[kossae]

Okay, first off I am new here so hello. I'm Kossae. I hope to be of great help to other people on this forum myself, but I found this place due to searching through this error on Google. For those unfamiliar with the error:

While working, randomly a blue screen pops up with the top stating "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" with a bunch of gibberish in the middle. Below it says "Starting Crash Dump" or something of the sort, and counts its way up to 100% before the computer restarts and works correctly upon starting windows again. However, this error still occurs every time when working in audio applications (as I do very regularly).


Anyway, through my research I seem to have found that people say this is due to memory problems, video card issues, or joysticks/peripherals. However, I have tried to fix all of these issues and I am still getting this error (namely when I am producing/mixing music in a more cpu intensive environment). I finally cracked open my IRQ list and found a RIDICULOUS amount of Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System entries. My screenshot posted is a horizontal cascade of all of the captures as I scroll down my IRQ list. Obviously this doesn't look too normal, and I was wanting some input before I did something like uninstall all of these.

http://www.kossaeproductions.com/crazy.jpg

My system specs are as follows:
Windows Vista 64-Bit Ultimate
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.30 GHz
4.00 GB DDR2 RAM
nVidia GeForce 6800 GS 256 Mb Card
1 SATA & 1 IDE Hard Drive (500Gb + 250 Gb respectively)

Like I said, the amount of these ACPI's looks somewhat abnormal to me, and I would think the large amount of them could be causing this blue screen. Memtest has shown no errors, and reinstalling drivers and whatnot yields no result. If anyone could help me out with this, I would be incredibly thankful, as it is ruining my workflow.

-Kossae

[Osiris]

What does the event viewer show? There is no pattern to this, its completely random correct?

This is usually a hardware or driver issue

[kossae]

Well if I had to be specific about a pattern, I own a Mackie Onyx Satellite audio interface. This interface uses ASIO drivers, and comes with its own set under Mackie ASIO which provides the lowest latency. However, sometimes when I switch to a default ASIO4All driver in the audio settings, this error occurs. Also if I am producing music in FLStudio using a cpu intensive Virtual Instrument, the system will lock up for a split second then show this error as well. For some reason the event log doesn't reveal any error related to this problem either. The closest one to the shutdown was:

The UPnP Device Host service depends on the SSDP Discovery service which failed to start because of the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

[Osiris]

Well then I would say its safe to assume that thats the culprit.

Is this it? Mackie - Satellite FireWire Recording System

Have you uninstalled and reinstalled updated software if available or simply reinstall the program/drivers, etc?

So as long as you arent running Mackie, everything is running just fine correct?

[kossae]

Wow, I feel ridiculously stupid for not even consider that being a problem. Upon driver reinstallation everything seems to be functioning correctly. Then again we will see how it goes when I'm working on an actual project. If I have any more problems I will post them back here for further review. Until then, thank you thank you thank you! haha.

[Osiris]

No problemo

[kossae]

It's starting again. Any other ideas for culprits? I've also gotten one that says BAD_POOL_CALLER as well. This is odd.. Could it be related to the screenshot i posted?

[Osiris]

Thats a driver problem more than likely from the hardware you installed