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Yousuf Khan wrote:
> 
> "Michael" <cmgoh@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
> news:3c27111e$0$3483@echo-01.iinet.net.au...
> > A friend of mine just upgraded to an Athlon XP 1600 with Epox 8KHA+
> > motherboard, 256Mb DDR RAM and Geforce 2 MX video card and using WinXP
> > (unknown if it is home or professional).
> >
> > He has the following error
> >
> > "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR EQUAL"
> >
> > sometimes when quiting games and try to get back to desktop..happends to
> > Wolfenstein, Civ3 and Ghost Recon
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?  Any solutions?
> 
> Here's your answer:
>
> 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdocID%3dKC.Q311564%26dialogID%3d6977583%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonymous%7c5018736
> 
> Make sure that under WinXP that he's using the DetonatorXP drivers.
> You can get them at the Nvidia site.

Awfully weak answer from Microsoft. 

Mike, you didn't mention it, but does your friend have a SB Live! series
soundcard installed?  I received that exact same error before I removed
mine and replaced it with a TB Santa Cruz.  Voila, no more problems.  A
SB Audigy would work too.  This is a known fault with the Live! series,
VIA chipset boards are less tolerant of that fault than others.  Easy
enough to test this by removing the card and reenabling onboard audio. 

There's been a considerable number of messages from frustrated nVidia
users on microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (all chipsets, Intel and
AMD), which I haven't followed too closely because I run Radeons (8500
currently, highly recommended).  It appears to be a nVidia driver
problem IIRC. 
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