IRQ conflict crashes ahhhh

[FortisVir]

Ok, since this is the one of the few forums I actually post in, I thought I'd ask this question here.

3 days ago I bought tron 2.0. I get past the first mission and in the next cutscene, everyones voice is all slow-mo and so are the sound effects. When I quit the game the computer crashes. I try again and the voices are screwed up and the computer crashes when I quit.

The next thing I do is disable automatic shutdown so I can actually see what the problem is. I get the message DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Ok, so now I know its an IRQ conflict problem. I go into system info and find that a couple things are sharing the same IRQ, like my network card and video card, and my sound card and usb controller.

But, even when I disable sharing devices like my USB controller and my ethernet card, the game still screws up. I have tried messing around in the BIOS and after that setting the values to default but nothing works.

Whats really frustrating is that I am 90% sure that I know what the problem is - IRQ conflict. But I just can't find any way to change IRQ's for my video card without changing its slot, but I can't do that because my mobo just has one agp slot.

I have a radeon 9800 np with a jetway 533 fsb p4mdpt mobo. I also have a 2.4 ghz P4 with 768 mb of crucial ddr 2100 RAM. I have used the latest version of memtest, my memory is not corrupted. I am using my onboard c-media ac97 sound controller for uhhh....sound. Also - I have Award BIOS 6.000

From what I have seen there is a major conflict between my VIA cpu to agp controller and my radeon. If I could just change IRQ's around maybe I could fix this problem. After looking through my BIOS, the registry, google, device manager, I have found no way to change IRQ's for my video card or anything else besides a modem.

So.....

Does anyone know how to change video card IRQ's? (Is it even possible?)
Should I update my BIOS?
Is there anything at all I can ****ing do?

(Sorry for the long rambling post)

 

[Asus]

I have a nForce2 motherboard for AMD and there is an option to reset and redetect IRQs for hardware. Is there one for your board? I don't remember what the option is called and I don't have time right now to check the Bios for the Option.

Can you disable USB or onboard sound and use a sound card instead? I would try it with those 2 disabled in bios and see if you get the same error.

 

[FortisVir]

Well, i sort of fixed the problem.

Since all the voices were all slo-mo I figured something was wrong with my crappy onboard sound but I wasn't sure because of the via cpu and radeon conflicts I noticed.

I turned hardware acceleration all the way down to none (for my sound card) and so far tron hasn't crashed and everything is running fine.

You know, I've learned more about computers from troubleshooting annoying hardware and software problems than from anything else.

Happy New Years everyone, and thanks for the reply Asus.

 

[jonbob]

I thought you might like to know that the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message has nothing to do with IRQ's. This message is generally produced when a process tries to write to memory that it isn't allowed to - faulty drivers or software usually cause it.