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nVidia software issues

demonbrawn

demonbrawn

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System Specs
System Name Sony Vaio - VGNFW390-CTO
Processor Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T9550 (2.66GHz)
Cooling Stock
Memory 4GB DDR2-SDRAM (DDR2-800, 2GBx2)
Video Card(s) ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3650 with 512MB vRAM (pitiful card)
Storage 320GB SATA Hard Disk Drive [7200 rpm]
Display(s) LCD 16.4" (XBRITE-FullHD™)
Audio Device(s) SupremeFX
Software Windows 7
Okay before installing nVidia software, my computer ran real smooth. Now, every once and a while I'll see this blue screen pop up for a split second and my computer will restart. However, just a minute ago my computer froze to that blue screen and it said something like certain software was aborted in order to avoid damage to the computer. Beneath that it said

Software_IRQ1_Less_Or_Equal

or something like that. What does that mean?
 
could be a reg error uninstall it do a disk clean up do a driver and reg clean up reboot and reinstall
 
Yeah, it's nVidia's software that did that. Uninstall everything that has to do with it, plus anything of your old drivers. Be sure to check the registry! Clear out temp and prefetch folders in Windows, restart with no drivers, and try again. If that doesn't work your motherboard is assigning two or more pieces of hardware to one IRQ assignment. If that's the case you need to go into your bios and make sure IRQ assignments are all set on AUTO. If that doesn't work you need to freeze your bios startup screen to see what assignments are being used, and set them manually. If you have to take it that far PM me and I can help you set them manually.
 
yeah, that's what I figured. Also, I thought my 3DMark06 score was kind of low for my setup being 8,769. I had SLI enabled and everything. I then disabled SLI just to see if there would be a score difference and there wasn't. Would cleaning up the software as listed above fix this issue?
 
Oh, and the message said Driver_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. got it wrong the first time
 
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