Never mind! Took out 1 Gig of the RAM and re-booted. Everything started up
OK. Re-installed the Ram and booted successfully again. Now I just need to
re-install sound card, etc., and all will be well.
"Gatorsurg" wrote:
> Installed a water-cooling system on the rig yesterday. I have:
> ASUS A8n-SLi motherboard
> 2GB Corsair RAM
> NVidia GeForce 8800GTS g92
> Soundblaster Xi
> Seagate Barracuda 250GB HDD
>
> Everything worked like a charm on install and for 2 hours thereafter.
> Nothing got hot; no coolant leak anywhere. Played COD 4 on max settings.
>
> Then the blue screen of death. Re-booted, and windows would not boot. Bios
> recognized all the hardware, but Windows froze early in the boot process.
> Took out the HDD, tested it on another computer, and it worked fine; no
> problems with Windows. Have tried to re-boot from the Windows CD multiple
> times. It starts up, goes through the screen where it examines the sytem,
> then you see all those startup files and drivers loading, then it says
> "Starting Windows" at the bottom. Then the blue screen of death appears
> again and says:
>
> Driver_IRQL_NOT.LESS_OR_EQUAL
>
> At the bottom of the screen it says:
>
> Atapi.sys - Address F72E85ED Base at F72E 3000 Date Stamp 41107B4D
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
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