Win2k, blue screen.. irqs?.. video.. memory problem

Hi. I've been recently having problems with watching .avi's using windows media player v7.01. The problem usually occurs with full length movies. After playing for say.. 30min + it would crash, or if I slide the slider bar around to skip some scenes a lot, it would crash. Now when it does crash.. it just freezes if I'm not playing it in full screen mode. When in full screen mode, it gives me a blue screen with this text at the top..

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*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0xFFBFF000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x001315E9)

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Beginning dump of physical memory

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Anyone have any idea what's causing this... or what I can do to fix it ? Thanks mucho.

 

It sounds like a buffer timing issue and I found this link that has information that should help: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/862567530005F09F862569A5004EC871?OpenDocument

Let us know how you make out.

 

Hey thanks. It sure sounds like a solution to me... except I don't where the old file is located, to replace it with this new one. I tried a search on my system.. but the only one I found was the gpibpci.sys that I downloaded. Should I just stick it in a system folder somewhere?

 

If you are having the problem without it then it must not be causing the problem you are having. So delete the file you downloaded. Here's a link to a Microsoft article on the subject: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q293077

Good luck and Happy Holidays.

 

Hi again, hope everyone had a nifty holiday.

That post seems to point at using verifier.exe to fix the problem.. but I have no idea what any of the controls in the program is. It says to disable a lot of things, my computer already has everything disabled... at least in the Settings tab > Verification status. It's still crashing lots...

Could it be a bad memory stick? Or are all these addresses and memory that they're talking about, hard drive memory?

Anywho, thanks so far for looking up those pages, appreciate it.

 

I had a very merry Christmas, thank you.

I re-read the MS article and I found another article that should help you on the Driver Verifier, here's the Link: http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7206&Key=Internals

It appears to the problem is related to memory paging and IRQLs.

The link give all the details. It states, you use the Verifier GUI (\%systemroot%\system32\verifier.exe) to configure the Verifier and view statistics about operations that the Verifier code executing in the kernel makes.

But I think your problem may caused by your paging file, which is corrupted and/or fragmented badly. The problem may be fix by formatting the drive partition and re-installing Windows 2000 and all your applications. Anothe option is run Disk Cleanup, disabling page caching (which will release the space), and run Scandisk, and Defrag from MS-DOS mode (which will clean things up). Then enable paging.

Good luck and Happy New Year.