What the hell do IRQ's have to do with crashing prime 95?

[DevilsRejection]

I'm in the process of stability testing my system and prime 95 makes it bsod, the funny part is the bsod says IRQ NOT EQUAL TO LESS or something silly like that.

what do irq'a have anything to do with this?

have any of you encountered this? solutions?

[Jamo]

i've encountered this when my system is clocked too high, but never in prime, usually occurs in 3d apps like games and 3d mark, does it only occur in prime?

if you havn't already try disabling everything you dont need in bios such as usb ports, parallel port, floppy controller etc... as these all use IRQ's

[enzoR]

thats strange... doe prime keep running or the moment u run prime your systems bsod's?

[Pomme]

i get that BSOD when my cpu is clocked to high ... guess it means 'up the voltage or die' ;)

[situman]

yup usually ur mem cant handle the overclock or the cpu is clocked too high. Either raise voltage or slightly lower overclock.

[DevilsRejection]

well after a 24 hour burn in session i can run at 2.6 with only 1.7V as opposed to 1.8V.

At midnight or so it will hit the 24 hour prime stable + 3dmark looping.

Now because I am greedy I will try 246x11 which should give me 2.7 Ghz