i have a Dell 6400, running XP with SP3, which has been rock solid for 5 years even when running heavy load apps.<\/p>\n
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) appeared about 3 months ago, and has been repeating almost daily since, and my sound is skippy\/crappy.<\/p>\n
– system idle process is always high, typically 50-97% of CPU load, which is understandable if there are no other apps active HOWEVER when I intentionally open multiple heavy apps such as Photoshop, Maximizer and MS Access in quick succession, and the CPU use spikes to 90-95% capacity (as expected), system idle process still hogs the vast majority of the CPU use and leaves maybe 10-20% for all the other apps.
\n– i opened my task manager and listened to a MP3 file. System idle process was always high (as per above) and the sound ‘skipping’ increased proportionally with CPU load, which was being hogged by the system idle process<\/p>\n
– i downloaded and ran the MS SDK debug program on the BSOD mini-dump file. This revealed … “unable to load image ntoskrnl.exe”, “Unable to load image portcls.sys”, and “Unable to load image sthda.sys” Since the latter 2 are audio related I uninstalled my audio driver and re-installed the latest version
\n– i updated my Bios to the latest version
\n– i ran chkdsk and it was error free
\n– my system is virus free – i run Norton scans frequently<\/p>\n
I’ve spent a couple of days googling to solve this. Any help would be appreciated, txs, Robert<\/p>\n
Bug details follow
\n* Bugcheck Analysis *
\n* *
\n*******************************************************************************<\/p>\n
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)
\nAn attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an
\ninterrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually
\ncaused by drivers using improper addresses.
\nIf kernel debugger is available get stack backtrace.
\nArguments:
\nArg1: 88858fbb, memory referenced
\nArg2: 00000002, IRQL
\nArg3: 00000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation
\nArg4: 85a0e017, address which referenced memory<\/p>\n
Debugging Details:
\n——————<\/p>\n
READ_ADDRESS: 88858fbb<\/p>\n
CURRENT_IRQL: 2<\/p>\n
FAULTING_IP:
\n+1244
\n85a0e017 8588988f8588 test dword ptr [eax-777A7068h],ecx<\/p>\n
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1<\/p>\n
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT<\/p>\n
BUGCHECK_STR: 0xD1<\/p>\n
PROCESS_NAME: Idle<\/p>\n
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from aa630a3b to 85a0e017<\/p>\n
STACK_TEXT:
\nWARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong.
\n805512b0 aa630a3b 872ca2a8 805513fc aa661edb 0x85a0e017
\n805512bc aa661edb 875d61c0 872ca2a8 aa661d11 portcls!CPortWaveCyclic::Notify+0xe
\n805513fc 8050232b 8055c0c0 ffdff9c0 ffdff000 sthda+0xeedb
\n80551428 80545eef 8055c4c0 00000000 0006b8a0 nt!KiFindFirstSetRight+0x9b
\nffdff980 8055c4c4 f79a5000 000c84a8 00000002 nt!ExpCheckForResource+0x7
\nffdff98c 00000000 80551440 00000001 000c84a8 nt!MiPageFileTraces+0x1244<\/p>\n
STACK_COMMAND: kb<\/p>\n
FOLLOWUP_IP:
\nportcls!CPortWaveCyclic::Notify+e
\naa630a3b ?? ???<\/p>\n
SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1<\/p>\n
SYMBOL_NAME: portcls!CPortWaveCyclic::Notify+e<\/p>\n
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner<\/p>\n
MODULE_NAME: portcls<\/p>\n
IMAGE_NAME: portcls.sys<\/p>\n
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 48025ccc<\/p>\n
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0xD1_portcls!CPortWaveCyclic::Notify+e<\/p>\n
BUCKET_ID: 0xD1_portcls!CPortWaveCyclic::Notify+e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":17},"question-category":[76],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3134","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-xp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}