Was attempting a rip with GK last night (nothing else running), and woke to find my pc had shut down to the following message;

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Tried looking through windows support files, but they're just spitting jargon at me that I don't understand.
Has anyone come across this who can put the problem in plain English, or offer any advice on how to solve the problem?

try it again.

welcome to the world of windows.=P

That problem used to be REALLY common with Nvidia Gfx cards, Via chipsets and windows XP, especially if you're overclocking.

Are you using the lates drivers for Gfx card and Motherboard ?

Yup, Downloaded and burned the latest drivers before installing the new drive/XP a few days ago.

Motherboard is Via, latest via 4 in 1 installed.
Nvidia GF3, latest driver from Nvidia website installed.

I'm not overcolocking anything, so that won't be the problem.
It has just happened again though, this time with AutoGK.
Worked fine on my first rip attempt, and that was with emule running too. Only things changed on my system since are installs of Fairuse and GK proper.

I've reference the error details and found the source to be usbport.sys that's causing some of these shutdowns at least.

The problem I have now, is that I can't update the usb drivers to fix this. Currently their running on xp installed drivers dated 2001, but I don't appear to be able to overwrite these with anything.
The latest via usb drivers fail to install, despite claiming to be xp compatible and no newer MS drivers seem to be available.

Can someone with a via chipset check their usb drivers to see what I should be running?
They're built onto the motherboard (kt7a).

I've read that newer 4in1 drivers could cause trouble with older via chipsets. I'm using an old Asus KT333 motherboard in my server.. I never bothered to install 4in1 since an older (and fully working) version is included within WinXP.

However, there's a patch on the motherboard CD that fixes something with USB2. Dunno what it does really, but if you want, i could dig it up for you.

Edit: http://w1.486.telia.com/~u48603906/drivers.zip

Upgrade your NIC drivers too...

Cheers Death, but no luck. I know about that patch already, but it won't install.

@Graag....I don't have a network card installed, my broadband is usb.

I've also done some searching and found it could be due to irq conflicts. Gonna try that first, as I appear to have both usb ports, my graphics card and my sound card all sharing irq 5.

Fixed the shared irq problem and that has indeed stopped the error I was receiving.

Unfortunately, I'm still reseting, just with a different message that is soooo long, it scrolls off the important info I need at the top
All I got was this part:
STOP 0*100000C5

I got one of these buggers every time I send a lot of data via mysql + php on my localhard drive. Very annoying