Hello, I'm not sure if this is in the right section, if not please move it.

Ok, so, I've been trying to install Windows XP professional edition. Whenever it got to formatting, it would give me an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error with 0x000000A. I finally NARROWED the problem down to my processor's L1 cache. I turned that off, and everything worked fine.

However, without the L1 cache, I find my COMPUTER to be extremely slow. Is there any way that I could enable it again without causing the BSoD?

My system:
Motherboard: Asus A7V8X-X (BIOS flashed to version 1013)
Processor: AMD Athlon ~2.1 GHz
Video Card: ATI RADEON 9550
Everything Else: onboard or integrated.

Thanks for your help

EDIT: I didn't post this in the hardware section because I had multiple other OS's and having L1 cache enabled worked fine with them. (Various Linux and BSD distributions). So I am thinking that this is definitely a Windows problem.hi, try this...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms793589.aspx

goodLuck! spiderThanks for the help, though I've already looked at that link

But, it did work (the part about disabling the cache in the BIOS). My problem is, that I need that cache, otherwise my computer is too slow to work with.If the OS install went fine that MAY be the only issue with the cache...try re-enabling it and see how things run.