BSOD Driver irql-not-less-or-equal usually during games

Hi, I get this BSOD usually while running games. It doesnt seem to occur during regular web usage. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have attached all Diagnostic reports, CPU-z captures, and RAMMon html into one handy-dandy zip file Seven Forums.zip

Again, thank you in advance

First catch your system BIOS up. From here ASUS - Motherboards- ASUS P5Q PRO looks like you are still running on the original BIOS Version.

Code:

BaseBoardManufacturer = ASUSTeK Computer INC.
BaseBoardProduct = P5Q-PRO
BaseBoardVersion = Rev 1.xx
BiosVendor = American Megatrends Inc.
BiosVersion = 1406   
BiosReleaseDate = 10/02/2008

Then tend to the following drivers

ASACPI.sys	3/27/2005	ASUS - Motherboards- ASUS P5Q PRO	Expand Utilities first one labeled ATK0110 Driver for WindowsXP/Vista/Win7 32&64-bit
lirsgt.sys	6/17/2008	TAGES, the AAA Copy Protection System	Copy Protection Tages SA update upgrade or uninstall
L1E62x64.sys	6/11/2009	ATHEROS drivers for Microsoft Windows (Atheros?????)	Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Network Adapter Driver
sptd.sys	10/11/2009	DuplexSecure - Downloads	Usually associated with Daemon Tools use the program in link to UNINSTALL get the correct version for your architecture

Code:

BugCheck 1A, {5003, fffff70001080000, 2e22d, 2e9b40005c449}
Probably caused by : ntkrnlmp.exe ( nt! ?? ::FNODOBFM::`string'+367fc )
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (1a)
    # Any other values for parameter 1 must be individually examined.
Arguments:
Arg1: 0000000000005003, The subtype of the bugcheck.
Arg2: fffff70001080000
Arg3: 000000000002e22d
Arg4: 0002e9b40005c449

If Blue Screens persist, attach new dump files here.

Ok, so this is what has transpired. I updated the BIOS and the ASACPI.sys. Once I did those two I got another BSOD. At that point I was having a lot of difficulty getting the system to boot up. I finally did this morning and figured it would be a good idea to get a dump right away. Unfortunately this is the message I get and cant get a new dump

Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit the application will close immediately.
Access to path 'C:\Windows\Minidump' is denied

Again, any help is appreciated

Anytime you update your systems BIOS there maybe some resetting of pre-configured settings so you may want to go into the BIOS and examine anything that you may have manually configured yourself. Additionally you may want to attempt to use one of the system pre-sets usually marked as Defaults, or Optimized or both or either. Additionally you want to make sure that your disk controller settings are configured properly and were not changed by the Flash Utility. Whether they were formerly set to AHCI or AHCI / RAID or NATIVE IDE, they will need to be returned to that setting in order for your system to boot reliably.
I really don't understand the error regarding the unhandled exception. Is that at startup or when you are in the process of navigating to the C:\Wiindows\minidump folder? If at startup, that may be a product of something loading or attempting to load that has become corrupt or is otherwise having some problems with its' file structure. You may want to examine the startup tab in msconfig to see what is loading.
The access denied error relating to the minidump folder is not unheard of and you may want to take ownership of the folder and its' contents to avoid the error. This may help with that Add "Take Ownership" to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Win 7 or Vista - How-To Geek

I got that message when I was using the SF Diagnostic Tool. Sorry about not being clear on that and thanks for the help.

I tried to Take Ownership, but its still giving the same error message.

Originally Posted by Kuma

I got that message when I was using the SF Diagnostic Tool. .

Since you managed to run it before I would assume you already know that you need to right click the executable and choose run as administrator.
You tried using the takeownership utility that I linked to above? Right clicked the folder and chose take ownership? And you still cannot open the minidump folder?

Ok, that was my screwup. The first time, when I did the original zip, I ran as admin. This time, i didnt but now I just did and here is the new zip that is up to date. Mind you, I have not done Tages, Atheros, or Duplex Secure. I did update the BIOS for the mobo and the ASACPI.sys, once I did those I got a BSOD and wanted to get a dump here before I updated those. Again, thank you, and I hope Im not being too much of a hassle.

OK, so where is it at?

Seven Forums.zipIve gone all sorts of stupid today, sorry about that here it is

You need to follow up on addressing the other driver issues that I mentioned above.
This dump seems to be indicating a problem with sptd.sys as I mentioned in an earlier post. This is usually associated with Daemon Tools or one of the Alcohol software products and you need to uninstall daemon tools and use the program found here to completely remove sptd.sys DuplexSecure - Downloads

Code:

BugCheck 1E, {ffffffffc0000005, fffff880053e56d2, 0, ffffffffffffffff}
Unable to load image \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\sptd.sys, Win32 error 0n2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for sptd.sys
fffff880`03e57000 fffff880`03e74000   serial   serial.sys   Mon Jul 13 19:00:40 2009 (4A5BCAA8)
fffff880`01610000 fffff880`01618000   spldr    spldr.sys    Mon May 11 11:56:27 2009 (4A0858BB)
fffff880`00ec2000 fffff880`00fe8000   sptd     sptd.sys     Sun Oct 11 15:55:14 2009 (4AD24632)
fffff880`07867000 fffff880`078fc000   srv      srv.sys      Thu Apr 28 22:13:05 2011 (4DBA2CC1)
fffff880`07800000 fffff880`07867000   srv2     srv2.sys     Thu Apr 28 22:12:51 2011 (4DBA2CB3)