IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Problem + Silicon raid issue

Hi everyone,
got 2 problems with a MSI K8N NEO 4 Platinum
when i play games (raven shield, prince of persia by example) everyone run fine and smooth, even for a long time. But windows crash each time i quit a game... (with an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error)
i used the SI controller to create a raid 5 group of 3 sata disk. Everything work fine, but 1 time by day SataRaid5 starts automatically a "restore redundaancy" task wich last 3 hours and slown down my computer due to huge disk access. And there's no way i can stop it. Why does it make this so often (because of the windows crash after i played ??.
my config :
- MSI K8N NEO 4 Platinum
- corsair twinx 1024 2x512 pc3200 xl
- alim fortron blue storm 500 W
- athlon 64 3200+
- video card : msi NX6600-td128e
- 3 x western digital 80 Go Sata WD800Jd
- XP Pro service pack 2
latest driver from nvidia (video + nforce), bios 1.1, same problem with some overclocking and with the bios default (try a lot of configuration, always the same)
thanks in adavnce, it's driving me nuts

thanks a lot brianstretch , no more windows crash
so great !!!
left me with 1 little problem left. Does someone know when did the silicon image controller start a test on the redundancy and if there's a way to cancel it ? search on www.siimage.com
http://www.siimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=28
but doesn't find a thing. So far i've used the drivers provided on the msi site. Will try to download the one from siimage.com site (the raid 5 one and the mnagement utility)
thx again brian

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The cause of the problem is that in order to be PC Compatible, the Option Rom space is limited to 128K. This is true for any motherboard with PC compatible BIOS.
In the common configurations, a newer AGP card (such as a Geforce 4) will require 64K of option ROM space, so you have only 64K of option ROM space left to work with. Many SCSI, NIC with PXE, IDE RAID etc. can easily use another 40-64K of option ROM space.
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