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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: SunKing on September 28, 2005, 03:50:57 AM
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Here are my system specs.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor Socket 939 90nm Whin
Corsair TWINX1024-3200XLPRO 1GB Kit DDR400 XMS3200 Xtra-Low Latency Dual-Channel ProSeries 2-2-2-5
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce3 Ultra Athlon 64(FX) Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard
Thermalright XP-90 & Panaflo 80x25 Medium Fan
Western Digital Caviar SE WD2000JD 200GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
Antec TruePower TrueControl 550 550W ATX12 Power Supply Retail
ATI 9700pro
Win XP pro SP2
Omega 5.8 drivers
5.1 SBlive
nothing overclocked.
All my games will random crash/lock up my pc and at that very second do an eternal loop of the sound that the system crashed on.
I've tried lowering my sound hardware acceleration. Which didn't change anything.
What's the next step to troubleshoot this? Is it safe to say it could be a sound issue since the game will crash and loop till I manually reboot it..
This happens in Battlefield 2 and Day of Defeat 2 like clockwork everytime I play.
Any help's apperciated.
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I'm hardly a computer guru or anything but...
Did you check for a IRQ confict? Did you try removing the card, driver cleaning the sound drivers, and re-installing it?
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I try it using the onboard sound setup after yanking the sblive and it's drivers and reactivating the onboard setup and installing its drivers
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sometimes if you put the sound card in a slot that will conflict with another card .. basically also a irq or pci bus type of conflict ..
try a different pci slot for the sb card
your mb manual should say if this is a possiability.... sometimes
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Are you using a Marvell Yukon network adapter?
shamus
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Well I did some research and it seeems I'm a victim of ATI Cat drivers. With the new DOD:S game tons of people are getting crashes and some have said they experience the same errors in BF2. Guess I need to try every version of Cat drivers till something works starting with 5.3
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I'd use the 4.12 Cats for that old 9700.
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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
I'd use the 4.12 Cats for that old 9700.
Tride em all. Still get a lock up with sounds looping. Fustrating.
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Take the side off your case and let some air in. Blow a desk fan onto the innards. If the problem stops, get a new fan for your case and/or CPU.
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re-install all of your drivers....it's just a software issue. most likely a problem with direct-x
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yea it sorta points to a driver issue .. also check for mainboard updates also .
also check the amd forums to see if others are having the same problem ...
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When you say you "tried em all", does that mean you followed proper uninstall and new install procedures for every single different driver install? If not then you wasted your time.
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i got a AMD64 3500 and befor i put my water cooling in it was doing the same thing the stock heetsenk was not up to the job it sounds like to me its giting hot
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If you are using the Marvell Yukon adapter check to see if your driver is 8.35 if it is roll it back to a 7.xx or update to the 8.39.
Windows auto updated to the 8.35 a while back, it is broken.
same symptoms I was having.
shamus
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Have you tried sacraficing a goat?
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Sounds like a cooling issue as in, it ain't getting enough cooling. Seriously, games tend to demand more of your hardware and generate more heat.
Monitor your temperature before you play a game. Fire up a game and play it for 10 or 20 minutes (however long you know you can safely play before crashing). Alt+Tab out (or quit the game) and immediately check temperatures (video card, motherboard, CPU, ambient, etc.).
No matter the results, open the case and blow everything off, get lots of air flowing in there (I have even used house fans at times when dealing with cooling/heat issues).
Hope you get the problem solved.