Recent content by Moonchild

Worked for me! I used to have a p2-400 with a GF2, everything worked fine. Upgraded to a amd 1gz and asus a7v mobo, and was getting random lockups in my games every 5 minutes or so. Turned out it was the MX-300 drivers. I changed to the last Vortex2 reference drivers, and I no longer have any...

You sure it's not something goofy like one of the game controls is alt-tab or something like that? How about the "windows" key? Are they accidentally hitting it? I play Tribes alot, and every once in a while I'll hit a particular key combo that will minimize tribes to the taskbar.

Aureal isn't even in business anymore, they got bought out by Creative I believe. Vortex 2 cards aren't really supported anymore. You might as well get a soundblaster.

Just wanted to give you guys a final update, it was definitely my soundcard. I changed the drivers from the Diamond MX-300 to the most recently released Aureal Vortex 2, and now everything is working good.

Well, saturnine was right on track! I didn't even have to remove my extra cards though. I was lazy and just disbled everything in device manager. I disabled my soundcard and what do you know! my movies and games worked. Tried moving the soundcard into a new slot, no change. Now I'm trying to...

Thanks, I'll try removing all cards tonight. No irq conflicts reported.

Help!! Symptoms: Random total lock-ups every 20 minutes or so. Lockup every time I try to play an .avi with media player, same with Realplayer. System hangs when trying to load the first mission of No One Lives Forever in opengl, never get past the loading screen. System hangs after playing...

I was reading on here that many people recommend removing the heatsink's thermal pad and using Arctic Silver. It looks like my AMD has a pad. Since I've got the retail CPU, should I change it around, or stick with what they gave me? I don't plan on overclocking in the future either.