Edit: memory and/or the second sound card appear to be damaged, need assistance with identifing what is damaged. More info 2 posts down. [/edit]
Summary: I think a bad sound card shorted out my mobo/cmos/bios/something...
About a month ago I was trying to connect my AIW Radeon's internal audio out to my SB Live's internal tv in connector, without success, in doing so, I think I created a short on the sound card.
When trying to boot my system, about 50% of the time it refused to even post, when it did, windows would boot fine and run for up to 30 minutes without any problems (sound and video card both working), but then I would get either a system hang, or a reboot, which failed to post.
I then tried swapping out the video card or sound card with another, assuming one of the two had been somehow damaged when I was working with them...conclusion: sound card was causing the problem...get new sound card.
This worked fine for the last month, until I started having sound card related problems with the new no-name sound card I got to replace it, unable to access the mixer, some programs needing sound stopped working, even though windows was playing system sounds and such, very odd. After no success trying different driver sets, I thought I would try out the sb live card, figuring the worst that could happen was a repeat of previous problems...
Swap in sb live card, windows detects, restarts, windows restarts, blue screening (in XP RC2, almost unheard of to my knowledge, I had been running XP since beta 2 with never such an occurence) and then rebooting, failing to post. I figured this was just verifing my theory that the sb live card was dead, but figured it couldn't hurt to try...on the next reboot I got an error saying the CMOS had been reset (which it had), so I reset everything in cmos, rebooted, and haven't been able to get a post since...
Did this bad card kill my board, or could there be another problem I'm missing? (new cmos battery, anything else...?)
Summary: I think a bad sound card shorted out my mobo/cmos/bios/something...
About a month ago I was trying to connect my AIW Radeon's internal audio out to my SB Live's internal tv in connector, without success, in doing so, I think I created a short on the sound card.
When trying to boot my system, about 50% of the time it refused to even post, when it did, windows would boot fine and run for up to 30 minutes without any problems (sound and video card both working), but then I would get either a system hang, or a reboot, which failed to post.
I then tried swapping out the video card or sound card with another, assuming one of the two had been somehow damaged when I was working with them...conclusion: sound card was causing the problem...get new sound card.
This worked fine for the last month, until I started having sound card related problems with the new no-name sound card I got to replace it, unable to access the mixer, some programs needing sound stopped working, even though windows was playing system sounds and such, very odd. After no success trying different driver sets, I thought I would try out the sb live card, figuring the worst that could happen was a repeat of previous problems...
Swap in sb live card, windows detects, restarts, windows restarts, blue screening (in XP RC2, almost unheard of to my knowledge, I had been running XP since beta 2 with never such an occurence) and then rebooting, failing to post. I figured this was just verifing my theory that the sb live card was dead, but figured it couldn't hurt to try...on the next reboot I got an error saying the CMOS had been reset (which it had), so I reset everything in cmos, rebooted, and haven't been able to get a post since...
Did this bad card kill my board, or could there be another problem I'm missing? (new cmos battery, anything else...?)
