Computer Crashing

[alea35]

my computer has been crashing when i play games.when i use no sound card it works good.but when i use a sound card it freezes about 5 minutes into any game.i tried my aureal sound card and my onboard sound. i already checked the irq and my graphics card is on a different irq.any ideas?

system specs:
athlon xp 1700+
Ecs K7S5A
Aureal sq1500 or onboard sound
Aopen Geforce4 ti4200 128 mb
384 mb ram pc133
hsp modem
16x dvd drive
windows xp sp1 final

 

[ScrapSilicon]

did it ever play sound correctly playing games? ..noticed this also..

windows xp sp1 final

when did you install that?

 

[alea35]

when i think about it i dont think it ever did play games without freezing.even with my tnt2.i installed sp1 final like 2 days ago.i think its some conflict but i dont know where.i think it would last a little longer before frezzing before i installed sp1.but it still crashes.would getting a creative card cooperate with my setup better?

 

[TravisT]

I got that same motherboard for a system i built about 6 months ago. We had problems getting the onboard sound to work at all at first (BIOS setting (duh)) anyhow, after getting the latest drivers for all of the hardware on the system, we had no problems with it. As far as I know (I sold it to a guy I work with) the PC runs fine with any games or software. Here are the system specs:

Athlon XP 1900+
K7S5A Mobo
Maxtor 60Gig HD
Geforce4 440MX Video Card

It had some other stuff in it, but as you can see, my system was very similar to the one you have. You may just try looking for the most recent drivers. I know nVidia has some new drivers out that is supposed to increase performance quite a bit.

 

[TD77077]

Alea,

A LOT of people have reported problems with this MB when using more than one stick of SDRAM. You listed 384M which must be two sticks. Try running with just the 256M stick and see if you still have problems.

Cheers

 

[alea35]

hey thats exactly what someone on another board told me.and it does work.but hopefully they will fix it sometime soon.thanks for the help guys

 

[HumbleFish]

Go to the DirectX Utility and turn down the Sound "Hardware Acceleration" to Basic... It works for me in Win98.