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Computer randomly freezes in win98se. help?!

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trek

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I have installed all of the latest drivers for everything, except for my sound card (MX400). Does anyone know where I can get newer drivers for it? I just put on Win98se and it still does it... it just locks up. anyone know how to fix this!??! please?
-Trek
 
read sig for system specs as for IRQ's, here.
EDIT: nothing is overclocked. i am pretty sure it is not heat realated, because Motherboard monitor says CPU temp is in the 30's.
-Trek
 
my sound card is next to my video card in the first PCI slot... the video card didn't have an IRQ before when the sound card was in the last PCI slot on the old install of windows either...
-Trek
 
hmm, move the soundcard from slot 1 & leave that slot free. check to see if your card has now been given an irq! 🙂
 


<< Can i just give it IRQ #3 in the BIOS? >>


slot 1 &amp; AGP slot shares the same irq. most AGP cards which require busmastering like to hog the irq for themself(with pci steering) &amp; not share with another busmastering card such as a soundcard. this is why I've suggested you leave slot 1 free &amp; hope that the videocard will takeup an irq.
 
I pulled out the sound card and put it in the 4th PCI slot and nothing changed except there is something on 3 now: &quot;SCI IRQ used by ACPI bus&quot; video card still has nothing.
-Trek
 
i had a similar problem when running video files (any video, avi/rm/mpg/asf/mov). i never found out why it randomly froze while playing. i installed win 98/win98se/winME which all conintued to keep freezing. finally win2000 did the job, so try win2000 if u cant figure out the problem
 
Thats when it most predictably freezes the most... i guess i will have to try windows 2000... thanks
-Trek
 
does your bios have an option called ASSIGN IRQ TO VGA &amp; if so, make sure that that is ENABLED. :frown:
also could you check your device manager in safe mode to see if there are multiple entries of any one device!
 
the video card thing you mentioned is enabled in BIOS and there are no doubles in device manager when i started in safe mode.
-Trek
 
is your card recognised corectly in device manager?
under directx diagnostic tool/display, is AGP support enabled?(start/run &amp; type dxdiag)
you could try lowering AGP transfers(if support is enabled) to x1!
 
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