Epox RDA3+ system having Sound trouble

Bariaeth

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Sep 11, 2003
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EPoX RDA3+
Athlon XP 2800+ Barton
Gainward GeForce FX5900 128mb
2x 512mb PC 2700 DDR
Windows XP Professional

When using both the C-Media AC'97 sound on the RDA3+ or my old SB Live! 5.1 card my system hangs when I try and do any action that produces sound (ie: play games, run winamp, etc). It either hangs immediately, or does so within a few seconds of the sound starting. My system will either simply stop responding (no HDD activity, keyboard non-functional and mouse cursor frozen). About half the time the hang is accompanied by a high-pitched whine from the speakers.

I'm assuming it's a MoBo problem because it happens with both the onboard sound and my SB card. Updated all the drivers for all my components, and all the windows updates.

Any ideas?
 

Bariaeth

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Sep 11, 2003
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Tried the BIOS update, no luck. Still happens.

After a reinstall of Windows some programs now take longer to trigger the hangup... Not sure what this could mean. Some proggy's its fast, other's its slow. They all still do it eventually...