Help with my computer, it keeps locking up on me.

[Yeeny]

Everytime I try to run my webcam, my computer freezes within ten minutes of opening it. I cannot run a server in Counterstrike without the same thing happening to me, and it also happens when I am playing on someone else's server. Sometimes it just freezes, sometimes it restarts by itself. And sometimes when it freezes, it lets out this high pitched squeal. I have tried reinstalling everything, using Windows 98, ME and Win2k, with all the same end result.

My specs are:

900 mhz TBird
256 mgs of ram
30 gig HD
Nvidia GEForce 256
onboard sound, since my Soundblaster Live Value just makes the problem worse when I install it.

I really do not know what else to do, I have only had it a month and it is really frustrating me. I am sure it is just one little thing that I have missed. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[Imaginer]

Did the webcam did this?

Did you try newer drivers for the operating systems? I know my webcam (crappy POS) never had problems under win98 but everytime I run it's capturing program it reboots in win2k.

 

[Yeeny]

It seems to be anything either sound or video related that does it to me. Because it will even lock up with Winamp or WinDVD playing. I have the latest drivers for my camera and everything else, even my motherboard. But it still keeps doing it.

 

[Imaginer]

I wonder if it could be a conflict between your sound card IRQ? Have you tried switching slots?

 

[RedShirt]

What motherboard do you have?

 

[Yeeny]

I don't have a sound card installed, I use onboard sound. And my motherboard is a AOpen AK-73.

 

[RedShirt]

Do you have two cards sharing the same IRQ? There may be a conflict, but windows just doesn't know it.

 

[Yeeny]

I have alot of them sharing, so I took a screen shot. That way I could not type something wrong.

 

[RedShirt]

Try changing the slot in which your Ethernet Controller is in. That seems to be the only thing that looks like it could be a problem with IRQ's