Hercules Fortissimo III causes PC Freeze on 1st sounds

[samajm]

Just ironed out some annoying motherboard issues and am now facing a final problem with my soundcard. The drivers install normally but at the first bit of audio of any kind the PC completely freezes. I can actually hear a blip of the sound to begin with before the lockup. PLEASE HELP! This is the last issue keeping my PC from running like a tank again.
I have tried every PCI slot, new and old drivers and the AC97 onboard sound is disabled. When enabled the onboard sounds works fine.

Win XP w/SP2
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
RADEON 9700 PRO (Omega 2.5.97a)
DirectX 9.0c
Mach Speed V600DAP Mobo
Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo III 7.1
Seagate 120GB ST3120026A IDE
1GB Rosewill PC3200 (2x512mb)
Thermaltake Purepower 420W

 

[montag451]

What does the event log show?
Include the SOURCE, EVENT ID and the text that goes with it

 

[samajm]

hmmm, nothing that appears overtly obvious. I tried doing a speaker test at 7:39:06AM. PC Froze and I had to hit the restart button to reboot. This was the first event that came up, the other 3 were the start of the event log - my Antivir clearing the filecache and then beginning to filer.



Event Type: Information
Event Source: EventLog
Event Category: None
Event ID: 6009
Date: 2/13/2005
Time: 7:40:06 AM
User: N/A
Computer: STEVECO
Description:
Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 5.01. 2600 Service Pack 2 Uniprocessor Free.

 

[montag451]

That just informs you that event logging has started.

Any '!' ?

 

[samajm]

I know that's what I was saying, nothing apparently related to the freeze. At any sound from any source the entire PC locks up and the only way to get it back up is to hit the reset button. Nothing showing in the event log related to this.
thanks for any help you can give

 

[daveybrat]

Are you using the drivers from the cd that came with it? Or have you tried downloading the newest ones yet?

Try the newest drivers from their site and if those still don't work, try moving it to a different pci slot.