Just upgraded, now freeze every 10-20 minutes

[Moonchild]

Help!!

Symptoms: Random total lock-ups every 20 minutes or so. Lockup every time I try to play an .avi with media player, same with Realplayer. System hangs when trying to load the first mission of No One Lives Forever in opengl, never get past the loading screen. System hangs after playing Tribes in both opengl and glide after 15-20 minutes.

My system: Asus A7V with 1005C bios, latest VIA, AGP turbo driver
Asus v7700 GF2 GTS, tried many driver versions(7.17,6.31,647,etc)
DX 8
Diamond MX-300 sound
Diamon Monster V2
Netgear NIC
256MB of pc133 cas 2 Crucial ram

Windows 98SE

Bios: all power savings disabled, fast writes disabled, agp aperture tried 128, 64, and 16.

Does anybody have any ideas? I'm thinking of reinstalling windows and going back to DX 7. I might also try WinME if that doesn't work.

Any help is appreciated!

 

[saturnine]

start by removing all cards you dont need to run the sys. ie; nic sound modem

just run it with your vid card. be sure to remove any device drivers that come with the cards you remove try running as bare as posible. then if it works, add a card and try again

if it doesnt work with just rthe vid card, try diff ram

this is just my .02

gl

 

[TonyT]

Any IRQ conflicts in Windows?

 

[Moonchild]

Thanks, I'll try removing all cards tonight.

No irq conflicts reported.

 

[BadThad]

These are tuff! I was having an issue with media player freezing on mpg's awhile back, got the same problem with real player. Also, certain 3D games wouldn't play without freezing. I spent weeks trying to pin it down, it turned out to be my stinking video driver. I, like you, tried several drivers for the card I had then, GeForce SDR.

I would continue the quest for the magic vid driver, believe it or not.

 

[Moonchild]

Well, saturnine was right on track! I didn't even have to remove my extra cards though. I was lazy and just disbled everything in device manager. I disabled my soundcard and what do you know! my movies and games worked.

Tried moving the soundcard into a new slot, no change. Now I'm trying to find some Vortex 2 drivers that are not by Diamond.

 

[crash2much]

As soon as I started reading your post I knew you had a Geoforce 2 card. Good luck. Anyway, try reinstalling the Via drivers, but lose the 'Turbo Mode" for the AGP port. Your sacrificing stability for speed, and the Geoforce dosen't need Via's help there. Also, does your northbrigde have a heat sink on it?

 

[Moonchild]

Just wanted to give you guys a final update, it was definitely my soundcard. I changed the drivers from the Diamond MX-300 to the most recently released Aureal Vortex 2, and now everything is working good.