Here's my system:
ECS K7S5A
Athlon xp 1600
2x 256 Crucial pc133
Radeon 9500pro
Ok, so I did a fresh install of XP when I first installed the 9500. Had no problems for a while, but now, when I play games it crashes. I've really only been playing Jedi Outcast and BF1942. It always crashes the same way. Total freeze, with either a looping of the sound last played at the freeze or almost like a high pitched sound that loops. It seemed to get progressively worse too. Like I said, no problems in the beginning, then it would do it every now and then, and now it will do it before I've even started playing the game (at game menu, inside the game). I thought maybe it was the sound. I am using the soundblaster live, and felt like I was getting unusual pops and crackles, so I moved it to another pci slot and uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers. Well, while I was moving the sound card, I realized that my psu is only 250 watts. I know that ATI recommends at least 300w. I thought that this may also be the problem. I only have one hard drive and one cdrw, and of course, the vid card. It was only games but then the other day I tried to watch a particularly long and somewhat high def. movie file that I had dloaded and my pc crashed the same way. Never done it with anything else but games, and has never done this with any other movie files. So...Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I know a little about pc's but not enought to figure this out. Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.
ECS K7S5A
Athlon xp 1600
2x 256 Crucial pc133
Radeon 9500pro
Ok, so I did a fresh install of XP when I first installed the 9500. Had no problems for a while, but now, when I play games it crashes. I've really only been playing Jedi Outcast and BF1942. It always crashes the same way. Total freeze, with either a looping of the sound last played at the freeze or almost like a high pitched sound that loops. It seemed to get progressively worse too. Like I said, no problems in the beginning, then it would do it every now and then, and now it will do it before I've even started playing the game (at game menu, inside the game). I thought maybe it was the sound. I am using the soundblaster live, and felt like I was getting unusual pops and crackles, so I moved it to another pci slot and uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers. Well, while I was moving the sound card, I realized that my psu is only 250 watts. I know that ATI recommends at least 300w. I thought that this may also be the problem. I only have one hard drive and one cdrw, and of course, the vid card. It was only games but then the other day I tried to watch a particularly long and somewhat high def. movie file that I had dloaded and my pc crashed the same way. Never done it with anything else but games, and has never done this with any other movie files. So...Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I know a little about pc's but not enought to figure this out. Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.
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