Hey all,
me again with what will hopefully be my last "beg for help" post in a while.
System specs:
AMD64 3200 winchester
1GB OCZ PC3500 EB ram
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
6800GT
Windows XP
I'm currently experienceing two seperate issues taht are really bugging me. The first is that I can't seem to get my sound to work. I tried downloading the latest nforce3 drivers from the nvidia website - nada. dxdiag won't even see a sound card when I use those. Tried using the realtech driver from the MSI website, nothign going. dxdiag recognizes a soudn card with these drivers however I don't hear any sounds. Perhaps this would be better posted on the MSI site?
My second problem is the REALLy annoying one. I bring my brand new PC to my familys' house in perfect working order (24K 3dmark01, etc). In less than two days its messed up. I open counterstrike source or WOW and i get stutters, my fps drops down to like 0 then steps up back to 160 after a couple of seconds. Very irritating when it was running completley smoothly before. I look at my processes in the task manager and notice some program called "mainap" that is using 70-99% of my CPU constantly.I end the process only to have it restart again a split second later. It must be some kind of virus but both norton and PCcillin don't see it.
If anyone has any ideas on how to fix either of these two problems, I'd really appreciate any help. I don't mind formatting my computer, but I'm not going to do that untill I figure out whats wrong with my sound. Like I said, any help is appreciated, thanks.
me again with what will hopefully be my last "beg for help" post in a while.
System specs:
AMD64 3200 winchester
1GB OCZ PC3500 EB ram
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
6800GT
Windows XP
I'm currently experienceing two seperate issues taht are really bugging me. The first is that I can't seem to get my sound to work. I tried downloading the latest nforce3 drivers from the nvidia website - nada. dxdiag won't even see a sound card when I use those. Tried using the realtech driver from the MSI website, nothign going. dxdiag recognizes a soudn card with these drivers however I don't hear any sounds. Perhaps this would be better posted on the MSI site?
My second problem is the REALLy annoying one. I bring my brand new PC to my familys' house in perfect working order (24K 3dmark01, etc). In less than two days its messed up. I open counterstrike source or WOW and i get stutters, my fps drops down to like 0 then steps up back to 160 after a couple of seconds. Very irritating when it was running completley smoothly before. I look at my processes in the task manager and notice some program called "mainap" that is using 70-99% of my CPU constantly.I end the process only to have it restart again a split second later. It must be some kind of virus but both norton and PCcillin don't see it.
If anyone has any ideas on how to fix either of these two problems, I'd really appreciate any help. I don't mind formatting my computer, but I'm not going to do that untill I figure out whats wrong with my sound. Like I said, any help is appreciated, thanks.