- Apr 2, 2003
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Computer in sig, Vista x64 SP1. NVidia 174 drivers. Latest motherboard bios.
I was having extremely intermittent lockups (once every couple weeks, sometimes closer together, sometimes a month) and since it was so minor I decided I would just ignore it. What would happen is without any warning of any kind, the mouse would freeze in place and the system would hang. If this occurred while I was away, the system would just sit in a state as if it were asleep and unable to wake. Nothing would be logged to event viewer, no blue screen, no error of any kind. Just a sudden hang.
I finally decide I'm annoyed and go for audio driver updates (Creative's latest), video driver updates, and a bios update to the latest version. Haven't had one of those lockups since...but got a new one.
Twice now while playing video games (Warcraft III and just now Assassin's Creed), shortly after launching the game (5 minutes?) the screen "stutters" for a moment, goes black, and the most recent lockup had a two-tone beep (from my speakers, no PC speaker is present). First a low tone, then a high tone. Both were very short and in immediate succession. Again, no event viewer log of course, and it seemed as if the system itself were partially responsive for a few seconds after the screen went (HD access light was active and sound continued for about 10 seconds) unlike the prior lockups.
Basically, I'm not sure what is wrong. I do a fair amount of video encoding and that taxes all four cores of the CPU to very high levels for extremely long sustained times without any stability issues as a direct result of the encode. Normal use of over 4GB of RAM does not result in any aberrant behavior until I try to launch a video game.
Can the 8800GTX spit an error out over the speakers? The X-Fi?
I was having extremely intermittent lockups (once every couple weeks, sometimes closer together, sometimes a month) and since it was so minor I decided I would just ignore it. What would happen is without any warning of any kind, the mouse would freeze in place and the system would hang. If this occurred while I was away, the system would just sit in a state as if it were asleep and unable to wake. Nothing would be logged to event viewer, no blue screen, no error of any kind. Just a sudden hang.
I finally decide I'm annoyed and go for audio driver updates (Creative's latest), video driver updates, and a bios update to the latest version. Haven't had one of those lockups since...but got a new one.
Twice now while playing video games (Warcraft III and just now Assassin's Creed), shortly after launching the game (5 minutes?) the screen "stutters" for a moment, goes black, and the most recent lockup had a two-tone beep (from my speakers, no PC speaker is present). First a low tone, then a high tone. Both were very short and in immediate succession. Again, no event viewer log of course, and it seemed as if the system itself were partially responsive for a few seconds after the screen went (HD access light was active and sound continued for about 10 seconds) unlike the prior lockups.
Basically, I'm not sure what is wrong. I do a fair amount of video encoding and that taxes all four cores of the CPU to very high levels for extremely long sustained times without any stability issues as a direct result of the encode. Normal use of over 4GB of RAM does not result in any aberrant behavior until I try to launch a video game.
Can the 8800GTX spit an error out over the speakers? The X-Fi?
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