Random Freezes

[DJSfurry]

Hi guys. It'd be great to get some help on some recent issues ive been having. I'll start off with when this problem first started showing up. About 2 days ago i downloaded 2 south parks using bittorrent and whilst watching the first one, about a third of the way in, my computer just suddenly locked up and theres a sound being emitted from my speakers, high pitched but not near the extent of being painful to my ears.

I restarted my computer and then went back assuming nothing was wrong and carried on from where it froze at. minutes later, the same high pitched squeeking sound and my computer has frozen again. I delete both copies of south park thinking that may be the problem, and then proceed to doing some homework using microsoft word. Within about 2 minutes my computer freezes again and did so 3 more times within minutes of rebooting.

Now this all happened starting around sunday and its now wednesday. i have been able to play games, talk on msn and all of that just fine, but windows media player and microsoft word (both happen to be from microsoft) are freezing whenever i use them. Ive run spybot search and destroy and it didnt turn up anything suspicious apart from 3 files which it thought to be malicious in some way. - theyre now deleted but i still have this problem. if anyone has experienced this, or knows what is happening any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

[dclive]

If you pop out the sound card and try motherboard audio can you reproduce the problem?

 

[DJSfurry]

hmm thatd be a good idea. ill try that now. - ive heard that audigy cards do the high-pitch wail freeze thing.

 

[DJSfurry]

hmm just tried using the onboard sound and used microsoft word - froze after about 30 seconds. its really peculiar.

 

[dclive]

How did you try it? Did you physically remove the Soundblaster card? Tell me more about what you did and how it froze.

Also, does this happen in safe mode?

 

[DJSfurry]

ok. well maybe i DIDNT physically remove the audigy card, merely just switched the line in up into my motherboard and enabled the audio chip in bios. The main reason i carried this audigy card over into my current computer was because of the "surround mixer" which allowed me to increase the bass on my speakers without distortion, but actually increasing the crispness and oomph of it, something the chip on my computer couldent do.

 

[dclive]

Remove the SB, and let us know what happens.

 

[DJSfurry]

alright. sound card completely disconnected and my computer still freezes. could it be anything else? i mean. could it be coincidence that it just so happens to be windows media player and microsoft word that have these problems with the freezes and are both microsoft owned?

 

[montag451]

What does Event viewer show [control panel/admin tools/event viewer/application&system logs]

include the SOURCE, EVENT ID, error and any text of the most common ones that happen at the time of the crash.

 

[dclive]

Does this happen in safe mode?