lockups in 3d games w/ sound

[unnamed]

system specs:
CPU - AMD Athlon K7 650MHz
Motherboard - Asus K7M
Video Card - ATI Radeon 64mb
Sound Card - Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla
Network Card - Linksys LNE100TX
Hard Drive - Quantum Fireball 8.4GB 5400RPM
RAM - 128MB PC100 SDRAM
CDROM - Creative Labs 52mx
CDRW - Hewlett Packard 8100i

whenever im playing newer 3d games my system locks up.
the three main games it happens in are quake3, baldur's gate 2 and the radeon arc demo.
im almost positive its my sound card causing it because all the radeon demos with no sound work fine and quake3 will run if i dont have my sound card installed (i havent tried baldurs gate2 w/ 3d and no sound yet though). for some reason half-life runs fine though.
i have all the latest drivers for my hardware, directx8 and windowsme. ive tried direct x 6, 7, 7.1 and 8 as well as windows 98, windows 98se and windows me. i've also tried putting a diamond mx300 sound card in and it still screw up, i've tried different pci slots and the sound card is not sharing an irq with anything.

does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?

[JoeSmooth]

If your system only locks up in 3D games and never during other functions I would guess at a cooling problem. Try taking the cover off, etc and see if that helps. Get one of those 3d benchmark progs and see if that locks up.

Joe Smooth
Had milk. Got Cake?

[Blu]

Make sure you are up to date. Especially with the Radeon ones. And if you're usin a VIA chipset, do that too. Flash the BIOS, anything you can upgrade, do it.

Blu

[unnamed]

i've updated everything, i assure you its not a heat issue, i can uninstall the sound card and everything works fine.

[sbp]

Turn the soundcard acceleration down a notch.

[unnamed]

how do you do that?

[unnamed]

i don't know when this started but its locking up in windows now too.

i can play halflife and starship troopers and use mame (an arcade emulator) without any lockups but everything else (mp3's, windows sounds, most games) the screen freezes.

[sbp]

Control Panel-->Multimedia-->Audio-->Advanced Properties-->Performance-->hardware acceleration

[unnamed]

nope, that didnt work.

i just noticed this, when i wait around 3-4 minutes after it freezes it gets a blue screen that says it cant write to c:, but it only happens when the sounds turned on.

[unnamed]

its fixed, i bought a sb 512.

[Aristo]

:laugh: It sure solved the problem.