11-15-2000, 09:04 PM
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Lieutenant Junior Grade
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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? |
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11-16-2000, 09:45 AM
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Ensign
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Lockups
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.
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11-16-2000, 10:16 AM
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Captain
 
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Drivers, drivers, drivers
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.
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11-16-2000, 06:14 PM
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Lieutenant Junior Grade
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i've updated everything, i assure you its not a heat issue, i can uninstall the sound card and everything works fine.
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11-17-2000, 03:45 PM
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Chief of Naval Operations
 
Join Date: Dec 1999
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Turn the soundcard acceleration down a notch.
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11-17-2000, 06:25 PM
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Lieutenant Junior Grade
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how do you do that?
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11-17-2000, 06:31 PM
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Lieutenant Junior Grade
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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. |
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11-18-2000, 01:09 AM
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Chief of Naval Operations
Join Date: Dec 1999
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Control Panel-->Multimedia-->Audio-->Advanced Properties-->Performance-->hardware acceleration
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11-18-2000, 12:03 PM
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Lieutenant Junior Grade
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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. |
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11-18-2000, 05:26 PM
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Lieutenant Junior Grade
Join Date: Oct 2000
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its fixed, i bought a sb 512.
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11-18-2000, 08:53 PM
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Rear Admiral Lower Half
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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 It sure solved the problem. |
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Linear Mode
