Random lockups during games, please help.

Hello.

I have been having this problem ever since I reformatted and installed win2k.

Whenever I play games, my system gets frozen randomly without much pattern. While playing CS, sometimes I can play for hours but most of times it will freeze some 5~ 30 min into the game(it's totally random) and the last few seconds of sounds will loop. About 20% of times, I can alt-tab out and come back in but most of times the whole system becomes unresponsive.


I have all the latest windows updates and have installed VIA 4 in 1 patch as well. I am using Detonator 3 12.4 driver from Hercules.com website.

Because of the sound loop when CS crashes I suspect it might be sound card problem instead of graphic card problem.

I have tried to update the drivers for Soundblaster pc128 card, and have dled the installation files from their website. However, upon opening it it says the card isn't detected. When I check it on the Devices Manager, however, it says it is indeed sb pc128.

The driver for the sound card apparently is by MS and was included in win2k. I do not know if this is problem.

Besides this problem, the system runs smoothly...

Please help me, this problem has frustrated me for past month and I would greatly appreciate any help/suggestions.

Thank you.


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Athlon 750
Asus k7v
256 RAM pc133
Prophet II Ultra 64 DDR
Sound Blaster PCI128
win2k

Try uninstalling the sound card drivers and taking out the card itself. Then run it and see if it runs fine. Also, if you have onboard sound, you could give that a try.

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My Rig:
Black Hydraulic
Epox 8K7A DDR
Athlon 1.2 266
256 Pc2100 DDR Ram
IBM 40 Gig 7,200
SB Live! 5.1
Kyro II 64 MB

still same problems....

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Athlon 750
Asus k7v
256 RAM pc133
Prophet II Ultra 64 DDR
Sound Blaster PCI128
win2k

Try instaling the AMD AGP port driver instead of all 4 VIA drivers(only install 3 of them)
Also make sure you dont have any IRQ conflicts

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Hardware specs:
750mhz Duron
MSI K7T Pro2-A
64mb pc100 Hyundai RAM
64mb pc133 Micron RAM (both running at CAS2 133mhz)
8X4X32 Phillips PCRW804 CD-RW
20GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM ATA-100 HD
VisionTek Geforce3
Sound:Integrated audio(yeah I know but I dont care still sounds good to me)
Logitech Ifeel Optical mouse(real fun with games that support it)
Altec Lansing ACS33 speakers and one subwoofer
Keyboard:Cheap POS OEM(who cares it works fine for me)
Phillips 107S 17" monitor

what mobo are you running on there?

i have an a7m and i installed both via4in1 and the agp miniport and it works wonders in 3dmark2k1 it doesn't freeze up than again i'm not using win2k sp2 though

How do I find out if there is any IRQ problem?

And do I have uninstall 4 in 1 drivers(if yes, how?) before I install 3 of them?


I really appreciate you guys' help.



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Athlon 750
Asus k7v
256 RAM pc133
Prophet II Ultra 64 DDR
Sound Blaster PCI128
win2k

so sorry, but i am outta ideas...


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Athlon 750
Asus k7v
256 RAM pc133
Prophet II Ultra 64 DDR
Sound Blaster PCI128
win2k