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