Evening all, About a week ago I got my new 9600XT graphics card to replace some crappy GeForce 64MB thingy. The first thing I did to test it was to install the first game I could find lying around (this happened to be Flight Sim 2002, which ran fine with my last card I think), and while playing around in it, crashing planes into trees etc, the computer completely froze. The display wouldn't do anything, the sound 'froze' as well (repeated on the same 'note' continuously that it was playing when the freeze occurred). It didn't even respond to good old Ctrl+Alt+Del, leaving me to use the failsafe reset button on the front of the case. The other day it happened again, while having an audio conversation with someone over MSN Messenger. And about 5 minutes ago it happened again, this time while watching a video stream in Winamp. I think this has *something* to do with either the graphics card or the sound card (Creative Soundblaster 5.1 type thing). Anyone got any idea what might be happening? The graphics card isn't overclocked in any way so I can't see temperatures being a problem. Thanks in advance -Sam
hmm strange one then. What PCI slot is the soundcard running in? Can you get an IRQ listing, and see what devices are sharing IRQ's?
Goto Control Panel--> System Properties--> Hardware [TAB]--> Device Manager [Button]--> View [TAB]--> Resorces by Type--> Interupt Requests (IRQ)
Fisrt thing is you need to install the mobo drivers from the disk that came with it (ethernet, audio and USB drivers have not been installed). But what you were looking for was 2 or more resources sharing the same IRQ (the numbers down the side), there will always be some sharing, but try not to have your PCI devices sharing the same IRQ, you may have to swap PCI slots to change that. But in your case the graphics card and sound card are on seperate IRQ's.
Thias happens to me and i cant figure out wahts going on, its not the VGA gbecuase I have a nVidia card. But i do have the same sound card as you, I think it might be that.
