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WyrmMaster
11-28-01, 08:05 PM
My computer crashes in games, seems to be when playing sounds. Like i can join a CS game and its fine till i shoot, everyone else shooting is fine, but when i shoot it locks. Only happens at high FSB speeds, but it didnt untill about 4 days ago. Im at a loss to explain it, i tried reinstalling both Halflife and my soundcard drivers, and it didnt help. If it just did it i would say its the FSB, but it just started, so i really dont know. Any ideas. It seemd to start after i tried burning in the CPU at low speed and high voltage, but its not a CPU problem, 133x10 is just fine. Also, it did this onece before about 3 weeks ago, but that i traced back to having EAX enabled, but thats disabled now, so thats not the problem. Any sugestions welcome.

O yah, soundcard is a Turte Beach Santa Cruz, i think i have the latest drivers.
SteenkyBastage
11-28-01, 08:13 PM
hola massah wyrm

what os are you running? motherboard?

i had lockup problems with an abit kt7a-r in CS on win2k.

solved the problem by disableing ACPI (which let all my pci/raid devices get their own irq number). the problem happened most of the time when i had oc'ed, extremely rarely happened when at default.

only thing i can think of off the top of my head, hope it helps!
WyrmMaster
11-28-01, 08:30 PM
Yah, im running win2k, mobo in sig. I have thought about in IRQ conflict, but whenever i mess with ACPI i tend to screw something up and have to reinstall. If thats what i have to do i will, but what i dont understand is why it just started. Maybe il try a different PCI slot.
WyrmMaster
11-29-01, 09:25 PM
comon guys, someone else has to have some ideas.
WyrmMaster
11-30-01, 09:35 PM
Well i tried some IRQ shuffling, basicaly disabled 4 devices so that the only things on that IRQ where by sound and video cards. I just wish win2k let you change them yourself. Any other ideas, i dont think its an irq problem anymore, bucause it doesnt seem to be a sound problem any more. It crashed yesterday when there was no sound at all.
WyrmMaster
11-30-01, 11:51 PM
Well, i tried reinstalling windows, no luck. Basically it seems like i cant overclock the FSB as much as i used to be able to. Maybe il try removing and reinstalling my northbridge heatsink.
WyrmMaster
12-01-01, 02:36 PM
Well, it looks like my 166fsb is broken. I tried reworking my northbridge heatsink, running at 6x166, and nothing works. Im at 140x9.5 now, and it works fine.

Anybody know why it would suddenly not work at the high bus speed.
Bmxpunk86pl
12-01-01, 04:31 PM
ur memory might not be able to handle the high fsb speed.
WyrmMaster
12-01-01, 05:20 PM
Thats kinda what i thought, but why did it used to work and then all of a sudden not work any more.
WyrmMaster
12-01-01, 11:41 PM
Well i dont know why, but it seems to work fine now. I tried a freinds ram to see if that was the problem. When i put mine back in it works. Maybe some dust had gotten into the socket? But why did it only affect it a hight speeds? :rolleyes:
SteenkyBastage
12-02-01, 06:44 PM
Originally posted by WyrmMaster
Well i tried some IRQ shuffling, basicaly disabled 4 devices so that the only things on that IRQ where by sound and video cards. I just wish win2k let you change them yourself

yeah, it's not actually win2k not letting you change irq's. it's the evil ACPI. acpi forces irq's to all go together for pci devices. you actually have to disable acpi and then you can change your irq's around.

i know it doesn't make any difference since you ruled out irq's already, but just thought i'd let you know for future reference.