Creative SB Live! 5.1

[spenz]

or try this mate, Uninstall your soundcard completely if you don't know how to manually delete the file clutters ion the registry editor. Try Ccleaner or regCleaner it's both excellent in removing excess clutter. After doing so restart and go to your main bios and disable your realtek onboard soundcard. complete the restart and when you're in the windows install your new soundcard and hope it works. ^_^

[Elvenmunky]

right, spenz i have done everything u said and now i get this error message:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response...d7fd562&SID=11

but the thing is, i agve installed the latest catalyst driver (6.6)

[peat moss]

right, spenz i have done everything u said and now i get this error message:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response...d7fd562&SID=11

but the thing is, i agve installed the latest catalyst driver (6.6)

And the 2 nd step is :

+ Solution 2: Manually decrease Hardware Acceleration for your video adapter.

Also this :

WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Display.
2. On the Settings tab, click Advanced, and then click the Troubleshoot tab.
3. Move the Hardware Acceleration slider to None, and then click to clear the Enable Write Combining check box.
4. Click OK, and then click OK.

Note This procedure prevents the display driver from programming the hardware incorrectly, but you may lose some display functionality and performance. Although you can increase the hardware acceleration settings higher than None to regain functionality and performance, these settings increase the chance that the issue will occur again. For maximum stability, leave hardware acceleration off.

[Elvenmunky]

yeh i think i found out what the problem was, i opened the side panel and unsrewed my fan and then blew it directly on the my videocard while my lil bro played 'F.E.A.R' and it didnt crash once and when i took away the fan, the game crashed straight away...could this be the mystery solution?

[peat moss]

Its a start, thought you had trouble with sound ? In fairness I remember you saying your system crashed while playing games in another thread .

Are not computers wonderful ?

[spenz]

yeh i think i found out what the problem was, i opened the side panel and unsrewed my fan and then blew it directly on the my videocard while my lil bro played 'F.E.A.R' and it didnt crash once and when i took away the fan, the game crashed straight away...could this be the mystery solution?

hehe heat kills, most specially to machines. Imagine this, i use a leadtek 6600GT videocard with its fan on full throttle and it still crashes whenever i play extreme graphical games like F.E.A.R, oblivion and others..and i checked my temperature its wooping high that's because of heat. how much more if there's no fan yea it can certainly coz crashes.^_^ You might want to buy a video card cooler like arctic accelero its ultra powerful video card cooler make crashes almost gone to 95%. it's there in the market for a reason.

[Elvenmunky]

have u got one? do they really work?

[Elvenmunky]

...coz like i dont really wanna be wasting some money, but i hope it does work

[spenz]

Arctic cooler accelero works magic for me. as i've said earlier, before, when i wasn't using any video card cooler, i have to suffer from time to time crashes. but since installing arctic accelero crashes was almost gone down to 95%. So I recommend it. ^_^