Re: System Freezes with High-Pitched noise from Speakers

Hi Bryan Lee,

The A+ troubleshooting method is to remove all, or as many
devices as possible from your system in order to determine
which device is at fault. In your case, I would start by just
removing the SoundBlaster at first.

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Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
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Bryan Lee Wrote:
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| Jimmy,
|
| That what I thought, but the sound is from the speakers.
|
| I'm running Dual Channel RAM at 1GB (twin stick of 512 PC3200). I took one
| stick out, ran the computer and it booted up fine. Ran the game, and it
| locked up with the noise, Took the other stick out and put the first stick
| that I took out back in. Ran the game, and it locked up there too. So it's
| not the RAM.
|
| I used Motherboard Monitor 5 as well as Everest Home Edition. Both check
| normal. Physically the CPU shows no sign of unusual overheating around the
| heatsink.
|
| Ran an event log, but the system freezes before the failure could be logged.
| Could it be a possible CPU failure due to strain over time?
|
| Thanks,
| Bryan
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Bryan Lee,
||
|| Did you turn off your speakers to make sure that the noise is not
|| coming from inside the case? I believe your CPU is overheating,
|| regardless of what Everest Home Edition is reporting.
||
|| Check if Giga-Byte has a motherboard monitor download here:
|| http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/DownloadCenter/DownloadCenter_1.htm
||
|| --
|| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________


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