RE: System Freezes with High-Pitched noise from Speakers



"Bryan Lee" wrote:

> Please help,
>
> When I play any game that draws on the CPU and RAM (i.e.: Rome: Total War,
> Silent Hunter III) the game freezes after 15 minutes of gameplay and I'm
> forced to reboot because the system freezes and a high-pitched noise blares
> out of my speakers?. But when I play games that doesn't draw too much
> horsepower (NASCAR Racing 2003 Season) the system runs fine without issues.
>
>
> I've tried everything:
>
> 1. Checked for virus', none found
> 2. Uninstalled drivers for Sound Blaster Audigy 2, NVidia GeForce FX 5700
> and re-installed them again; still a no go.
> 3. Ran Everest Home Edition for temerature checks; all in the normal range
> 4. Checked the heatsink, CPU fan, power supply fan and all case fans for
> dirt and debris; all clean and in working order.
> 5. Uninstalled all games, defragmented the hard drive, performed a scan disk
> and re-installed the a fresh copy of all problematic software; still a no go
>
> Is it a memory issue? Power Supply? CPU going bad? Or perhaps the sound card
> because of the noise?
>
> Please, someone help me narrow it down because I've invested a lot of time
> and money to build this system.
>
> System Specs:
>
> Computer:
> Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
> Professional
> OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
> DirectX 4.09.00.0904
> (DirectX 9.0c)
> Computer Name LEEFAMILYCOMP (The
> Lee Family System)
> User Name Bryan Lee
>
> Motherboard:
> CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2200
> MHz (11 x 200) 3200+
> Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-K8NS (5
> PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN)
> Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce3 250,
> AMD Hammer
> System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR
> SDRAM)
> BIOS Type Award Modular
> (08/03/04)
> Communication Port Communications Port
> (COM1)
> Communication Port Communications Port
> (COM2)
> Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)
>
> Display:
> Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce FX
> 5700VE (256 MB)
> 3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce FX
> 5700VE
> Monitor Plug and Play
> Monitor [NoDB] (1322911)
>
> Multimedia:
> Audio Adapter Creative SB0240
> Audigy 2 Platinum Sound Card
> Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP2-S -
> Audio Codec Interface
>
> Storage:
> IDE Controller NVIDIA CK8S Parallel
> ATA Controller (v2.5)
> IDE Controller NVIDIA CK8S Serial
> ATA Controller (v2.5)
> SCSI/RAID Controller NVIDIA NForce(tm)
> ATA RAID Class Controller
> Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
> Disk Drive WDC WD400BB-00CLB0
> (37 GB, IDE)
> Optical Drive HL-DT-ST RW/DVD
> GCC-4320B (DVD:16x, CD:32x/10x/40x DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
> SMART Hard Disks Status OK
>
> Partitions:
> C: (NTFS) 38154 MB (11386 MB
> free)
>
> Input:
> Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
> Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
> Keyboard Logitech
> HID-Compliant Keyboard
> Mouse HID-compliant mouse
> Mouse HID-compliant mouse
> Mouse HID-compliant mouse
> Mouse HID-compliant mouse
> Mouse Microsoft USB
> Wireless Mouse (IntelliPoint)
> Game Controller Microsoft
> PC-joystick driver
> Game Controller Microsoft
> PC-joystick driver
>
> Network:
> Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce
> Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport (70.255.232.96)
>
> Peripherals:
> USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI
> USB 1.1 Controller
> USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI
> USB 1.1 Controller
> USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP2-S - EHCI
> USB 2.0 Controller
> USB Device Logitech Cordless
> Dual USB Mouse & iTouch Keys
> USB Device Logitech Cordless
> USB Keyboard
> USB Device Logitech MOMO Racing
> USB
> USB Device Nostromo n52 HID
> SpeedPad 2.0 Mouse Wheel
> USB Device Nostromo n52 HID
> SpeedPad 2.0
> USB Device USB Composite Device
> USB Device USB Composite Device
> USB Device USB Human Interface
> Device
>
> Monitor CTXC502: Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB]
>
>
>
.

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