I'm sure this is a problem that have plagued many PC users, especially the gamers. My PC seems to be diagnosed with the fatal PC "freeze and sound loop" disease (Really sad since I only had her for 5 months 
!)
Well after hours and hours of searching for a solution I come out empty handed. My computer seems to randomly freeze while I am watching videos/playing games and is accompanied by the sound looping over and over. I have to restart my PC twice (using the power button) before it will start up again.
I have noticed that this happens 9/10 times as soon as a sound is generated (Specially ingame.. selecting npc's for example, the sound it would make would cause the PC to go into "freeze and sound loop" mode). When it comes to my videos, it would seem the same case seeing as the PC would generally freeze and sound loop when an character in the video started speaking or ended speaking.
Searching the interwebs it would seem it could be anything causing this problem - specially in the hardware department. I formatted my pc recently and the freezing stopped.. but now its back again. This leads me to believe it might be a software issue, maybe some driver/program I am installing
? I have the latest ATI drivers for my pc too.
Here are my pc specs:
AMD Athlon x4 Quad Core 620 - Boxed CPU - 2.6Ghz Socket AM3
Asus AMD - M4A785TD-V Evo - All in one Socket AM3 Motherboard
Club 3D ATI Radeon Graphics Card HD5750 - 1024MB 128Bit GDDR5 - PCI-E
Cooler Master Elite 310 - RC-310-oWN1 - Orange Windowed ATX Chassis - No Power Supply Unit
Cooler Master Extreme Power PSU - 550w
Corsair XMS3 DHX Technology Memory - DDR3-1333MHz - 4GB Kit (2 x 2GB)
Samsung 2494HS 23.6 inch LCD Widescreen Monitor
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - 1TB HDD 32MB Cache - SATA 2 - 3.0GB/s
Using windows XP (Soon to get windows 7) and Direct X 9 c
I have also done some testing on my pc parts/software to try and find out whats wrong:
○ Tested my ram modules individually (1 at a time, switched between the 2 ram slots)
○ Disabled my ATI 5750 and switched to the onboard ATI HD4200
○ Got my power supply checked out, got told nothing wrong with it
○ Uninstalled my Codecs
○ Uninstalled my Audio drivers
○ Downgraded/Upgraded between the different ATI drivers
○ Returned motherboard to supplier to be checked - turns out nothing wrong
All of the above failed needless to say. I'm just about ready to drop kick this PC down a flight of stairs but since the PC is 5 months old I still have warranty on all the parts. Any advice on what I can do to fix this issue, it seems everything I try goes down in flames >.<!
EDIT: Sorry for taking so long to update this post. I had sent the M/B back to the supplier to have it tested out.. and well so far I'm giving up hope. Motherboard came back and apparently theres nothing wrong with it. Also, My sis and I orderd my mom a new PC, using the same M/B as mine. It's working perfect. Have watched tons of series/jammed a lot of games and not once did it freeze! Well once I get my M/B back I'll put the pc back together and try tweeking the virtual memory. Even though I got 4 gigs of ram windows only picks up I have 3.25 gigs (The maxium for XP I think).
!)Well after hours and hours of searching for a solution I come out empty handed. My computer seems to randomly freeze while I am watching videos/playing games and is accompanied by the sound looping over and over. I have to restart my PC twice (using the power button) before it will start up again.
I have noticed that this happens 9/10 times as soon as a sound is generated (Specially ingame.. selecting npc's for example, the sound it would make would cause the PC to go into "freeze and sound loop" mode). When it comes to my videos, it would seem the same case seeing as the PC would generally freeze and sound loop when an character in the video started speaking or ended speaking.
Searching the interwebs it would seem it could be anything causing this problem - specially in the hardware department. I formatted my pc recently and the freezing stopped.. but now its back again. This leads me to believe it might be a software issue, maybe some driver/program I am installing
? I have the latest ATI drivers for my pc too.Here are my pc specs:
AMD Athlon x4 Quad Core 620 - Boxed CPU - 2.6Ghz Socket AM3
Asus AMD - M4A785TD-V Evo - All in one Socket AM3 Motherboard
Club 3D ATI Radeon Graphics Card HD5750 - 1024MB 128Bit GDDR5 - PCI-E
Cooler Master Elite 310 - RC-310-oWN1 - Orange Windowed ATX Chassis - No Power Supply Unit
Cooler Master Extreme Power PSU - 550w
Corsair XMS3 DHX Technology Memory - DDR3-1333MHz - 4GB Kit (2 x 2GB)
Samsung 2494HS 23.6 inch LCD Widescreen Monitor
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - 1TB HDD 32MB Cache - SATA 2 - 3.0GB/s
Using windows XP (Soon to get windows 7) and Direct X 9 c
I have also done some testing on my pc parts/software to try and find out whats wrong:
○ Tested my ram modules individually (1 at a time, switched between the 2 ram slots)
○ Disabled my ATI 5750 and switched to the onboard ATI HD4200
○ Got my power supply checked out, got told nothing wrong with it
○ Uninstalled my Codecs
○ Uninstalled my Audio drivers
○ Downgraded/Upgraded between the different ATI drivers
○ Returned motherboard to supplier to be checked - turns out nothing wrong
All of the above failed needless to say. I'm just about ready to drop kick this PC down a flight of stairs but since the PC is 5 months old I still have warranty on all the parts. Any advice on what I can do to fix this issue, it seems everything I try goes down in flames >.<!
EDIT: Sorry for taking so long to update this post. I had sent the M/B back to the supplier to have it tested out.. and well so far I'm giving up hope. Motherboard came back and apparently theres nothing wrong with it. Also, My sis and I orderd my mom a new PC, using the same M/B as mine. It's working perfect. Have watched tons of series/jammed a lot of games and not once did it freeze! Well once I get my M/B back I'll put the pc back together and try tweeking the virtual memory. Even though I got 4 gigs of ram windows only picks up I have 3.25 gigs (The maxium for XP I think).
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