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- 13 Feb 2002
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Okay, here's my problem. Any time I run anything multimedia related--games, CDs, MP3s, video files, DVDs, etc.--suddenly, the sound infinitely loops on the note it was playing and everything freezes (except my SNES emulator, which advances forward without me doing anything, but still has the infinite sound loop). The only way I can restart is by doing a cold boot. There is no rhyme or reason in regards to "when." It can happen immediately (one time, it looped/froze during the startup sound!) or it can happen a half hour later. All I know is that this looping/freezing is inevitable.
FYI, I am running a 1.3 GHz AMD processor on an Asus A7A266 motherboard. BIOS is updated to latest version (10/2001). I have an onboard C-Media surround sound chip and an ATI Radeon 32 MB DDR video board. Running Windows XP Professional on top of that. I used to run Windows 2000 Professional on this machine, and everything ran perfectly. BTW, my installation of Windows XP was a new installation, rather than an upgrade, and I even went as far as to format the system partition during installation.
Does anyone have any idea as to what is wrong and how to fix this? Thanks...
Melon
FYI, I am running a 1.3 GHz AMD processor on an Asus A7A266 motherboard. BIOS is updated to latest version (10/2001). I have an onboard C-Media surround sound chip and an ATI Radeon 32 MB DDR video board. Running Windows XP Professional on top of that. I used to run Windows 2000 Professional on this machine, and everything ran perfectly. BTW, my installation of Windows XP was a new installation, rather than an upgrade, and I even went as far as to format the system partition during installation.
Does anyone have any idea as to what is wrong and how to fix this? Thanks...
Melon