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Thomas K
Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 6:01 pm:   

Hi everyone, this is my first posting to hardware hell seeing as that I can usually handle most problems but this one is proving quite difficult and annoying. Okay here are my specs...

2.8 Pentium 4 533FSB
512 Ram PC-3200
80gig Segate Hard drive
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy
6.1 Logitech Speakers
400Watt PSU
Stock CPU fan running at load 50-60*C
GA-8ST800 seres (P4 titan seris mobo) SiS 645DX chipset.

Well that covers it, except for a DVD rom and CD burner and floppy, but those are beside the Point. I recently purchased a new soundcard listed above a Creative Soundblaster Audigy and disabled the on board sound (AC '97) through BIOS, anyways I thought that would solve the problem. It didn't. Every 12 hours on average my computer crashes with a blue screen of death with the words hardware failure please consult vendor. Anyways the card works perfectly and my computer still crashes. I suspect the jumper settings on the on-board sound card but removing them all makes it crash before reaching 2 hours runtime. Please help me.
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Registered: 6-2003
Posted on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 9:32 pm:   

Your system sounds top notch. However the blue screen issue is bit tougher to diagnose. If you suspect the sound card, Why not uninstall the drivers and remove the card from the system and try running without it. If it still crashes than you need to look elsewhere for the problematic hardware.
The last Hardware failure message I had with a BSOD was caused by a bad stick of memory.
Thomas K
Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 6:10 am:   

Thanks for the reply, though I sincerely doubt bad drivers are the result of this. I'll try to update them, but like I said the jumper configuration is the issue. Anyways to completely bypass them? Thanks again
Thomas K
Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 11:25 pm:   

Okay I've done a clean reinstall of the drivers and since 2am (now 4:24pm), my computer has yet to crash. Looks like when I disabled the onboard sound I needed to reinstall the drivers. Thank you.

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