Sound Crashes in WindowsXP (Pro)......

Hey all....

I have got a problem with my XP (Pro) and I'm not sure how to fix it.... I have an AMD Athlon 2400 with 768mb of ram. I initially had 20gb of HD (Maxtor, 5400rpm)... then I decided that I needed a bigger HD so I went and bought a new Maxtor HD (120 GB 7200 Diamondmax Plus 9) and installed it as the Master and the 20gb as the slave.... cut the long story short the #@*$ing HD died after just two days of being installed.... anyway I had to take it back from where I bought it and they gave me an 120gb HD (7200rpm) Seagate HD this time..... what I did was I formatted it with FAT32 file system and then installed XP(pro), SP1 and the works.... anyway now I find that whenever I try and load up two cd's full of mp3's on to my winamp (5.01 lite) after a couple of hours of playing music, the winamp just stops midway and doesn't play at all... not even when I quit winamp and start again.... at the same time if I try using Windows Media Player 9 to play any music clips then I find that the picture is in slow motion and of course there is no sound.... if I reboot the computer everything gets back to normal for couple of hours and then it screws up again.... does anybody have any clue as to why this happens... its never happened before..... Any help would be appreciated at this moment as I am out of ideas....

Regards

SB

[Jason425]

perhaps the HD (or something else) is overheating?

Originally Posted by Jason425

perhaps the HD (or something else) is overheating?

If something is overheating.... would it just affect the sound rather than anything else???? In my case its just the sound and nothing else.... I can browse the web, send emails... use word or excel or do anything except get sound....

[vee_ess]

Have you tried the drivers?

Originally Posted by vee_ess

Have you tried the drivers?

Yeah.... all the drivers are upto date.....

120GB and fat32 MIGHT be your problem. not saying it is, but fat is an old filesystem and not designed to quickly handle many files that large. tho that likely isn't the problem as it is corrected on reboot

Originally Posted by James

120GB and fat32 MIGHT be your problem. not saying it is, but fat is an old filesystem and not designed to quickly handle many files that large. tho that likely isn't the problem as it is corrected on reboot

I actually started with NTFS for the 120gb drive, that's when the problem started... so I reformatted using FAT32... but the problem continued.......

[Jason425]

ahhh! the guest problem of quoting posts and that's it has returned.. and the sad part is that i'm not a mod anymore to fix it! OH THE HUMANITY!!!

hmm this is a tough problem
sometimes the newest drivers dont mean they are the best

im not sure what to suggest except try using some older drivers or check IRQ conflicts or make sure that things are plugged in tightly
and DMA is enabled for your cd-rom drives and so on
check bios settings too

I have the Identical Problem

Sold my CT4760 SBLive! mp3+ for this ((

Audigy2 SB0240 Crashes WinAMP after 1 to 4 Hours of Playing

You can restart WinAMP by Killing it Device Mgr and Continue.

I run an Athlon 850 on a K7t 133 and 868B southBridge that has addressing issues with Cards with no PCI Parking - but I had the SB Live! with no PCI Parking working great as long as it shared an Irq with the AGP and PCI Delay Latency Disabled in BIOS.

The Audigy2 has PCI Parking, so I Installed the Audigy to a slot with it's own Irq such that : Slot 1 is AGP , Slot 3 TV Capture, Slot 5 SB0240 and Slot 7 NIC - In this case the MB BIOS assigns each card it's own Irq and none are shared - however NT ACPI does regulate Irq Assignment and report all devices as Irq3

SB0240 Drivers are latest from Creative Labs

Anyway : the problem of WinAMP Crashing after some time persists even if I ENABLE PCI Delay Transactions - I've tried various versions of WinAMP and Same thing - I'm now playing with Buffering in WinAMP Preferences/OutPut/Direct Sound OutPut - SO FAR NO GOOD

Have you noticed that "CICEROUIWNDFRAME" Process, a speech engine for Office I believe hangs if you ReBoot when WinAMP Crashes.

I have also Blown all DUST out of the Tower and all 4 fans running Good.

Siish!! a 2 to 4 hour TEST to see if WinAMP Crashes Gads!!!

If it's NOT a Buffer over run in WinAMP then it could possible an Audigy2 Driver leak - but this would freeze the System and that's not happening.

Heat - can't see that as my case is open and 4 fans running - unless the Audigy2 has a defective Chip that overheats.

You and I seem to be the only ones afflected with this problem - so a defective Audgy2 may be reasonable to conclude.

I'll post my updates - if I find something out with in 3 days or this Card goes BACK

SafeMode ))