[F]

My WinXP Pro system has taken to freezing at random times.

The only reasonably common times are at the end of the last note of the
sound played when it is booting and when a folder is being opened. It
will sometimes freeze on shutting down and sometimes just randomly. If a
sound is playing a short snatch of it is left repeating until the
machine is turned off/re-booted.

I've recently had similar problems - the computer would freeze when a
memory card was inserted into a card reader - following the installation
of a USB 2.0 PCI card but they seem to have been fixed since I disabled
USB 1 in the bios (Asus A7V266-E m/board).

Anyone got any thoughts on what the problem/solution might be?

TIA.

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[CompTechie]

sounds like you have a bad installation of XP and some of the core files are
corrupt. You may need to try a fix XP with you installation disk or just
re-install XP and start from scratch
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"F" wrote:

> My WinXP Pro system has taken to freezing at random times.
>
> The only reasonably common times are at the end of the last note of the
> sound played when it is booting and when a folder is being opened. It
> will sometimes freeze on shutting down and sometimes just randomly. If a
> sound is playing a short snatch of it is left repeating until the
> machine is turned off/re-booted.
>
> I've recently had similar problems - the computer would freeze when a
> memory card was inserted into a card reader - following the installation
> of a USB 2.0 PCI card but they seem to have been fixed since I disabled
> USB 1 in the bios (Asus A7V266-E m/board).
>
> Anyone got any thoughts on what the problem/solution might be?
>
> TIA.
>
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>

[F]

On 01/07/2005 11:33 F wrote:

> On 30/06/2005 19:53 F wrote:

> Update:
> As there seemed to be a connection with sounds being played I have
> disabled CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device in Device Manager. The machine
> hasn't frozen since (but I have no sound on it).
>
> Early days, but does this provide any clues as to the problem and a
> possible solution? Device Manager claims that the relevant driver is
> up-to-date.

Update on the update:
Disabling CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device in Device Manager, or PCI audio
options in the bios, stop the freezes. Re-enabling them starts the
problem again.

Anyone got any thoughts on what might be going on?

I've got a sound blaster card somewhere. Would disabling the built-in
sound and then installing the sound blaster be likely to offer a
solution? Or would that need me to re-enable the CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio
Device in Device Manager and PCI audio options?

TIA

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