Video & Audio Locks Up Comp.

[Guest]

Hey guys,

I finally got a win98 installation to work after trying unsuccessfully many times over the last week. I now have it running and it works great except for when I play video or audio, after 10 seconds to 1 minute, my computer locks up and gives off this continuous high-pitched screech that scares the crap out of me. It's coming from my regular speakers and not from my case speaker so I don't think it's an alarm. Here's my setup:

ASUS A7V-E
800mhz Thunderbird Athlon
45 GB IBM Deskstar
256 MB ram
ATI Radeon 64 MB w/ VIVO
Soundblaster Live! Value
3Com905 Ethernet Card
12/10/32 Plextor Burner


Another note, my brother put in ram upside down (yes, that is right, and yes, he did manage to cram it in) and fried the ram and mobo. I replaced the ram and mobo and tested all the hardware individually and it all worked.

Please help, I miss my clubjackass.com videos!!! Thanks

 

[camieabz]

Assuming its nothing to do with your brother's (I hope you gave him a kicking) messing around, it might be a device conflict. Check out device manager for any conflicts or shared resourses between the two rogues.

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[funkdog]

Although, I didnt' have quite the same thing happening as you did, and I'm not sure if you are overclocking at all. But my media player would lock me up after about 15-30 seconds of playing a song. All I did was increase the voltage to my cpu from 1.70 to 1.75. And 'voila no more lockups.

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[Guest]

My roomate change the irq settings on my computer last night and it seems to have worked up to this point. I am not overclocking... yet. I also want to bring up that every once in a while I'll get a message window when I get into windows that says my registry is screwed or something along those lines. Is there any way to fix it without reinstalling win98? Thanks