ross_ntu
03-26-2003, 23:39
Hello,
Used to be on this site when first TW came out, but have not been back for a while, to the extent I think my original account was revoked- I certainly can't sign in on it anymore. Anyway, I hope I am not breaking any rules posting here- I did look but couldn't see anything blatantly contradicting. If I had my choice I would put this in the apothecary, but I totally understand the stance.
Anyway, my problem is I have just upgraded my computer to a XP2100 with Elitegroup K7S5A motherboard (the new bits- before it was a 1.33 K7), 1Gig SDRAM, Asus Gforce 2 GTS 32 mb, 512 PCI soundblaster card, generic network and modem cards. The setup before was working fine, but as per usual when I upgrade something, something odd happened- came up with a message saying that Windows couldn't load up on a blue screen and telling me it had stopped at a memory address. Ok. So I faffed around and eventually installed a second windows, which did load up http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Messed around with previous windows but eventually got rid of the installation - just deleted it- probably not best way but I wasn't sure how else to do it. Anyway, it was working fine- seemingly anyway as I hadn't done much with it. I installed a few drivers and then started to play M:TW and the new Championship Manager 4 demo - both had been working fine. Now fairly regularly I get a freeze- in TW it makes a horrible screeching sound too. I have altered PCI slots so Geforce and soundcard do not have same IRQ, and have also lowered hardware for sound. Have also tried new drivers for both, and I am beginning to think this is not the way, and something is obviously not right. I have no problems in desktop and before this nothing ever used to freeze Win XP (oh I have Win XP and its all patched up http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif ) Mods- if this is in the wrong place please move it. Thanks for your help guys.
Used to be on this site when first TW came out, but have not been back for a while, to the extent I think my original account was revoked- I certainly can't sign in on it anymore. Anyway, I hope I am not breaking any rules posting here- I did look but couldn't see anything blatantly contradicting. If I had my choice I would put this in the apothecary, but I totally understand the stance.
Anyway, my problem is I have just upgraded my computer to a XP2100 with Elitegroup K7S5A motherboard (the new bits- before it was a 1.33 K7), 1Gig SDRAM, Asus Gforce 2 GTS 32 mb, 512 PCI soundblaster card, generic network and modem cards. The setup before was working fine, but as per usual when I upgrade something, something odd happened- came up with a message saying that Windows couldn't load up on a blue screen and telling me it had stopped at a memory address. Ok. So I faffed around and eventually installed a second windows, which did load up http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Messed around with previous windows but eventually got rid of the installation - just deleted it- probably not best way but I wasn't sure how else to do it. Anyway, it was working fine- seemingly anyway as I hadn't done much with it. I installed a few drivers and then started to play M:TW and the new Championship Manager 4 demo - both had been working fine. Now fairly regularly I get a freeze- in TW it makes a horrible screeching sound too. I have altered PCI slots so Geforce and soundcard do not have same IRQ, and have also lowered hardware for sound. Have also tried new drivers for both, and I am beginning to think this is not the way, and something is obviously not right. I have no problems in desktop and before this nothing ever used to freeze Win XP (oh I have Win XP and its all patched up http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif ) Mods- if this is in the wrong place please move it. Thanks for your help guys.