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MadDog 
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 Posted: 05 December 2003 at 4:10pm |
 huwnet wrote:
Do you think it could be my graphics card that is crashing as if I play music and the then the computer crashes the music keeps playing! |
I had the same problem a while ago when i installed some new hardware. It turned out to be my BIOS was updated and was giving the hardware the same ID.
You might want to check to see how old your BIOS is.
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Posted: 05 December 2003 at 4:50pm |
the master solution: don't use windows XP!
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Posted: 05 December 2003 at 10:02pm |
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that is crap, windows xp is still the most stable and usable OS. If you keep your drivers in line then you should not have too many problems. Now consider that 95% of all users have a standard PC and don't play around like some of us and then it'll work just fine.
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Posted: 06 December 2003 at 3:24am |
pmormr wrote:
the master solution: don't use windows XP! |
Windows XP is the best thing since sliced bread.!!! 
I have never had any problems with Windows XP. I use it at home and
work and I give it a hammering in both places, and have yet to see it
fall over.
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Posted: 06 December 2003 at 7:47am |
I've got XP Pro running 4 different DB servers, 4 web servers, 3 web app servers, and a slew of different development environments. Some of it took a little tweaking, but my Linux and Free BSD boxes would hae gagged and rolled belly-up long ago.
The Video card problem was fixed by upgrading the poorly written chip set drivers, MB bios, and ATI Drivers - not by fixing XP. The ATI 9700 was a technology jump. The technologies that support video on pc's was caught out of step.
*nix systems are notorious for only supporting specific drivers. If there's none available for your card, you're sol.
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Posted: 07 December 2003 at 2:05am |
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It is definetly a driver because the music will carry on playing. Who knows what I will do. It crashed using the original set of drivers before I installed anything. So know, it has the most up-to-date drivers and bios it still crashes.
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Posted: 07 December 2003 at 12:24pm |
call the company that made your sound card and get a driver for xp
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Posted: 07 December 2003 at 3:19pm |
Sounds like it might be the sound card... cople of things to try...
1. If your motherboard supports sound on the board, make sure it is disabled in the bios when using a sound card.
2. Check the IRQ settings. sometimes a sound card will share an irq with something else. If that's the case, move either the sound card or the other thing to a different slot on the mb.
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