Hi,
Since I changed my SB PCI 128 for an SB Live! 5.1 I have the following
problem. After playing a game like GPL, Nascar4, FS2002, CMR2, MiG Alley,
... for a few minutes, the gorgeous sound from my 5 Philips speakers
suddenly increases in pitch dramatically; i.e. the music/sound is still
there, but all frequencies have been increased by a factor of -say- 4. I
normally can continue playing the game for some time, but after a 'task
switch' (pressing ESC a few times or ALT-TAB) the computer hangs. The HD
activity light is on, and sometimes (1 time out of 4) the Blue Screen of
Death appears with the message 'Disk Write Error; Unable to write to disk in
drive H' (my games reside on partition H). A reboot is always necessary.
I changed most drivers and part of the hardware; no big differences.
Currently my system has the following specifications:
- AMD Duron 750
- Asus A7V-E
- BIOS 3.11.00.18.AS01
- 512 MB RAM
- Windows 98 SE (4.10.2222)
- SB Live! (with latest drivers from the Creative Support Centre:
SBL51_W9xME.exe for type nr. SB0060.
- DirectX 8.1 (4.08.01.0881)
- Asus AGP-V7100
Actually I'm not sure whether the SB Live! is the real cause of the problem,
also because what I've seen happening most of the times is this:
1. After bootup, the swap file size is roughly 100 MB; strange, because my
machine has 512 MB RAM (which BIOS and Windows recognise).
2. After starting Nascar2002 (demo), the swap file size had increased to
some 170 MB.
3. While driving, the swap file increases to some 420 MB. I honestly have no
idea why...
Changing virtual memory management from 'Windows-does-it' to 'Let-me-do-it'
doesn't cure the problem; however, it seems that I can play the games a bit
longer with a fixed swap file (of 64 MB) than before; just as an increase
from 256 MB RAM to 512, and a upgrade for Windows to SE seems to improve the
situation somewhat. But then again, I don't know whether this is the root of
the problem.
I even reinstalled everything from the ground up. It didn't help. I can't
find the same problem on the Internet; I tried cures for
more-or-less-similar problems, but it doesn't help...
If anybody can help: many thanks in advance!
Regards,
Bert
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