System freezes w/high-pitched noise.

[Guest]

About two weeks ago I was playing Rome:Total War when all of the sudden the
game froze and a high-pitched noise blared out of my speakers.

I restarted the system and the same thing happened again after 15 minutes.

I uninstalled the game, ran a check disk and defraged my system, reboot and
re-installed the software... same thing again.

I tried another game application and once again, it froze and made noise.

I've checked the CPU fan and heatsink, both are clean and operating
normally. I also ran a MOBO monitor to see if it's a temperature related
issue. Everything is fine.

Is this a precurser to a power supply failure or memory failure?

System specs:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name XXXXXXXXXXXXX
System Manufacturer NVIDIA
System Model AWRDACPI
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 12 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~2210 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F5, 8/3/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 663.23 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.93 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Thank you,
Bryan Lee

 

[HeeroYuy]

About two weeks ago I was playing Rome:Total War when all of the sudden
the
game froze and a high-pitched noise blared out of my speakers.

I restarted the system and the same thing happened again after 15 minutes.

I uninstalled the game, ran a check disk and defraged my system, reboot
and
re-installed the software... same thing again.

I tried another game application and once again, it froze and made noise.

I've checked the CPU fan and heatsink, both are clean and operating
normally. I also ran a MOBO monitor to see if it's a temperature related
issue. Everything is fine.

Is this a precurser to a power supply failure or memory failure?

System specs:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name XXXXXXXXXXXXX
System Manufacturer NVIDIA
System Model AWRDACPI
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 12 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~2210 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F5, 8/3/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 663.23 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.93 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Thank you,
Bryan Lee

I need to test this out myself to see if the new drivers are working
properly, but the nVidia video drivers were giving me a problem like that.
It was particularly bad when I had chat programs running and was loading The
Sims 2 at the same time. I also have to test to see if Diskeeper wasn't the
root of the issue, as it was with another problem I had.

 

[Guest]

I need to test this out myself to see if the new drivers are working
properly, but the nVidia video drivers were giving me a problem like that.
It was particularly bad when I had chat programs running and was loading The
Sims 2 at the same time. I also have to test to see if Diskeeper wasn't the
root of the issue, as it was with another problem I had.

I did download and applied the new NVidia video card drivers, but this
problem occured well afterwards.

 

[UnaCoder]

Your video card may also be over heating. You may consider adding a
pci slot fan to cool it. I had to do this with an ATI card I had a
while ago.

-Dan

 

[Guest]

PCI cooling fans? I'll give it a try. Thanks Dan.


Respectfully,
Bryan