How to update an Asus mothernboard drivere and Soundmax sound driv

[Guest]

When I play vertain high level games my computer crashes. I can get through
the opening dungeon of Oblivion now but no more. Then the monitor cloeses
down and says 'No Input' and turns itelf off before the computer closes down.

I have managed to up-date my graphics card but no improvement (ATI X800). I
have an Asus motherboard (K8V) and Soundmax sound driver. However, I cannot
work out how to update these. Soundmax say I have to use the Asus website
and that does not tell you how to actually do it or which download I should
use.

I think if I update these then this will give me a good start to see what
else might be wrong. (I had an overclocking failed message once so am
thinking maybe it is a problem with the fan). Would be grateful for any
advice you can give.

Thanks in advance,

John

 

[Paul Smith]

I have managed to up-date my graphics card but no improvement (ATI X800).
I
have an Asus motherboard (K8V) and Soundmax sound driver. However, I
cannot
work out how to update these. Soundmax say I have to use the Asus website
and that does not tell you how to actually do it or which download I
should
use.

If you go to ->
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us then with the
drop down lists go Motherboards -> Socket 754 -> K8V.

Then in a horizontal line there's a bunch of tabs for drivers, that will
show all the drivers.

Avoid the beta drivers, and look for Windows XP ones that have the highest
version number... It's a nightmare site to navigate.

I think if I update these then this will give me a good start to see what
else might be wrong. (I had an overclocking failed message once so am
thinking maybe it is a problem with the fan). Would be grateful for any
advice you can give.

Make sure all the frequencies have been put back to their defaults -
troubleshooting overclocked hardware can be annoying. Generally if a
fan is on it's way out it'll make a lot of noise too (assuming it didn't
just die on the spot), open the case up and make sure they're all spinning -
if it is a heat problem then leaving the case open may help rule that out.

A few other things to try would be to update the motherboard's BIOS - also
on the website, just make sure to read all the docs at least twice.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Guest]

I also have an Asus mobo and have gotten that overclocking failed messege
when updating the BIOS. From what i was told this is due to the mobo
conflicting with the timings on the RAM so i stick with version 1018.

Oblivion is very very heavy on graphics cards, the fact that you crash after
a few minutes may be due to the card overheating. Have you cleaned the
vidcard's heatsink?

How much RAM do you have?

 

[Guest]

Thanks to both of you for your advice.

I have just updated my BIOS so will see if that helps. I will try cleaning
the fan and leaving the cover off next.

According to Dxdiag my ram is:

Memory 510mb RAM
Page file: 334MB used, 908MB left

Thanks again,

j