onboard sound causes freeze 1

[nlm9802]

hmm, this is a first for me.. first off, a list of components:
soyo p4x400 dragon ultra (onboard sound, network, sata, raid, usb 2.0)
p4 3.06 533fsb
512 PC3200 Corsair XMS platinum
ATI Radeon 9700 pro
(2) WD 80GB 7200 rpm ata133 raid0
1 WD 40 GB 7200 rpm ata133 OS
sony 16x dvd
liteon 24x12x48 cdrw
enermax 500w ps
liquid cooling (temps not a concern, never over 100F)
oh, and windows xp pro, directx 9.0a, all latest drivers.


ok.. symptoms:
sound drivers unloaded, system runs awesome, video is great, can play graphics intensive games for hours.
now, if I install the sound drivers (latest ones off soyousa.com) I can get anywhere from 1 second to about 45 mins into a game, then all of a sudden it freezes, sometimes the sound stays on whatever pitch it was when it froze.
I also tried unistalling the drivers and installing a good soundblaster live 5.1, this caused a freezeup before XP even finished loading. attempted installing the drivers before the card was in and it wouldnt let me. I think as soon as it plays the chimes when you log in is about where it froze.

things i've tried..
disabled all my serial/parallel ports, floppy drive, modem.. anything drawing an IRQ that I didn't use. no dice.

underclocked my ram, thinking it was memory related, doesnt appear to be now, so i leave it on 200 fsb (x2 ddr)

added custom heatsinks to the video card, temps went down slightly at high load with the fan blowing on it.. no difference it crash occurence.

uninstalled onboard sound.. this worked, but i have no sound

any other ideas would be much appreciated..

 

[geo87]

Read this

http://www.soyousa.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=59

,It must be a problem with soyo boards.

 

[Kocky]

I would disable the oboard sound card in the BIOS and buy yourself a nice PCI slot sound card. They are not that expensive and looking at the specs of your system I'm sure you can afford it. hahhahahah
Just kidding.

 

[nlm9802]

thanks for the assistance, will check out how that article works tonight.

as far as the pci card, i tried that, i have a spare sblive 5.1 and it causes the exact same problem. I think it's not allocating the right irq to sound.. bios fix may do it, i'll take a look tonight. That article seems to get a little desperate.. it stops just short of "go buy a new motherboard" (which I may end up doing anyways, maybe a dfi lanparty with 875 chipset and a p4 3.0 or 3.2)

 

[Kocky]

Get yourself a ASUS or ABIT. The best there is.