10 slots vs 4 slots

**darkalbedox2** · 12-25-09, 11:05 AM

just got the latest drivers for my video card just in case, still have the same issue (although I only tested in Portal, it actually did the freeze even sooner than it usually does)

**PhilHayes** · 12-25-09, 11:11 AM

Looks like a problem with your audio drivers.

Try this one Download Realtek HD Audio Codec Driver 2.29 for Vista/Windows 7 Driver for Windows Vista / Windows Vista64 / Windows 7 - Softpedia

I hope that this helps.

**PhilHayes** · 12-25-09, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by darkalbedox2

just got the latest drivers for my video card just in case, still have the same issue (although I only tested in Portal, it actually did the freeze even sooner than it usually does)

Personally I am using the Nvidia drivers version before this most recent one. The recent one didnt work well for me at all.

**darkalbedox2** · 12-25-09, 11:52 AM

those drivers didn't help. It still locks up after about the same amount of time.

dxdiag

Code:

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Sound Devices
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            Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
 Default Sound Playback: Yes
 Default Voice Playback: Yes
            Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_1458A002&REV_1000
        Manufacturer ID: 1
             Product ID: 65535
                   Type: WDM
            Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
         Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
            WHQL Logo'd: n/a
          Date and Size: 7/13/2009 19:07:00, 350208 bytes
            Other Files: 
        Driver Provider: Microsoft
         HW Accel Level: Basic
              Cap Flags: 0xF1F
    Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
              HW Memory: 0
       Voice Management: No
 EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
   I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

            Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
 Default Sound Playback: No
 Default Voice Playback: No
            Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_1458A002&REV_1000
        Manufacturer ID: 1
             Product ID: 65535
                   Type: WDM
            Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
         Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
            WHQL Logo'd: n/a
          Date and Size: 7/13/2009 19:07:00, 350208 bytes
            Other Files: 
        Driver Provider: Microsoft
         HW Accel Level: Basic
              Cap Flags: 0xF1F
    Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
              HW Memory: 0
       Voice Management: No
 EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
   I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

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Sound Capture Devices
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            Description: Microphone (High Definition Audio Device)
  Default Sound Capture: Yes
  Default Voice Capture: Yes
            Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
         Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
          Date and Size: 7/13/2009 19:07:00, 350208 bytes
              Cap Flags: 0x1
           Format Flags: 0xFFFFF

            Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
  Default Sound Capture: No
  Default Voice Capture: No
            Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
         Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
          Date and Size: 7/13/2009 19:07:00, 350208 bytes
              Cap Flags: 0x1
           Format Flags: 0xFFFFF

Critical

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   [ UserID]  S-1-5-18 
 

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Error

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   Task 0 
 
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In Words

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0010: 00000960 0000003C 00000001 00000960 
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In Bytes

0000: D9 07 0C 00 05 00 19 00   Ù.......
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warning

Code:

- System 

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   Channel System 
 
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   Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller 
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Binary data:


In Words

0000: 00000000 00300002 00000000 80000001 
0008: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
0010: 00000000 00000000   


In Bytes

0000: 00 00 00 00 02 00 30 00   ......0.
0008: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 80   .......€
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These were all within 30 seconds of one another, at the time of crash, all taken from dxdiag/event viewer of course

**darkalbedox2** · 12-25-09, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by PhilHayes

Personally I am using the Nvidia drivers version before this most recent one. The recent one didnt work well for me at all.

Also I have seen people with similar issues having it fixed by rolling back to previous nvidia drivers, but I'm running an ATI card. This wouldn't work for me, I'm assuming (I might not be completely computer savvy, but this seems like it wouldn't work at all haha)

**darkalbedox2** · 12-25-09, 12:38 PM

Also also a friend just recommended based on your recommendation to disable my sound drivers completely in device manager, even after doing that, I still have the crash. So I'm fairly confident it is not my sound device or drivers.

This is starting to kill me :<

**darkalbedox2** · 12-26-09, 01:16 AM

Ok so I just saw this in the sticky

Check to make sure you only have one sound device installed
start > run > dxdiag > If you have more then 1 Sound tab, uninstall the one that isn't your sound card.

I did notice there were two sound tabs, and even though disabling both of my sound devices in device manager didn't fix the issue, I thought this might still have something to do with it. I went into device manager to uninstall the device that had no effect on my sound (disabling it still allowed me to have normal sound through my speakers), and it still locked up. However, upon starting up my PC again, it automatically reinstalled that useless second device, and I cannot stop it from doing this. Both are under the

Sound, Video and game controllers

tab, and both are labeled as "High Definition Audio Device". Disabling one does nothing, while disabling the other causes all sound to stop. Uninstalling the one that does nothing reinstalls itself upon restarting the computer, so even if this were to somehow fix it if I could get it to uninstall, there doesn't seem to be a way.

Any help?

**imported_Iggy** · 12-26-09, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by darkalbedox2

Ok so I just saw this in the sticky

I did notice there were two sound tabs, and even though disabling both of my sound devices in device manager didn't fix the issue, I thought this might still have something to do with it. I went into device manager to uninstall the device that had no effect on my sound (disabling it still allowed me to have normal sound through my speakers), and it still locked up. However, upon starting up my PC again, it automatically reinstalled that useless second device, and I cannot stop it from doing this. Both are under the

Sound, Video and game controllers

tab, and both are labeled as "High Definition Audio Device". Disabling one does nothing, while disabling the other causes all sound to stop. Uninstalling the one that does nothing reinstalls itself upon restarting the computer, so even if this were to somehow fix it if I could get it to uninstall, there doesn't seem to be a way.

Any help?

You may be able to disable the sound device in your BIOS. Start your computer and hold down the Delete key or whatever key it says will take you into your setup/BIOS screen. Look for an option that lets you disable that sound device.

I did this on mine since I have on board sound, but I added a Soundblaster Awe PCI card, so I disabled the on board sound device in my BIOS.

**darkalbedox2** · 12-26-09, 09:45 AM

Maybe I'm just overlooking something, but I don't see anything in my BIOS that screams on board sound to me. Again, I'm not too savvy with this kind of thing, so I'm more than likely just severely overlooking it. Are there certain menus/items I should be looking for to disable? I would assume it would say something related to sound, but I didn't see anything.

**darkalbedox2** · 12-26-09, 11:47 AM

Another person recommended going into the launch settings and setting it back to directx 9 and 8.1 as well, but neither of those worked either. Also reinstalled the newest audio drivers since I realized the ones I originally had weren't the newest, but no dice there either.

I still have not found the device in my bios, I'll look for that after work today.