Game crashes and sound is gone

[Ahmose]

I need some help in figuring this out.
I'm using Win2K Pro and sometimes while playing a game, the game crashes. So i do a ctrl-alt-del and kill the game process, however the sound is now gone.
Is there anything i can do after this happens to try to get the sound back (i guess the game grabs the sound resources and they're not freed back when the game crashes).
I have tried playing with the mixer, device properties etc... to no avail.
Any help is appreciated...

[Droppyale]

try updating your sound card driver.

why does it crash anyways?

video card problem? PSU problem?

what are your specs?

[Ahmose]

It's an older PC that the kids use to play games.
It's a PII 450 Mhz, 256M Ram, Nvidia Ge2 64 Meg, sound card is
1371 ensoniq.
I think it's just badly behaving software.
Several other games don't have this problem.
thanks again..

[Xpander]

what game is it? if it's an old game it might have problems running on a fast new machine. but judging by your specs old games should work fine too.

[Ahmose]

It's some Clifford games and Dora the explorer :-) (children stuff)