Internet + Sound = Crash?!?!?

[Chiguy]

Like the subject says, whenever I'm on the Internet and sound from whatever plays, it eventually crashes. I have no idea what is going on here.

AMD 2100+
Soyo KT333 Dragon Platnium using onboard sound (CMedia 8738)
Win XP

Any ideas? Thanks

[SSonnentag]

Sounds like an IRQ conflict with your sound card and possibly your network card. Do you have built-in sound or an add-on card? If an add-on card, try going into your BIOS settings and manually setting the PCI slot your sound card is in to IRQ 5 (reserved for legacy device).

Shawn

[Chiguy]

It is an onboard sound chip and it's already on IRQ 5, the modem (yes, I'm on dial up) is on IRQ 11.

I've tried new drivers and a bios flash with no results. This is really getting frustrating.

[Telexen]

Your BIOS should allow you to choose between 2 or 3 IRQs for the sound device.

[Chiguy]

Hmm, I'm not seeing that option in there. There is something about assigning IRQs to PCI slots (but it doesn;t let me pick which PCI slot).

[Chiguy]

I disabled the sound in the BIOS and no lockups. I'm going to try a different modem next. I would try a different soundcard but i don't have any PCI ones.

[Chiguy]

The problem has moved on to beyond locking up when sound is played while I'm on the Internet. It now eventually freezes whenever sound is played.

I have picked up a new sound card (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, which I highly recommend BTW) and the problems seem to have stopped.