Computer Freezes along with a buzzing sound from the speakers

[De_Fused]

while playing games (xp dont seem to have any problems) the pc randomly freezes along with a buzzing noise coming from the speakers.

Running:

AMD 2600
512 ddr
geforce 4 ti4200 agpx8
ECS L7S7A2 Mainboard
Soundblaster Live
win XP Pro
all hardware is up to date along with up to date bios on mainbord and vid card

any suggestions please help

what games are freezing? do you have proper cooling? updated the games? are you using nvidia drivers?

[pinoy87]

I think its most likely a heat problem. My bro gets it alot with his palo when his hits about 75 C and he gets a buzzing noise from his speakers when he moves his mouse. I would suggest cleaning the heatsink with a vacuum cleaner and take out the dust. When my bro cleaned his heatsink his temps dropped by about 10 C.

[De_Fused]

all games and only happens since the upgrade of the mainbord and cpu

[670bird]

I wonder if the cpu cooler is seated properly, does the cooler you have match the specification of your cpu??

[wju425]

Look at your memory timings in the bios. It might be set too fast. Problems like that are usually memory related. Not always though.

\o/ Billy

[Micro Bean]

75C good lord even by it dropping 10 degrees that still warm.

[pinoy87]

its cause its a stinkin palomino. Even with 4 Thermaltake Smart II case fans each putting out 75 cfm it wouldnt get below 60 C. But he then got a vantec tornado 80mm fan and stuck it on the side of his case providing air for his 9700 pro video card and now at full blast his CPU is at 55 C(only vantec tornado running). With all fans running full blast he gets down to 51 C.

[Omardeth]

i am wondering if this is a driver issue . are all the dirvers updated? it only does this when you go into games ?

[unknown2you]

have u got the turbo turned on on your agp if so if it is turn it off see if that kills the crashing bug another known issue it could be ya processor is not seated correctly well the heatsink are you using a shim between the heatsink and processor if so remove it and are you using a factory fan and heatsink by AMD as i would suggest changing it.
happy computing