Counter-Strike Freezing/Looping help

[ant92]

Hey,

I have been playing Counter-Strike Source(CSS) for about one year on my CURRENT PC and have had no problems what so ever. It's only just recently i am experiencing crashes, Counter-Strike is freezing and a sound is looping. This happens as soon as i connect to the server (where you select sides). The only way to get rid of this is to press Cntrl>Alt+Delete and end the gl2 task..

I even uninstalled Steam completely so that also deleted all the Counter-Strike files/game caches and then i reinstalled it(4gig) and still get same problem.. completely lost!

Any help would be greatly appreciated (eg configs, Graphics, Resolution, Refresh Rate, Command etc.), i am on my school holidays and wanna get back into gaming.



ACPIx86-based PC
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Thermaltake 430W Power Supply
ST3160215A ATA Device
Manufacturer: ECS
Model: 662/1066T-M2
OS: Windows Vista
Total Physical Memory: 2,046MB
Processor Model: Intel® Pentium® D CPU 3.40GHz
Number of Cores: 2
Norton 360 if that helps ..

EDIT
It froze then unfroze and i managed to get these weird sentences from CONSOLE

SetConVar: No such cvar ( rcon_lock set to 1.5), skipping
SetConVar: No such cvar ( setcash_ver set to 1.3), skipping
SetConVar: No such cvar ( ResetRank set to 1.0 eng), skipping
SetConVar: No such cvar ( es_corelib_ver set to 2.0.0.250i), skipping
SetConVar: No such cvar ( mani_nextmap set to blood_assault_bw), skipping
SetConVar: No such cvar ( mani_tickrate set to 66), skipping
Got pure server whitelist: sv_pure = 2.
CAsyncWavDataCache: 0 .wavs total 0 bytes, 0.00 % of capacity
Begin loading faces (loads materials)
End loading faces (loads materials)
Initializing renderer...
Unable to initialize DirectSoundCapture. You won't be able to speak to other players.

Kind Regards,
Anthony.

 

[LinkedKube]

Try updating your sound drivers. You should be able to do this through your manufacturers website.

 

[ant92]

I done this already and had no luck and just in case if it was my sound i ended up buying a new Creative sound card.

i disabled my old Realtek 97'Audio but Steam help are saying i need to disable it in my BIOS. how do i do that? Or is it really necessary?

 

[ant92]

i am currently reading this tweak guide and it says that you shouldn't download a driver for your gfx card when you haven't already uninstalled it, i thought you could override it so im going to remove all gfx drivers and re-install them and ill post the results..

EDIT:
i think this done the trick along with a full scan (Norton 360) and it caught some Bloodhound trojan thing and it said it was affecting performance and stability etc.