Ok a friend sent me here and he said you guys really helped him out. And I have come to the end of my rope and need some help cause I cant figure it out.
Ok let me start by saying I have the most updated drivers I could find for my graphics, sound, and mother board. I am having 2 problems with my pc so I will explain one at a time ok.
All my pc specs are under my bio but let me save you some time-
Mother board - Asus p4s8x
memory - 2 sticks PC 2100 512 ddr
graphics card - ATI 9800 (pro)
processor - Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
Sound - Creative audigy gamer (with creative 5.1 surround)
160 gig hard drive (80 gig external - forgot which brands they are)
350 wats of power
I have 5 fans running a copper after market fan on the processor to keep that cool
ok first problem - When playing a game I am alright for 1/2 and hour or so then I get an error message "vpu recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphic driver commands"
or the screen goes black I can still hear the sound but cant se or move, orrr (yes theres more) the screen freezes and I get a repeating looping sound and I have to restart after all of these.
and it happens all the time i can count on at least once a night while playing games.
Second problem everytime I reset my computer or turn it on the sound card resets the speakers back to 2.1 instead of the 5.1 it shoud be and I have to reset it by using the diagnostic part of the program.
I know this is a lot but I am burnt on this one and could use any help anyone could offer me would be greatly appreciated
I have turned off the VPU recover (my friend said I should do that) but still freezing and just going black.
Thank you
Ok let me start by saying I have the most updated drivers I could find for my graphics, sound, and mother board. I am having 2 problems with my pc so I will explain one at a time ok.
All my pc specs are under my bio but let me save you some time-
Mother board - Asus p4s8x
memory - 2 sticks PC 2100 512 ddr
graphics card - ATI 9800 (pro)
processor - Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
Sound - Creative audigy gamer (with creative 5.1 surround)
160 gig hard drive (80 gig external - forgot which brands they are)
350 wats of power
I have 5 fans running a copper after market fan on the processor to keep that cool
ok first problem - When playing a game I am alright for 1/2 and hour or so then I get an error message "vpu recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphic driver commands"
or the screen goes black I can still hear the sound but cant se or move, orrr (yes theres more) the screen freezes and I get a repeating looping sound and I have to restart after all of these.
and it happens all the time i can count on at least once a night while playing games.
Second problem everytime I reset my computer or turn it on the sound card resets the speakers back to 2.1 instead of the 5.1 it shoud be and I have to reset it by using the diagnostic part of the program.
I know this is a lot but I am burnt on this one and could use any help anyone could offer me would be greatly appreciated
I have turned off the VPU recover (my friend said I should do that) but still freezing and just going black.
Thank you