Why does my computer always crash?
Everytime i play any kind of audio or video (more specifically with audio) my computer crashes! Its a selfmade computer with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, 2gb of memory, and 74 gb 10,000 rpm hard drive.
The computer hasnt been running correctly ever since the power went out one day and obviously my computer shut down. When i booted it up again, it ALWAYS freezes when audio/video plays. I have updated all the drivers for both audio/video and done windows update.
I have the same problem witn windows 2000, win xp pro, win xp 64bit AND linux! Is it my motherboard or soundcard (creative audigy 2)?
One more thing to note is my motherboard has an ATI video chipset with PCI express x16 and i’m using a NVIDIA pci video card (very old school). I havnt bought a new video card (pci express ATI) due to this issue, i dont want to waste my money.
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with all of that firepower, it is unlikely it is a hardware issue. Try uninstalling and re-installing the video card controller. Also, if you have more than one video program running in the background, the computer can get ‘confused’ as to which one to use. Since this began after a power failure, do you have surge protection? If not, you may need to re-format the drive and re-install the OS.
sounds like a power supply problem. If it ran fine before the power outage, check to see if the PS is damaged.
the driver(s) might be corrupted, try reinstalling the drivers