I just got a hercules digifire 7.1 sound card and after playing music for about 4 minutes (it varies, one time it played for 12min) my computer completely freezes. Mouse doesnt move, ctrl-alt-delete does nothin etc… I thought it might be a software incompatibility causing it so I ended closed everything running. Then I used taskmanager to end the processes of everything that I didn’t need and these are the processes that I left running.
explorer.exe
taskmgr.exe
ctfmon.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
msdtc.exe
System Idle Process
system
smss.exe
csrss.exe
winlogon.exe
services.exe
lsass.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
dllhost.exe
spoolsv.exe
winamp.exe (Playing music using windows media player causes freezing too, also while playing any games including Deus Ex IW demo and Starwars K.O.T.O.R.)
Also checked if it might be an IRQ conflict, but in device manager (viewing resources by connection) my hercules digifire 7.1 card is useing (PCI) 7 which nothing else is using.
Tried Hercules tech support but inorder to email them you gotta make an account, and their state field doesnt accept anything. Doesnt seem like I’ll be getting a reply from their webmaster about that anytime soon =(
