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by ngen255

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hello. Recently, my computer started doing something wierd. Whenever I play a game such as counterstrike, the sound will go low and be in slow mo...however, if i listen to music, then it plays normally. anybody know how to fix this problem?
I am running:
Winxp pro
VIA chipset FIC Az-11 motherboard
amd athlon 800 mhz
I believe that it is something to do with the drivers, because i recently installed the winxp...and nothing else changed but that so it leads me to believe that windows for some reason copied an inferior driver over my previous one...i went to the FIC website and d/led the correct driver, but the problem still persists.

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by csmith

You are correct in your suspicion that this is an XP problem.
For game players "upgrading" to XP is not yet a good idea.
The two solutions normally used.
Go back to former OS, (Probably Win98SE)
or do a clean install of XP, then load all applications.
How much time do you have?
Make sure you have a working backup copy of your hard drive, before you do anything.
Regards, Chris

by ngen255

tried that :-/...I remember this happening before, when I had installed WINXP on a diff comp...but I don't know how it fixed...the problem just went away somehow...not so sure if that'll happen in this instance

by csmith

Since this problem persisted after a clean install,
It is a driver incompatability.
Ouch!
The previous incident of a problem "going away by itself" is usually a fix caused by a Windows update.
Since you are into games, I would wait another 6 months, so more patches are released, before getting so agressive on loading XP.
New major releases of Microsoft OSs usually reqire some time before they are stable and compatible.
It is not called "the bleeding edge" for nothing.
Regards, Chris

by ngen255

of course...the problem went away again for no good reason...I installed the security patch from microsoft that fixes the Nachi virus, and all of a sudden it works...bah I hate computers

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