I've noticed some occasional freezing when streaming videos, and it means pressing reset to reboot computer. But because I haven't played any games yet or watched many videos (mostly been fiddling with computer rather than actually using it), I haven't yet had it happen enough to determine any sort of pattern, or if it will happen when gaming for any length of time. So, far it's happened once when streaming bbc iplayer after 20 minutes of a documentary, (but then no freezing happened when I streamed a different iplayer later on for an hour), two or three times a couple of weeks ago when streaming a live broadcast on sopcast, and once or twice when just moving mouse fast opening folders in windows. I'd uninstalled the ati software and reinstalled it a couple of weeks ago, but that didn't stop it freezing it tonight. I've now installed the very latest drivers 9.9, so I'll have to see if it happens again. Could it be ati software related, gpu or cpu hardware related, or perhaps my XP install, like maybe a corrupted driver? I had flashed the bios back and forth a few times when I first had this computer, so I don't know if windows was affected by that. I'll be receiving windows 7 this week so maybe that will sort the problem, or maybe not. Any clues?
When the freeze happens, I hear a continuous loud low pitched buzz not unlike a foghorn, through headphones. Though I don't know if this sound happened when computer froze with mouse when opening folders, or if that just happens with videos.
When the freeze happens, I hear a continuous loud low pitched buzz not unlike a foghorn, through headphones. Though I don't know if this sound happened when computer froze with mouse when opening folders, or if that just happens with videos.
