CS crashing with looping sound

[-LiT- Killer_B]

CS keeps crashing for me with a looping sound, which cannot be stopped unless I reboot via the reset button. In steampowered support area there is an article about this and soundblaster cards, which I have, but none of thier advice helps. Anyone else having any problems like this or any advice?????? :dunno:

[Saur]

Sounds like an IRQ conflict.
Run msinfo32.exe and go to Sharing tab.

http://kadaitcha.cx/irq_conflicts.html
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314068

^--- from http://www.halflife2.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-43661.html

Some success was had

<3 Saur

[-LiT- Killer_B]

No IRQ conflict or sharing, but it was sharing the I/O port with pci to pci bridge, which shouldn't be a problem...so I guess I am going to have to scale down my hardware acceleration...I hope I don't lose much sound quality in game.

[Vryllyn]

I stopped having that problem after I upgraded my system, but I also believed that my fan on my CPU had been dying for quite some time tho.

[-LiT- Killer_B]

I can't play CS anymore because every 10-15 minutes my system freezes with a looping sound, and I have to reboot...I can't even alt tab out. Until valve/creative (I say creative, because I believe they are the culprit) get thier head out of thier asses, its too unbearable. Does anyone know what happens if you lower your hardware acceleration??? Does it lessen your quality, b/c that is one of the suggestions on steampowered.com. I know that I already posted about this but It wasn't this bad...I just formatted my machine yesterday too. Others have suggested irq conflicts...here is a list of my conflicts.

I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

IRQ 20 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
IRQ 20 NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller

Memory Address 0xD8000000-0xDFFFFFFF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
Memory Address 0xD8000000-0xDFFFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xE1FFFFFF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xE1FFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

I/O Port 0x0000D000-0x0000DFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
I/O Port 0x0000D000-0x0000DFFF Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM)

Let me know if anything here looks suspicious...I am desperate.
Thanks,
Killer

[kem$]

^ Try the Steam forum, maybe you'll get better results.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/

[-LiT- Killer_B]

Already looked there, not much help...I just wondered if anyone else with a creative card is having similar problems? and if the conflicts looked okay? and if the hardware acceleration made a difference in quality.