My computer freezes and sounds like a broken record?

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Hello. I just built a computer a week ago and everything has been great except from one big problem. I'm pretty amatuer at building but my friend and I got this thing together no problem thats the easy part. During whenever there is a video game running or music even just out of windows media player, at random times (1-2 a day) the comp will lock up completely and repeat the same 1 second loop of sound. And I'm forced to manually reset. Logic says to update drivers/ look at temperatures. We went through all of that and temps were all good. But drivers seemed oddly confusing, as I couldn't find the latest ones. I'm mega noob at the software part of this:(. Plus video play back such as dvds and porn all are very dark and extremely red. Thank you for reading and thank you for any help given. Here are my specs

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Asus P5B Delux
Corsair xms ddr2800 512x2
Seagate 320gb sata
Evga 7900gs
thermaltake 550w
WinXP pro 32bit
nothing overclocked, except the video card i think and there isn't any way for me to turn it down on this comp for now. Help a noob.
 
If I had to guess what is wrong, I would say your video card is DOA, or isn't taking the overclock too well. What makes you say it is overclocked, and why can't you turn the overclock down?
 
Your video card, the Nvidia drivers should have a built in overclocking utility, called nTune I think, I'm not positive I don't mess with overclocking myself plus I have an old ATI video card.

But in your Windows control panel, goto the Nvidia options, the Nvidia should have it's own control panel where you can adjust the settings, the overclocking should be in there somewhere....check to be sure they are at default speeds.

What drivers are you having trouble finding...usually drivers are pretty easy to find for the major manufacturers.
You do have all the right drivers installed though right? Nothing in device manager with an exclamation point?
 
GHz said:
Plus video play back such as dvds and porn
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I'm sorry that just made me laugh...

I've heard of this same problem or a similar one with people with core duo's and an Nvidia 8800 card. Maybe it is something with nvidia cards in general. It's either your video card, processor, or motherboard. But my guess is the video card.
 
I've been around ntune. And I did find the manual overclock function. But it won't let me slide the bars over in the "Adjust GPU settings". Additionally how do I find out what my card is running at. I couldn't find it anywhere in nvidia control panel. Or maybe a new card altogether:(

The stock speeds are 450/1320 and this one came at 500/1380 says newegg.
 
When I saw the thread title I immediately though: memory. Check the memory, and download memtest and let it run over night. Or if you feel comfortable enough adjust the settings in bios. Try the system with 1 stick, then the other all day or during a game..try to get the system to lock up with just one stick. If it doesn't try the other stick. If it still doesn't try alternate slots.
 
Sounds like a plan. I'll follow through and report back the results when I have them. Thank you very much!
 
Well I ran it all day while I was at work. Came home, it had gotten to 3,300% covered and found no errors. What now? Try again tonight, or....I certainly don't know. Maybe try lowering the clock speed of the vid card as suggested earlier?
 
Are you using onboard sound? I had this problem with a computer awhile ago that had realtek onboard sound. The driver cd that shipped with the mobo came with a really old version of the driver. Once I udated the driver, the problem went away.
 
My friend suggested the same thing. And yes it is onboard, and it is definitely nothing good at all. I had planned on getting an x-fi card. Well it seems i may be getting it much sooner.
 
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