Well I've been having this problem for a while now and its extremely annoying as you can imagine.

Basically what happens is while playing a game (any game) my computer will lock up and it is always accompanied by a squealing/squeaking noise and looping of any audio that happened to be playing at the time.

This has never happened during normal computer use such as web browsing or watching videos, only while playing games.

My temperatures are all well within tolerances.

I've been using my Asus probe program to acculmulate data to try and identify the problem and i noticed the vcore went down to 1.728 around the time the latest lockup ocurred. It seems to stay at around 1.7 or 1.76 or 1.744, could that be the problem, bad power supply or my motherboard or cpu on the fritz?

Anyone have any ideas why this could be happening?

I've also completely reformatted and reinstalled all the latest drivers for all my hardware recently and the problem was ocurring before and after the format.

You probably need a bigger PSU.

I upgraded not to long ago to a Enermax 420 watt from a 350 watt, so should be plenty of power, my hardware isn't that new. Could be defective maybe.

Are you overclocked to anything?

What kind of video card do you have? Im guessing by the voltage you have an intel chip. Those variations in voltage arent that big though. What are your specs. Could be a power supply as stated above. How many amps are on your 12v rail? List some specs. could also be a memory issue.

Quote: Originally Posted by Scorpionic Well I've been having this problem for a while now and its extremely annoying as you can imagine. Basically what happens is while playing a game (any game) my computer will lock up and it is always accompanied by a squealing/squeaking noise and looping of any audio that happened to be playing at the time. This has never happened during normal computer use such as web browsing or watching videos, only while playing games. My temperatures are all well within tolerances. I've been using my Asus probe program to acculmulate data to try and identify the problem and i noticed the vcore went down to 1.728 around the time the latest lockup ocurred. It seems to stay at around 1.7 or 1.76 or 1.744, could that be the problem, bad power supply or my motherboard or cpu on the fritz? Anyone have any ideas why this could be happening? I've also completely reformatted and reinstalled all the latest drivers for all my hardware recently and the problem was ocurring before and after the format.

Ok try this

Before opening a game
Open "task manager"
Find the process "explorer.exe"
right click it and choose "end process tree"

If that stops the crashing you might have a virus or sumtin

With the squealing/squeaking noise I would assume it to be a sound issue. Try drive cleaner and the newest drivers for your sound device.

Come to think of it, this problem started ocurring after I upgraded to my audigy 2.

My hardware is as follows:

XP 2200 not OCd
1 gig corsair ram not OCd
6600GT AGP not OCd
asus a7v8x mobo
audigy 2 zs platinum
2 hard drives and 1 optical drive
6 USB devices connected

This might or might not help, but when that happened on MY system, it ended up being a RAM problem. I'm not necessarily saying thats whats wrong here, just saying when it happened to me, I had no idea what was going on too, and it just ended up being the ram. The ram in my computer, which was stable (and not to mention underclocked - it was ddr333 @ 280 cuz I had 266 fsb) for a long time, just decides to go nuts for no apparent reason. It would be picky about which slots it would run in when it had no problems before and in the end, kill my mobo. All the other stuff ran fine when I checked them in another computer.

Try reseating ram and running some mem tests on it.

I had an XP 2000+ palomino core running on a Soyo Dragon+ with 1gb Rosewill ram

hehe.... move the sound card to a diffrent pci slot

Quote: Originally Posted by THRiLL KiLL hehe.... move the sound card to a diffrent pci slot

yep--thats my vote.....something about irq conflicts or something. either that or a power supply issue.....

I'm haveing the same problem its doing my head in.

with reseting memory how can this be done?