Is my motherboard toast?!?! serious sound problem

Question

I have a K9N2 platinum motherboard. I play games like counter strike source, and battlefield 2 on my computer. For a long time I have been using a soundblaster x-fi sound card. for the past few months whenever I play a game, after about 15-45 minutes of playing my sound would cut out, the game would freeze/lag up momentarily, then continue with no sound. If I exited the game, 3/4's of the time I would still have sound at my desktop, and again if I restarted the game. SO this whole time I've been figuring that my soundcard was the culprit, and it was nearing its end. so recently I switched to the onboard sound of my mobo :/  which seemed to work fine until.... THE SAME THING HAPPENED! so now i'm left to assume only that something is going wrong with the motherboard to cause this. Also, a lot of the time when the sound cuts out, there is a very sharp, loud popping sound right before I lose sound.
what is a boy to do? I love this mobo, and will probably just end up dealing with it for a long time before I invest any time/money into fixing it.
Specs:
MSI K9N2 Platinum nForce SLI, AM2+
AMD64 6000+ 3.1Ghz
4gb DDR2 800
PNY 9800 gt 1gb

Answer 1

Quote from: Gristle on 03-March-10, 04:09:10
I have a K9N2 platinum motherboard. I play games like counter strike source, and battlefield 2 on my computer. For a long time I have been using a soundblaster x-fi sound card. for the past few months whenever I play a game, after about 15-45 minutes of playing my sound would cut out, the game would freeze/lag up momentarily, then continue with no sound. If I exited the game, 3/4's of the time I would still have sound at my desktop, and again if I restarted the game. SO this whole time I've been figuring that my soundcard was the culprit, and it was nearing its end. so recently I switched to the onboard sound of my mobo :/  which seemed to work fine until.... THE SAME THING HAPPENED! so now i'm left to assume only that something is going wrong with the motherboard to cause this. Also, a lot of the time when the sound cuts out, there is a very sharp, loud popping sound right before I lose sound.
what is a boy to do? I love this mobo, and will probably just end up dealing with it for a long time before I invest any time/money into fixing it.
Specs:
MSI K9N2 Platinum nForce SLI, AM2+
AMD64 6000+ 3.1Ghz
4gb DDR2 800
PNY 9800 gt 1gb
What if you use onboard sound instead?