MSI K8N SLI - Freezes Randomly - Need Help!!!

Hi,
Can anybody help me? My PC keeps freezing and sometimes BSOD'ing on me and i have no idea what the hell the reason is. I've tried changing graphics drivers, sound drivers, checked for bios updates and all the usual stuff. I've had a scou around the net and these forums and quite a few people seem to be having this problem and appears to be related to the PCIe Graphics. Not sure if this is the case but a lot of peole report this. One person said it was his audigy card and on removing it the problem went away. But, I don't fancy sacrificing my audigy card for the onchip sound if I can find a work around.
Is it the motherboard at fault with the PCIe interface or the Audigy or something else? If anyone has any ideas it would be fantastic!
AMD Athlon64 3000+
MSI K8N SLI OEM
Corsair DDR400 Dual Channel Value RAM
Leadtek GeForce 6800GT
Audigy 2 ZS
Samsung 40BG SATA HD
DVD-ROM
CD-R/RW
Jeantech 500W PSU

Hello !!
Try this NEW Forceware Drivers 81.85 they fix many issues with SLI systems.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.85.html
Don´t forget to deinstall your existing drivers correctly before installing the new ones.
Good Luck
Greetz MurdoK

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Quote from: ALFA on 25-April-05, 10:09:30
This mobo is good but its false advertisment to call it overclock friendly.
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I agree with SAB only because mine has been rock solid for quite some time. If I could afford it, I would have purchased SAB's PC Power & Cooling 510 model.
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