Myst V: End Of Ages Freezing Problem Solved

I could not play Myst V after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4.8 or 9. Video would stop on a still frame, while audio continued on. Apparently the latest versions of the Mac OS have reverted to an earlier version of the ATI ROM Extender file, which is located in System/Library/Extensions/AppleNDRV. The version of that file supplied with 10.4.8 and 10.4.9 is 1.2.2f2. I found a later version, 1.2.7f2 on my TechTool e-Drive partition, which is running Mac OS X 10.4.6 (IIRC). Replacing that file has allowed me to play Myst V again. There is still a little stumbling in the video during Yeesha's monologue at the beginning of the game, but it recovers itself without freezing the computer.
Hope this helps anyone with Myst V problems.
PowerMac Dual 2.7 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) May 2005 Build

Some time after I wrote the above "tip," thinking it was the solution, my computer froze once again. As a result, I downgraded to 10.4 with its bundled ATI software version 1.4, and tested again. Same problem... cursor freeze at random spots in the game. So, one iteration at a time, I upgraded the Mac OS X (along with its supplied ATI bundles), testing Myst V with each one. And every one, all the way to 10.4.9 with its ATI bundle v1.4.18, had the same problem. The ATI ROM Extender really did not help, although the game did pick that configuration to work for the longest time, not freezing until well into the Age of Taghira.
I have since added 1 GB of RAM (no help either), and have also played with the Activity Monitor, killing all the processes that would stay dead before starting the game. No help.
Incidentally, somewhere in the updating of the Mac OS and its ATI graphics software, the ATI ROM Extender disappeared. I am thinking it may be supplied with ATI's software for retail cards, which was another thing I tried installing. But I have only the Apple-supplied ATI 9650 graphics, which apparently doesn't require the ROM Extender. At least, the game works about as well without it as with it.
Sorry if I have misled anyone. I'm still working the problem. I have found that the "Default" Video Options chosen by the Myst V program for my computer may be too optimistic. I have found that by moving the "Anti-aliasing" and/or the "Anisotropic filtering" sliders to the left, that the frequency of freezes is reduced, but not eliminated.
The puzzle remains: Why did it work a year ago on this computer but not now? Perhaps dust on the graphics circuitry is causing it to run hotter? Any ideas out there?

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Re: Myst V: End Of Ages Freezing Problem Solved

The post is the answer.

Some time after I wrote the above "tip," thinking it was the solution, my computer froze once again. As a result, I downgraded to 10.4 with its bundled ATI software version 1.4, and tested again. Same problem... cursor freeze at random spots in the game. So, one iteration at a time, I upgraded the Mac OS X (along with its supplied ATI bundles), testing Myst V with each one. And every one, all the way to 10.4.9 with its ATI bundle v1.4.18, had the same problem. The ATI ROM Extender really did not help, although the game did pick that configuration to work for the longest time, not freezing until well into the Age of Taghira.
I have since added 1 GB of RAM (no help either), and have also played with the Activity Monitor, killing all the processes that would stay dead before starting the game. No help.
Incidentally, somewhere in the updating of the Mac OS and its ATI graphics software, the ATI ROM Extender disappeared. I am thinking it may be supplied with ATI's software for retail cards, which was another thing I tried installing. But I have only the Apple-supplied ATI 9650 graphics, which apparently doesn't require the ROM Extender. At least, the game works about as well without it as with it.
Sorry if I have misled anyone. I'm still working the problem. I have found that the "Default" Video Options chosen by the Myst V program for my computer may be too optimistic. I have found that by moving the "Anti-aliasing" and/or the "Anisotropic filtering" sliders to the left, that the frequency of freezes is reduced, but not eliminated.
The puzzle remains: Why did it work a year ago on this computer but not now? Perhaps dust on the graphics circuitry is causing it to run hotter? Any ideas out there?

Myst V End of Ages

How do I make a disc image from Myst V End of Ages so I can prevent wearing out my CD/DVD optical drive and preserve the original game disc?
Myst V End of Ages has a copy protection installed. This protection is "very" robust and simply will not allow the legal owner of the disc run the software program from a disc image through the use of standard normal means of disc imaging.
This places the original disc at risk of being worn out and places unnecessary wear on the optical drive.
All previous versions of Myst allowed disc imaging.
By copyright law the legal owner of copyrighted material has the right to produce one working archive copy of intellectual property for personal private use and or library. Problem is, so many have abused this right that theft became a major problem for UbiSoft so copy protection was employed.
Without purchasing or utilizing some form of illegal piracy software or method, Myst V simply will not allow itself to be copied and always demands that the program be booted with the original disc in the optical drive.
Since the software is out of production, the legal owner needs a means to preserve the original disc.
After numerous attempts and numerous failures I figured out how to make the program run from a disc image without the need for anything but Apple system software. All perfectly legal.
It is so simple it almost hurts to define it.
1. Make a disc image from the original disc.
2. Mount the disc image.
3. Put the original disc in the optical drive while the disc image is still mounted. (two Myst V images will be on the desktop)
4. Launch Myst V.
5. Eject the original disc from the optical drive.
That's It!
Myst V will NOT launch with the disc image. It will only launch with the original disc in the optical drive.
Myst will continue to run with only the disc image mounted even if the optical disc is ejected.
You CANNOT use the disc image to make a working copy by any legal means that I am aware of but you can now preserve your original disc with minimal use and avoid wear and tear on your optical drive.
The game only requires that the program be launched with the original disc in the optical drive. It does not require that the original disc remain in the optical drive during use.

Good info.
I have a complex flight sim, X-Plane, that does it a little easier. Launch, wait until everything loads, then eject the DVD. Like the Myst series, it helps to have a big hard drive. The folder contain X-Plane, its aircraft, airport and navaid databases, plus the geography of the entire world, needs nearly 7GB of hard drive real estate.

Myst V End of Ages Intel Patch Problem

The intel patch for the game doesn't seem to work properly. Once the installer is created and the DVD ejected it shows:
AppleScript Error
The Command exited with a non-zero status. (1)
Even when you click ok it continues "Patching Installer" without actually doing anything (I had it for about 1 and a half hour running). Can anyone help?

The Patch has been removed from both the Ubisoft Support site and Apple Games Demos & Updates site! Let's hope for a real Universal Binary patch!

IPhone freezes - problem solved

re: my iPhone which used to freeze intermittently with 1.0.2 froze constantly with 1.1.1
I went to the Genius Bar today at the local apple store and they gave me a new phone. So wonderful to have a phone that I don't have to reboot every 5 minutes.
So, moral is, if your phone is freezing often then it's probably defective and it should be replaced.
just FYI:

To attract other users to the solution you found, reply to your own post and mark this reply as "solved". That way users with a similar problem will find this thread more easy.

Myst V: End of Ages crashes on 128MB VRAM!

Hi all!
I got Myst V as a present and installed it this weekend. The game keeps crashing, I still hear the sound as if the game was proceding normally but my cursor is frozen, I have no access to the desktop, keyboard shortcuts to Force Quit do not work and I have to shut down the iMac G5 the hard way, i.e. holding down the Startup button till it shuts down.
I have posted in the Ubisoft forums and it seems it affects only ATI graphics cards, Macs with nVidia cards do not seem to be concerned too much by this problem. The solution offered so far is to take off antialiasing and a setting called anistropic filtering for gameplay which takes away a lot of the magic because the game looks crappy. And seriously? I see people in that thread trying to play the game on dual G5 Power Macs and have the same problem I encounter! And I can't believe that my graphics card, the ATI X600 XT with 128MG VRAM can't play this non-action game at better settings!
Ubisoft resends the elevator to Apple, saying that Apple writes its own drivers for the graphics cards that are installed in Macs so it doesn't look like a patch from Ubi is in the works.
I have heard about ATIccelerator II, a hack for overclocking ATI graphics cards but I don't want to install it as I am afraid it would void my warranty if something were to go wrong.
Would anyone have another solution? Is this true that Apple is the one that should update the ATI drivers? Or should Ubisoft do something about this situation? I really don't know where to go on this one...
Thank you for your input.
20" iSight iMac G5 - 1.5GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I'm confident it isn't a RAM problem either, but the reason I mention this is that I added RAM to my iBook except that I never could complete the OS X install to a Firewire hard drive. I ran the extended hardware test (the RAM passed the TechTools test) and it found a problem. My dealer replaced the RAM with another and all is well. So just because the RAM is recognized and works doesn't mean there is some part of it that is faulty and causing an otherwise untraceable problem.
I'm using the default settings for Myst 5. I understand that lots of Mac users are having problems with Myst but why aren't other Mac users having the same problems?
Have you tried creating a new User account and running the game from that user?
Here's what in the Myst 5 install Read Me:
3.6. Mac Known Problems
- It is very important to upgrade your Mac OSX version to OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.5. Some important fixes have been made in Mac OSX that will upgrade the overall quality of the game and prevent some random crashes.
- OSX users with Java 1.3.1 or older will need to upgrade to Java 1.4 in order to install the game. Use the Software Update feature found on the Mac to get the latest updates.
- This application will not work properly on Mac's with the Intel Processor (or maybe very slowly via Rosetta).
- There are minor graphic problems with the nVidia GeForce MX and ATI Radeon under Mac OS 10.2.8.

Frame sequence to quicktime ends up with freeze frames at end

I'm just using Compressor 3.5.0 to convert animation file sequence (24fps) into quicktime Proress422HQ (23.976fps). Any settings end up with freeze frame at the end of clip. I've tried 24fps to 24fps and still got same problem. Being curious, I've tried to convert to MPEG4, and still got the same problem. Originally the source format is PNG sequence, and I've convert the PNG into TIFF for test purpose. Still no luck. Does anyone ever experienced the same problem? Thanks for sharing.

Solved by changing the frame rate of the footage (image sequence) into any other frame rate, then change back to desired frame rate. In my case, after load the image sequence >check inspector of footage >change current frame rate (from 24fps to other fps) >change back frame rate to 24fps. Same bug in version 3.5.2. Hope it helps.

How to problem solve adf issue in the mx340 model

how to problem solve adf issue in the mx340 model

Alex,
the missing thing in your example is the fact, that if only one value is selected, the parameter has exact this value like BOSTON. If you choose more than one value, the parameter includes the *'*, so that it looks like *'BOSTON','NEW YORK'*. So you need to check in the package, if there's a *,* in the parameter or not. If yes there's more than one value, if not it's only one value or it's null.
So change your package to (you need to expand your variables)
create or replace package bip_departments_2_parameters
as
p_dep_2_param varchar2(1000);
p_loc_1_param varchar2(1000);
p_where_clause varchar2(1000);
function beforereporttrigger
return boolean;
end bip_departments_2_parameters;
create or replace package body bip_departments_2_parameters
as
function beforereporttrigger
return boolean
is
l_return boolean := true;
begin
p_where_clause := ' ';
if p_dep_2_param is not null then
if instr(p_dep_2_param,',')>0 then
p_where_clause := 'WHERE DNAME in ('||p_dep_2_param||')';
else
p_where_clause := 'WHERE DNAME = '''||p_dep_2_param||'''';
end if;
if p_loc_1_param is not null then
if instr(p_loc_1_param,',')>0 then
p_where_clause := p_where_clause || ' AND LOC IN ('||p_loc_1_param||')';
else
p_where_clause := p_where_clause || ' AND LOC = '''||p_loc_1_param||'''';
end if;
end if;
else
if p_loc_1_param is not null then
if instr(p_loc_1_param,',')>0 then
p_where_clause := p_where_clause || 'WHERE LOC in ('||p_loc_1_param||')';
else
p_where_clause := p_where_clause || 'WHERE LOC = '''||p_loc_1_param||'''';
end if;
end if;
end if;
return (l_return);
end beforereporttrigger;
end bip_departments_2_parameters;
I've written a similar example at http://www.oracle.com/global/de/community/bip/tipps/Dynamische_Queries/index.html ... but it's in german.
Regards
Rainer

Dr.Watson problems solved.

DR.WATSON PROBLEMS SOLVED:
System:
WLS 5.1 with SP11 running on NT4 Using OCI817_8.
Oracle 7.3.4 running on NT4.
Problems:
Dr.Watson exceptions in native code...
# An EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception has been detected in native code outside
the VM.
# Program counter=0x60239689
When asking BEA and Oracle:
"Use the latest OCI available. It is backward compatible !"
What have been done to solve the problem:
Going through all SQL code (and doing some rewriting), configuring connection
pools (TestOnReserve / TestOnRelease, refresh, etc) and several other configurations...
At last, we tried to change to the OCI version matching the Oracla versions we
were connecting to (from OCI817_8 to OCI734_7).
Voila ! NO MORE DR.WATSON EXCEPTIONS !
Our conclusion:
If possible, use the OCI version that matches the Oracle version you are running
on.

Hi Abhijit
Couple of pointers which could resolve the issue:
1. Since you are using the JDBC-ODBC bridge what occurs internally is that your JDBC API through the Virtual Machine make calls into the ODBC API on your Windows system. So the Watson error that you are getting is probably an illegal access by one of the methods in the ODBC API - this is for the Diagnosis part.
2. The Solution part -
a. Should I change my JDBC-ODBC driver? Not necessarily because the problems could be with the ODBC interface implementation and changing the driver might not help.
b. Should I change my programming style? This is one thing which could really help. The problem with creating connections each time is that it takes a lot of resources to do it, So there is a performance degradation. What you could do inyour code is use a Java Bean to create the required Connection. You can also think of using a prepared statement appropriately encapsulate it since you are invoking a particular query repeatedly. In your JSP page you can retrive(create) this bean through the jsp:useBean tag with the session as the scope attribute. The <jsp:setProperty methods could also be used to set the DSN name and the driver.
Once this bean is successfully created you have an open connection.
Now for the part you have pasted - replace the create connections with getting a new Statement object which would hold your Query. At the end of the JSP just close the Statement object.
Once you are done updating the page you may transfer the control to a different JSP - Let that transfer trigger the connection close in the Java bean.
This should solve the Dr.Watson problem.
Good Luck!
Eshwar Rao
Developer Technical Support
Sun microsystems inc
http://www.sun.com/developers/support

MDD freezing problem can anyone help?

Hey
Ive been having quite majer problems with my mac. It crashes regularly and im not sure why. It will freeze any time even when running safari and has been known to do it 5 times in one day!!! These are the possable problems i can think of.
1. Hardware problem though i have tested all my ram with memtest and the apple hardware test Cd and it says its fine.
2. i was thinking my mac could be overheating, can this cause it to crash? At the moment its is running at 58.3 *C and all im running is safari, im not even running any widgets. The CPU fan is almost always on (though not at full speed) even when running just safari and i think the barings in the fan could be on their way out because it doesnt sound like the fan is running smoothly at all.
Would it be worth buying a new fan and getting a copper heatsink to bring the temperature down? Im not sure if i should do this in case it doesnt work as it well set me back over £100, if there is no way of finding and fixing the problem i was thinking of getting a macpro though as im a student it will take me about a year to get my hands on that kind of cash
If it helps these are the specs of my mac:
Powermac G4 MDD 1.25DP
1.5GB RAM
OSX 10.4.8 (im running this beacuse 10.4.9 is incompatable with final cut HD 3.0)
GForce 4MX
1X 80GB PATA
1X 200GB PATA
ASUS DVD R (put in a week ago though there were problems with crashing before this)
Can anyone give me some advice on what to do?
Thanks
Tom

Assuming you are reading that CPU temperature with Temperature Monitor software, the specified upper limit for your CPU is 62 degrees C. Therefore, 58.3 degrees shouldn't be causing your freeze problems. Look for other possibilities.
Not that this is your problem, but a friend's upgraded Sawtooth G4 started having freeze problems in Tiger after running several months without any problems. Turns out he had his old DVD-ROM in a Firewire box connected via Firewire to his G4 and the unit started crapping out. Still not sure if the core problem is the DVD-ROM drive or the Firewire case or the Firewire connection, but disconnecting the unit ended his suddenly arising freeze problems.
Try using your MDD G4 with all Firewire and USB (except the keyboard and mouse of course) stuff disconnected from the tower case. If that ends your freezes, it will be a simple process of elimination to find the offending USB or Firewire item.
Good luck,
Carl B.

PROBLEM SOLVED--CS5 WIN7 X64 INSTALL ERROR DEPENDENCY FAILURE

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just spent 9 hours straight on this, but will was stronger than "its". Now I have both cs4 and cs5, but hopefully it will work if you just have cs5 as well. I also did not try runnning cs5 installer first after implementing the fix, maybe that will work too..And when getting the cs5 error, I went to re-install cs4 but got an error as well so that is why I took the steps I did. On 7x64 do the followin
First run the cs5 cleanup tool and reboot.
Second, go into c:\program file(x86)\common files\adobe\installers . Delete everything in it
Then go into you registry (start, run, then type regedit) and expand to this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\ Components ...(if this isnt there, try an install again, then go to the folder that you deleted the files from a moment ago and extract the log from the zip file and open it and go to the end. where it says error 1402 will be followed by a unknown\components\(a bunch of numebers right here)\(more numbers) ...
Copy the numbers directly after the components\ and go back into registry and click edit then "find" paste those numbers into the box and hit find..when you get to the key, scroll ALL the way back up to components again. Right click components and hit permissions.. Go to advanced and then the ownership tab up top.. click edit, hightlight administrator(s), check the box to "replace subcontainers" and click apply. respond yes to everything and close that and hit apply again if asked. then click the add button above the advanced button you just clicked. when the new box appears, click advanced and then click find now. Highlight Administrators and SYSTEM and hit OK. Then give both of them full rights and hit apply. Then click advanced again and in the first window check the box that says "replace all child objects...." and hit apply. accept the prompts and hit okay.
Now go into c:\windows and on the system32 folder, right click and go to properties. Go to the security tab. Click advanced and then "owner" and click edit. highlght administrators and check the box "replace all child object....." again and hit apply....
Now give Administrators, SYSTEM, AND TrustedInstaller full rights by clicking edit above the advanced tab in the first properties box.. Then click advanced again and in the first window click replace all child object....." again and hit apply....
Now do the same for the winsxs folder and (for good measure i did syswow64 but not sure if its necessary)...
Now you should be able to install both versions..(as i said, I installed cs4 first, maybe it was not necessary)...
If you dont like the idea of just blindly giving administrators full rights to all system folders, you can spend MANY MANY hours running the installs over and over and getting the faulty registry value that caused it to fail and create specific permissions for that and then go on to the next value that fails......what a pain
Message was edited by: DarkMatter78

Thank you for this.
I have been trying to install CS5 MC now for weeks. I first got it to install everything except After Effects and Premiere Pro. Then trying to follow all the suggestions on this forum I wound up not being able to install any part of it at all. Now..
Well...following your kind suggestions as much to the letter as I could I have now been able to install everything...except Affter Effects and Premiere Pro. Sigh.
At least I can get back to work on everything that doesn't require AE and PPro. I still need to get them installed and working.

Mail & Adress Book: issues sending group mail - Problem solved

I started writing this discussion because I could not get something to work. As I wrote it, I made many tests to confirm what I was writing and also read several past discussions on the subject. I ended up solving my problem and decided to share my findings. Hope it is useful to other people.
EMAIL TO A GROUP WITH ALL RECIEPIENTS SHOWING IN THE «TO» HEADER - My problem solved
SENDING FROM THE MAIL APPLICATION:
To start do the following: Mail/Preferences/Composing check «Show members of a group»
Then for a group name with two or more words OR wit a one word group name, start writing the group name in the «TO» header of an email wait until the « () » appears highlithed in a color as you slowly write the Address Book group name and then select the group name from the scroling list appearing below which comes from your Adress Book (whether it's open or not). If you choose in a selection list before the « () » appears as you type, you could end up with an empty list and the group email does not work. When the « () » does not yet appear but the group name does below, it most likely will not work but if you scroll down you may find a second one that will. The whole thing is wear but once you get the hang of it you make it work everytime.
SENDING FROM THE ADDRESS BOOK APPLICATION:
If you try to send the email to a group from the application ADRESS BOOK by pressing «ctrl» & right clicking the name of the group and select «Send an email to GROUP-NAME», it will work also. But the group name must not have a space before its name in the Address Book (one could decide to do this to have a group to appear at the top of a list of groups). The latter was my problem and sending from the address book application did not work.
EMAIL TO A GROUP WITH «UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS» SHOWING IN THE «TO» HEADER - My problem solved
First one has to uncheck the «Show members of a group» in Mail/Preferences/Composing
Second strat a new email and proceed as described above in «1.» in the second and third paragraph.
As suggested in one discussion, if you still can not get it to work try closing your Mail and Address Book applications and re-open them.
As suggeted in another discussion by Ernie Stamper on May 15 2009 in the «Can't send an email to a group»:
«In Mail Preferences/Composing, select to Show members of a group, and then compose a message (no need to send for this test) using the group address -- do the 9 addresses show in the message header? If so, then report the name of the provider of the SMTP you are using. It might be that they do not allow the Group in the To -- when working correctly, the recipient sees only Undesignated Recipients in the header.»
I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.5 and Mail 5.3 (1283) on an iMac 2009
Can't send an email to a group.

Hi Priyanka,
I can't get it working. I get this error:
2007/03/25 17:23:00] Error in evaluate <from> expression at line "98". The result is empty for the XPath expression : "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')".
[2007/03/25 17:23:00] "{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/}selectionFailure" has been thrown.less
- <selectionFailure xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/">
- <part name="summary">
<summary>
empty variable/expression result.
xpath variable/expression expression "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')" is empty at line 98, when attempting reading/copying it.
Please make sure the variable/expression result "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')" is not empty.
</summary>
</part
In users-properties.xml I have this:
<userObject>
     <name>esbMailTo</name>
        <description>MailTo</description>
     <mail>[email protected]</mail>
     <title>Loan Agent 1</title>
     <firstName>James</firstName>
     <lastName>Cooper</lastName>
     <manager>jstein</manager>
        <timeZone>America/Los_Angeles</timeZone>
     <languagePreference>en-US</languagePreference>
     <notificationPreferences>Mail</notificationPreferences>
     </userObject> Any ideas?
Regards Pete

Did the new MBA fix the overheating/freezing problem??

hi everyone!
i'd like to ask anyone who has tried out the new MacBook Air: have they fixed the overheating/freezing problem??
i've had 3 MBAs over the 3 years (all different versions) and they were all overheating - i.e. when i was using them for a while and had more internet pages/applications opened they started to get really hot and at some point the computer slowed down to a point where i could not work anymore and had to just close it and let it cool down for a while. playing a youtube video without problems is almost impossible.
i love all the other features of the MacBook Air, but this slowing down is super annoying, especially for someone who spends hours at a computer daily.
plus the other day my friend who has a MacBook Pro asked why my computer was so loud - i never noticed but the fans are just so noisy compared to hers.
so please let me know what are your experiences with the new one compared to the older ones.
thanks a lot!

I have the high end 13" macbook air that came down to about 2000 cnd. It overheats quite frequently though. I find it the strangest when I am only watching netflix on safari. maybe 2 tabs opened with mail and preview app opened... Dont even have to mention other things.. it heats up when I am coding on Coda.. using photoshop (2 files opened)..
Another thing is that sometimes it doesnt register to the current time immediately. After I wake it up from sleep, I have to wait abotu 3-5 secs until the cursor can respond and the time is corrected (usually the time is at when I closed the macbook air.)
Have you guys heard of these problems?
Thx

Freeze Problem (EAX and MI

Hello everyone. I have had my SoundBlaster Audigy 2 for almost a year now and it has always had this problem. I will be in the middle of an EAX game or playing back a MIDI file and the entire system locks up completely with a high pitched squeel continuously emanating from my speakers.
My system:
Intel P3 900 Mhz
Audigy 2
52 MB RAM
G-Force 3 Ti 200
This is very important for me to fix now that I am starting to focus on MIDI some more with my music recording.
I read in a few other threads where other people have had this problem. I haven't tried any of these suggestions just yet, but switching the PCI slot and updating the MoBo BIOS were ineffecti've for them. I am willing to try this though if anyone thinks it will actually help. I'll have a problem updating my BIOS though because I don't exactly know what my MoBo is and I have a Dell proprietary Intel processor.
Thanks for any help.

I have this exact same problem when I play certain computer games. Exact freezing/screeching noises every few minutes followed by me having to cold reboot the PC...
Anyway, long story short, I've concluded the the culprit is most likely Creative's crummy drivers and EAX. When I disable EAX (i.e. use Software 3D audio, etc) the freezing problem is completely resolved.
Regardless, I'd like this problem fixed by Creative with some new drivers, I supposed. I have the Audigy Gamer sound card, and there has not been a driver update since November 2002. Yes, the problem is solved by not using EAX, but then why did I buy an EAX-capable card again?
A few facts (or at least reasonably true according to my observations over the past year):
-This freezing/high pitched sound looping only happens in games or programs with EAX/hardware 3-D audio enabled
-With EAX disabled (i.e. just using software sound or regular 3-D stereo) from the game or program options, the freezing is nonexistant.
-With EAX enabled, I get the sound looping/freeze with many different video drivers and motherboard BIOS versions, Windows SP and SP2, all patches, newest drivers, cleanly reinstalled system, etc. - the fact is that EAX and Creative's drivers are to blame here.
My current specs for comparison's sake:
Windows XP Pro with SP2
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHzGB DDR400 RAMAbit IC-7 mobo60 GB SATA, 60 GB IDE, 20 GB SATASoundblaster Audigy GamerRadeon 9800 PRO (latest Catalyst drivers)
Creative, what's the deal? Gi've us XP drivers that aren't buggy.
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Message Edited by slicknick986 on -27-2004 07:3 PM

Each time the firefox will make com hangs awhile when ply a sound, after close firefox the problem solved.

When Firefox opened, and the system ply a sound, the com will hang awhile, but after I close Firefox, the problem solved itself, if I disable all plugins, the problem solved, can help check which plugins will cause this problem or this is Firefox problem???
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== ply a sound

I changed the setting, but unfortunately, this didn't fix the problem. This situation does seem to occur more, when I load or reload my eBay home page. I noticed that all data and information would go ahead and load, but the random ads bar would not immediately load and when I would left click anywhere on the page, Firefox would temporarily freeze, the page turns white, Firefox not responding will display, and then the banner would load and everything is fine. I'm wondering if it has something to do with my Flash Player. Any additional suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Reggie

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