Specs:
Corsair TX750W
Core 2 Duo E6400 w/ Xigmatek HDT-S983 @ 2.56 Ghz
Gigabyte GA-965p-DQ6 Rev. 1.0
4GB G. Skill DDR2
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS
MSI Radeon HD 4830 w/Accelero S1 Rev.
Auzentech X-Fi Forte
Asus EHD3-100 TV/FM Tuner
This is the latest in an ongoing series of problems that I've had with my computer since trying to get my Asus EHD-100 to work. Let me give you a little background info.
When I got the EHD3-100, I decided to stick it in my only unobstructed PCI-e 1x slot. The problem was that I had my Auzentech Forte stuck in the 4x slot, which disables all of the 1x slots...and I had forgotten that. As you can imagine, things started acting up. After a kind AT member pointed out my mistake, I removed the tuner card and the sound card worked again. Something was clearly damaged, though - my system became unable to hold anything but a very modest overclock.
I do have another open PCI-e 1x slot, but it's obstructed by a heatsink. I wondered if there was some PCI-e 1x "extender cable" I could use to get around this, and sure enough, I found one on eBay. I moved the Forte to my unobstructed 1x slot, used the extender cable with the obstructed 1x slot, and it all worked flawlessly.
Then, two days ago, my system went crazy. I started getting random blue screens (Driver IRQL not less or equal) and reboots. Some of the time, it retains the OC settings and other times it reverts back to stock. I know when it reverts to stock because it'll always either throw up a blue screen before Windows finishes loading or right after it shows the login screen. But when I OC it, it usually boots just fine.
Things got even stranger just now when I was playing Battlefield 2. When I loaded it up the first time, my sound/video settings were somehow reset, so I put them back to normal and loaded it up again. This time, the graphics were screwed up ingame - half the ground looked like water, half was transparent...but character models were fine. I loaded it again and the graphics were back to normal, but after a few rounds the sound started acting up - there was a lot of muffled static and I'd only hear the first half-second or so of sounds. I closed out of it and I'm back here in Windows...with no sound.
Seriously, I don't even know where to begin with this other than I might have unfortunately done my system in. If you've got any ideas, I'm certainly open to suggestions.
Corsair TX750W
Core 2 Duo E6400 w/ Xigmatek HDT-S983 @ 2.56 Ghz
Gigabyte GA-965p-DQ6 Rev. 1.0
4GB G. Skill DDR2
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS
MSI Radeon HD 4830 w/Accelero S1 Rev.
Auzentech X-Fi Forte
Asus EHD3-100 TV/FM Tuner
This is the latest in an ongoing series of problems that I've had with my computer since trying to get my Asus EHD-100 to work. Let me give you a little background info.
When I got the EHD3-100, I decided to stick it in my only unobstructed PCI-e 1x slot. The problem was that I had my Auzentech Forte stuck in the 4x slot, which disables all of the 1x slots...and I had forgotten that. As you can imagine, things started acting up. After a kind AT member pointed out my mistake, I removed the tuner card and the sound card worked again. Something was clearly damaged, though - my system became unable to hold anything but a very modest overclock.
I do have another open PCI-e 1x slot, but it's obstructed by a heatsink. I wondered if there was some PCI-e 1x "extender cable" I could use to get around this, and sure enough, I found one on eBay. I moved the Forte to my unobstructed 1x slot, used the extender cable with the obstructed 1x slot, and it all worked flawlessly.
Then, two days ago, my system went crazy. I started getting random blue screens (Driver IRQL not less or equal) and reboots. Some of the time, it retains the OC settings and other times it reverts back to stock. I know when it reverts to stock because it'll always either throw up a blue screen before Windows finishes loading or right after it shows the login screen. But when I OC it, it usually boots just fine.
Things got even stranger just now when I was playing Battlefield 2. When I loaded it up the first time, my sound/video settings were somehow reset, so I put them back to normal and loaded it up again. This time, the graphics were screwed up ingame - half the ground looked like water, half was transparent...but character models were fine. I loaded it again and the graphics were back to normal, but after a few rounds the sound started acting up - there was a lot of muffled static and I'd only hear the first half-second or so of sounds. I closed out of it and I'm back here in Windows...with no sound.
Seriously, I don't even know where to begin with this other than I might have unfortunately done my system in. If you've got any ideas, I'm certainly open to suggestions.