Sound dies, goes BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

[Miraluka]

Just as the subject says. Randomly, my sound will die out while running some application, be it playing mp3's, watching movies, or playing games. Its really annoying. All of a sudden it'll just die out and go BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP, and it won't stop unless i restart. This has happened about 15 times within the past 8 hours. its REALLY annoying.
I'm running the onboard sound for my MSi K7T Pro2-A mobo, AC97 sound or something.

Is it a driver issue? And if so, i haven't been able to find any updates for it, i'm using the latest i could find. Or is it a hardware issue? I kinda don't wanna have to buy a new Sound Card.

System Specs:
MSi K7T Pro2-A
Duron 800
Crucial 256mb PC133 Cas2
Voodoo3 2000
Generic floppy
generic 32x cdrom
Smart & Friendly 8x/20 CD-R
Linksys Etherfast 10/100 NIC
and some sort of SCSI 1 card for the burner.
1 Maxtor 5400rpm 30 gig HD, ata33
1 Seagate 7200rpm 30 gig HD, ata66

 

[Miraluka]

Bippity Boppity BUMP!!!

 

[cvlegion]

If you are not experiencing any other problems, I would say it is most likely drivers. I would just get a Live Value for $50 or the Santa Cruz for $70. Either way you go, it will sound much better.

 

[Entity23]

that happens sometimes to me when listening to mp3's. But my cpu just crashes and blares this beep.