Why with my Santa cruz sound card in my computer i get hard lockup in 3dmark2001SE and games. In games the sound repeats when its locks up. I am on windows 2000 pro with SP2.
 
Ok my system specs are:
 
Abit KT7A raid mobo
Athlon XP 1800+
256 MB of pc133 sdram by crucial
Maxtor 45 gig 7200 rpm HD with ATA 100, < 8.7 ms seek time, and three 15 gig platters.
Antec 330 watt TruePower Power supply. Specs on my power supply at antec's website just in case you want to see them.
Plextor 24x 10x 40x IDE CD-RW
HP 9110i 8x 4x 32x IDE CD-RW
floppy drive
3 suson case fans (one at the front of my case on the bottom to suck air in and two on the back to suck hot air out. Also my power supply has two fans so it sucks hot air out also!)
Santa Cruz pci sound card
Logitech Z340 2.1 speakers
Dlink DFE 530 TX + 10/100 Mbps pci ethernet card
Leadtek GF4 ti 4400 My Vivo retail video card
Full tower case.
 
Ok i did my own kind of test starting around 10:30 am with no Santa Cruz sound card in my computer. I have my Dlink DFE 530 TX + 10/100 Mbps pci ethernet card still in. The ethernet card is in pci 3 which shares a irq only with pci 2 and thats it. My sound card when i did have it in before was in pci 6 which shares with usb but i turned off usb because i never use it really. So yesterday at around 10:30 am i had my santa cruz sound card out of my system when i started 3dmark2001SE build 330. I left it running in infinite loops. I will stop it after 24 hours because i want to see if my system is stable in 3d graphics for 24 hours with no sound card. So far as i speak it has been 16 hours with no lockup or freeze which i was surprised. I remember when i tired testing out 3dmark 2001SE build 330 like 2 days ago with my santa cruz sound card in my computer on pci 6 with usb off and my ethernet card at pci 3 3dmark2001SE ran for about 5 to 6 hours then froze or lockuped up I mean it was better than before but still not like it should be. So far to me it is looking like the sound card is conflicting with my video card or my video card is conflicting with my sound card. I don't think its luck that without my santa cruz sound card in my pc its not locking up or freezing in 3dmark2001SE for 16 hours so far. I have tried games and they do lockup or freeze too. Like when my sound card is in it will lockup with the sound repeating. I have been reading online with a lot of people having this problem for some reason
 
This is what i have done so far to fix my locking up or freezing when my santa cruz sound card is in my pc:
 
I flashed to my latest bios
I tired changing my agp driving values
I tired changing my memory settings to not as fast
I tried without acpi
I made sure i had the latest drivers for my santa cruz sound card
I made sure i had the latest via 4 in 1 drivers
I tried lowering my sound hardware acceleration
I opened my case and put fan by it to make sure it was not a heat issue.
I tried changing ethernet and sound card pci cards around in some ways but it did not help any
I tired increasing voltages
I have tried a lot of different things i know but i can't remember every single one. I am sure i could say if i did or not if i had a list infront of me.
 
BTW with 3dmark2001 SE build 330 running for 16 hours is with my case sides on and no extra house fan blowing into case. So i have a good feeling its not a heat issue so far.