Graphics Errors + Sound Cracking

Hello all!

Bit of an issue I seem to be having any time I go to play a game, watch a video, or sometimes even just listening to music. My sound will start to crack and the graphics on the screen start pixeliating and appearing in random places... sort of like the screen is flashing and glitching out... not sure what is causing it... Any ideas?

Any freezing or BSODs? If so, could be the mobo (nforces are a bit touchy), but it could also be overheating (probably VRAM if I had to guess). Could even be the old SCP issue that Creative sound cards run into, although that seems unlikely...

BSOD = Blue Screen Of Death, occurs when Windows encounters a fatal error.

This sounds like the nforce lockup that plauges all nforce motherboards, although the issue itself seems quite random (I'm guessing memory corruption if Windows doesn't even get the chance to BSOD). Your chipset is a nforce4 I believe...

Basically, at totally random points (usually startup, videos, or gaming), your sound gets crackly, comp slows to almost nothing, then totally freezes, with the last sequence of sounds repeating, and possible graphics glitches. I fought this issue on my 790i for over a year, and finally got it stable (1 lockup in past three months, as opposed to 2-3 a day for over a year)

I really don't have a permant solution other then more Northbridge/RAM Voltage, and a 1:1 link between the FSB-RAM. Less agressive RAM timings and a lower memory speed may also help.

Below is the thread where I posted what I had to do to get stable (someone else with the same issue started it). Doesn't seem to work for everyone, but worth looking at. The only true 'fix' I know of is to change to an intel/amd based chipset.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] w=0&nojs=0