so I needed those few extra frames in medieval II and so I set the BIOS auto-overclocking to "sergeant" level (lol) and played MTWII and suddenly the PC shut itself down. I quickly disconnected the power and opened the case to smell burning plastic and red hot heatsink
BF2142 does not make the PC freeze up and squeek, though
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I just did a clean install of Win XP Pro. Prior to this, the sound was working fine. After the reinstall, no sound. The computer has a Creative SB Live sound card, device manager tells me that it is working correctly, and the speakers (Boston Acoustics with subwoofer) are set up exactly as before. I worked through troubleshooting and it still didnt help. I would appreciate any help. Not only does the system sounds not work, but I can no longer hear audio cds (Media player 10, shows the disk is playing but no sound from speakers).
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