Lockups on ALL gamez w/g400?

[Gh0st]

Hey guys...im having a strange problem right now. Yesterday my system was working fine and i was happily playing System Shock 2 all night...Now today for some reason, my system locks up right as it enters into ANY game i play. I see the game screen, and hear the sound, but the controls dont work and i have to do a hard restart. Sometimes i only get a black screen! I tried restoring my registry with the /restore command, still no luck. What the hell is wrong?? Help!
P3-450 128mb ram G400 16 meg Quantum 13gb hd SB Live!Value

[Beezer]

What version of LiveWare are you using? I've got a similar system as you: P3-450, 128 ram, Quantum 13GB, SBLive (liveware 3.0), Abit BE6 mobo, and G400 32MB OEM.

I never had any issues until I recently updated from liveware 2.1 to 3.0. Unfortunately at the same time, I also updated to the 5.41 pdesk drivers, so I'm not 100% sure where the problem is, but I think it with the Liveware (I've even read that that Lava program causes problems).

Not always, but once in a while I run into problems with games (mostly OGL games like Half-life and Quake 2) when CD music is requested. System just hangs with sound continuously looping until a hard reset. To fix it I have to go to the Audio Headquarters and under Diagnostics I click "Restore". It still stutters for a couple of seconds, but it doesn't freeze.

[Richard Beard]

You might try reseating your (G400) card.

Richard

[jlordsen]

Try forcing AGP 1x.

Strange thing, some days (once-twice a month) I must force it in order to use PC without problems. These are: freezed system with playing sound (sometimes evidently looped); coloured corupted screen, sometimes with boxed cursor etc.

It seems forcing AGP 1x helps.

JLordsen