Iam new so bear with me here please. I have a via 533 mother board with a pentuim 4 2.4 g with only a audio card. No graphics card. Im having problems with any extra video operations.But what is weird is that if I do anything with sound, like listen to a radio station online or play a cd, I loss all sound and sometimes the damn thing locks up and i have to reboot. Do I need a graphics card to slove this problem

Hi - Welcome to the PC Guide Forum!

I've had a quick google, and found this: http://www.mainboard.cz/mb/via/P4MAPro533.htm

Is this your motherboard? (VIA P4MAPro533)

this system has onboard graphics, which are agp8, - this should be fine for everything except demanding games.
Playing audio and having problems shouldn't have anything to do with the graphics card, although if you are having problems with graphics as well, you need to look at each problem individually.

Sound problems causing lock-ups can be due to several things, but the first place I'd look is device drivers - go into control panel>system>hardware>device manager and see if there are any yellow boxes or red marks next to any of the devices - if you select the device, you can choose to upgrade the drivers if necessary.
A similar approach should be used with the graphics card, but do make sure you do things separately - it doesn't do anything for your learning process if you try to do too much at once and not be able to figure out what the actual cure was.

How much RAM do you have in the system? What OS are you using?
do you use a firewall/antivirus? post back with some more details and we'll be able to steer you in the right direction.

I have 736 ram operating on XP professional I've tried all the drivers I found with service tech a Mainboard. Its been suggested that the maotherboard might be the problem




Hi - Welcome to the PC Guide Forum!

I've had a quick google, and found this: http://www.mainboard.cz/mb/via/P4MAPro533.htm

Is this your motherboard? (VIA P4MAPro533)

this system has onboard graphics, which are agp8, - this should be fine for everything except demanding games.
Playing audio and having problems shouldn't have anything to do with the graphics card, although if you are having problems with graphics as well, you need to look at each problem individually.

Sound problems causing lock-ups can be due to several things, but the first place I'd look is device drivers - go into control panel>system>hardware>device manager and see if there are any yellow boxes or red marks next to any of the devices - if you select the device, you can choose to upgrade the drivers if necessary.
A similar approach should be used with the graphics card, but do make sure you do things separately - it doesn't do anything for your learning process if you try to do too much at once and not be able to figure out what the actual cure was.

How much RAM do you have in the system? What OS are you using?
do you use a firewall/antivirus? post back with some more details and we'll be able to steer you in the right direction.

I have 736 ram operating on XP professional I've tried all the drivers I found with service tech a Mainboard. Its been suggested that the maotherboard might be the problem I do have a yellow flag on Video Controller (VGA COMPATIBLE) but it says that windows engaged it but it not working properly and still isn't working