Playing Bejeweled, WMA files, and DVD's crashes my computer

[bobdarrah]

When listening to music that I have downloaded, or watching a DVD movie, or playing Bejeweled that I downloaded for my wife, suddenly my computer emits a high pitch and freezes. The high pitch continues until I hard boot the computer. This happens when I am running just the one application or many.

I have a Gateway PIII, 1000, 512 mb of ram. I have a Leadtek Windows 2000 XP Deluxe video capture card, Comcast Motorolla Surfboard modem, and Soundblaster Audigy II Value sound card. Everything else was standard with the computer when I bought it new. The only other thing that I can think of is it has digital speakers.

I have had problems with Windows XP Professional corrupting itself when I stepped up to a 160 GB hard drive but have solved that problem by partitioning the drive.

Anybody have the answer to my problem or at least a good guess? Or if this problem has come up before, could you send me to that thread?

Thanks in advance!

Bob Darrah
West Linn, Oregon

[ski]

The CPU may be overheating.
What is its temperature, and also the system's temperature, when the high pitched alarm sounds off?

[bobdarrah]

I don't know about system or CPU heat. Where do I find info on how to measure the heat and solutions to heat problems?

Again, Thanks!

Bob Darrah
West Linn, Oregon

[ski]

You may be able to find the temperatures in your MB's BIOS.
If so, then you can d/l the 'MB Monitor' program at the following site, which will mirror the BIOS data on your Desktop for convenience:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7309,00.asp