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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Beany on February 27, 2004, 05:27

Title: Can't play games because..
Post by: Beany on February 27, 2004, 05:27

I keep getting this error message appear whenever I quit the game and sometimes whilst I'm playing. From this error message my only option is to reset the machine.

Take a look

http://meshybeats.com/beany/pictures/error/error02.jpg

If anyone can help me it would make my life just that little more stress free.
Thx

Title: Re:Can't play games because..
Post by: Adept on February 27, 2004, 07:14

Hi Beany :welcome:

CMUDA.SYS is causing the problem. It is a driver for a C-MEDIA sound chip.

Possibly, installing the latest drivers will cure problem. If the drivers from your sound card (or motherboard) manufacturer's site do not cure the problem, there may be some certified drivers available from Microsoft which will work.

HTH

Title: Re:Can't play games because..
Post by: Beany on February 27, 2004, 13:22

Yeeha.
Thanks Adept. After some searching I found a driver and I installed it and so far it seems to be working.
This problem had me riled up quite a lot for ages.
Cheers
Beant

Title: Re:Can't play games because..
Post by: Beany on February 27, 2004, 15:57

Gyaaa it still does it.
Man this is the most annoying problem I've ever had.

Title: Re:Can't play games because..
Post by: ketamininja on February 27, 2004, 16:43

Try going to your MAINBOARD manufacturers website.
Look in the DRIVERS section for your particular mainboard model number.

Download the new audio drivers there. These ones should work perfectly.


However, it is possible that you have a memory issue of some kind. Everytime the audio is making a reference in memory, this is where it is falling over. Now it could be that the drivers are referencing the memory incorrectly (hence new drivers should fix) or it could be that a certain area in memory that is commonly used by those (correct) drivers is bad.


If you can, do a search for DocMemory, a free memory tester.

Title: Re:Can't play games because..
Post by: lobo on February 27, 2004, 23:00

Here

http://www.docmemory.com/ (http://www.docmemory.com/)

Brian :D