Re: [Thinkpad] [OT] 3D Sound in XP

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From: Justin466AMD_at_aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 12:01:18 EST


In a message dated 11/16/2002 9:54:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
stevec50_at_yahoo.com writes:

> Via chips with sound will make XP and Win2000 crash a
> lot. Do you have frequent crashes? You can try turning
> off the sound in the BIOS and using a Soundblaster or
> Turtle Beach card to get good sound but it may still
> crash unless you change the motherboard and get rid of
> the Via chipset.

It doesn't crash at all, I have the latest 4 in 1 for it and only the
southbridge is VIA, the north is AMD. I will probably end up getting a better
one but I wanted to know if there is a registry key in XP that I could change
to keep it from automatically turning this thing on. Because it really gets
annoying.


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