Question : Problem: Random freeze problem...

Anytime I play a game or sometimes watch a video my computer will freeze after a random amount of time.  When it freezes it has a loud buzz coming through the speakers. (Not the case speaker, just the ones hooked up to the sound card.)

win2k all updates
2100+, MSI kt266pro2 ru
geforce4 visiontek 4600
512mb pc2100
sblive
2 wd caviar 120gig HD's raid0
seagate cheetah system drive


I upgraded to the bios 3.5 (can only use the newest bios or else it wont boot with a 2100+), reinstalled directx, reinstalled sblive, reinstalled detonator (few differrent versions), took out the sblive completely and used no sound, then used onboard, reinstalled 4 in 1 v4.38, 4.37 and 4.35, put in a different vid card (geforce3), and sacrificed a chicken.

I have a dual boot and the problem occurs in both OS's (win98).  I've changed the via agp to 2x, from 4x and also set the memory timings to a less aggressive setting.  I also swapped out the 512mb DDR stick for another one.

Any other ideas? It just completely freezes whenever i play a game, but it's fairly random. Sometimes i can play for 5 minutes, sometimes only 5 seconds. But it's only when playing a game or watching videos.  Otherwise the system is solid and it acts as my wireless gateway and intranet gateway.  It's also surfed on a lot and used for general MS office stuff.

not overclocked cpu or video card...or unlocked

here's most of my bios settings:
set main vid card to agp
internal cache enabled
bios cached disabled
c000, 32k shadow disabled

mem:
sdram freq= spd
cas=2 (tried 2.5)
row precharge=2
plse width to 5 (tried 6)
ras to cas delay=2t
bank interleave= 2 way (1 stick-o-ram)
burst lenght= 8 (dropped to 4)
sdram 1t command = DISABLED
fast = enabled
agp fast write disabled
aperature to 128
master 1 W/S write enabled
w/s read enabled
write to read disabled
read to write disabled

Answer : Problem: Random freeze problem...

Thanks for your help, Eric.

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