Realtek AC97 BSOD

[CVissie]

Hi,

I've had quite a few BSOD's the past week, at the moment all the BSOD's minidumps points to ALCXWDM.SYS which is the sound driver for Realtek AC97 codec. All the games I've tried seems to give me BSOD when I enable EAX. Is anybody else having the same troubles?

I've (almost) ruled out that it could be faulty memory or pagefile problems.

I'm thinking that it could be power-related problem, but I'm doubtful

This is my system specifications:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Processor 640, 3.20GHz, 800Mhz FSB, 775Socket, 2MB L2 Cache, Boxed

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royale nForce4 Intel Edition

Graphics card: Gainward NVidia GeForce 7600GT

Sound card: On-board Realtek AC97

RAM: 2x Kingston 512MB at 667Mhz

Hard drive: Seagate 160GB SATA

DVD Drive: LG

Power Supply: Can't remember what brand, 400W nonetheless

Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2, nLite:very little tweaks and no important components removed, RyanVM UpdatePack 2.05

Driver Versions: Latest graphics, chipset etc. DOWNGRADED to audio driver version 5.10.0.5940 after having the problems. I don't know if the newer drivers was the cause for the BSOD's.

[jago_lfn]

Dont enable eax or buy a cheap audigy if you need to have eax. I've never had much luck with onboard sound and hw acceleration, uses too much cpu and causes games to run slower.

[nitroshift]

All the games I've tried seems to give me BSOD when I enable EAX.

Do you have speaker setup for eax? (5.1 or 7.1 array). If you do then it`s worth looking further into it, if you don't, then don't bother.