DxDiag freezes PC .

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I got an old PC from my wife's business, but the sound did not

work. It just ticked about once per second. She said the

sound worked fine when she had it. Then I recalled

the only thing that I changed was the modem. I removed this

modem (a Lucent winmodem) and hear music again.

Now I had tried dxdiag before and answered 'no' to the

questions did you hear a sound? out of curiosity I ran

dxdiag again. Now it won't start up. I get a message

 

DxDiag has detected that there may have been a problem

accessing DirectSound the last time this program was used.

 

And the PC seizes up: hard disk light goes out, mouse will

not move, even ctrl-alt-del has no effect.

 

It is Windows 2000 SP4

dxdiag is 5.01.2600.0881

the sound card is a generic SB16 type.