I have a weird problem I am unable to fix. I had a system that was running stable before I upgraded to a Soundblaster Xfi card.

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G, Athlon 64 X2 3800 AM2, 1 GB PC 3200, XFX Geforce 7600GT, 80 GB system drive Barracuda 7200, Sata Raid 2x 300 GB Maxtor DiamondMax10, PSU Seasonic 600W, Ralink Wireless PCI card, Sony floppy, Pioneer DVR 111

After the installation of the new soundcard I could reboot initially but not reboot when I used the PC a few hours/next day later. The blue XP indicator bar would freeze. Tried several re-installs. Then I re-installed everything including XP from the beginning. When re-installing the graphics card driver (old and latest version) system would hang with a blinking cursor.

I also updated BIOS - first flash failed I had to shorten the CMOS contacts as the system would not restart at all. This revived the system. Flashed BIOS successfully from DOS floppy. Full re-installation -everything seemed to work. Re-booted several times- OK. Booted a few hours later- XP freezes when blue indicator bar has ben running for a few seconds.

I have now the latest drivers for both soundcard, graphics card, BIOS and latest DirectX installed. I cannot understand why the system would reboot immediately after installation but freeze a few hours later.
Just to inform you that disabling or uninstalling either soundcard or graphics card will avoid the problem with freezing. So there must be a driver/hardware conflict. The only thing I do not understand is why this only becomes a problem after the machine was switched off for some time before re-booting. Can anyone please shed some light on this. Any idea what else I could try to fix the problem ?

Excuse but there is only one thread in English in this forum: http://forums.overclockers.ru/viewtopic ... 47#2726947
It's better to set this question for example here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/

the reason I posted here that I saw a lot of members using GA-M55plus-S3G

I already posted on xtremesystems.org but noone there is using GA-M55plus-S3G

I hope you understood me
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No one is using GA-M55plus-S3G with GEforce 7 series and X-Fi XM ?

I already saw a lot of users using GA-M55plus-S3G: http://forums.overclockers.ru/viewtopic ... d311465998

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Where are GA-M55plus-S3G OWNERS ?