re: xp Sound card problems - Soundblaster Live!
Friday, November 7, 2003 at 2:22 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by benway
(1 messages posted)
This problem below seems to be similar to what I'm experiencing. The sound has cut
out a few times since I got my machine, and I've fixed it in the past by physically
moving the card to new slot, which seems to sort it. The other night I was trying
to install the fated new nVidia gfx drivers, and was given the 'catastrophic error'
that I've heard isn't uncommon. So, I re-installed the old drivers.
ANYWAY, since then, the sound has gone again. I haven't touched the soundcard settings
- they all seem fine - and as far as XP pro is concerned, it's playing like a dream.
No conflicts, no dodgy drivers. I've moved the card, I've re-installed the latest
set of Creative drivers, and nothing.
I'm guessing that this IRQ thing might be the case - I can't see how changing the
video driver would affect the sound card otherwise? So, I was wondering if there
is any kind of solution to this particualr problem. It would be excellent if I could
stop worrying about this thing. Any ideas at all would be good, as I'm close to kicking
my PC out of a window, which would land me in the sh*t with my girl.
On Monday, October 14, 2002 at 5:38 pm, Don wrote:
>Your problem is not uncommon.
>Creative Sound Blaster cards need IRQ 15. there is a problem however in that Windows
>XP & XP Professional has HAL (Hard Ware Adaptive Layer) which takes over the BIOS.
>
>HAL then dynamically assigns IRQ's which cannot be changed or redirected with out
>a third partys HAL.
>
>The upgraded drivers cannot correct this problem. I have had other problems with
>My Audigy Platinum. Creative did not upgrade any thing except some dirvers and
the
>majority of their software was not upgraded to compatiability with XP.
>
>If your surround card supports Dolby 5.1 surround you might try a DVD setup / diagnostic
>/ calabration disk to see if your card actually does decode Dolby.
>
>In my instance I have tried 3 different ones and 3 different DVD software decoders
>that are supposed to decode 5.1. They have all failed or the Blaster card has failed.
>
>They tried to tell me to enable EAX so that I could get surround but this is not
>correct as EAX does not have any thing to do with Dolby.
>
>In Addition the EAX console pops up in Windows XP Professional and takes over the
>screen and there is no minimize or exit buttons. This requires a ctl+alt+del to
>shut it down.
>
>If you have any of these and I have over 3 pages of problems that I have reported,
>then it's probably just Creative not doing you any favors.
>
>Don
>
>
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