Control Panel, hardware acceleration error message, Audigy2

[Park]

I've seen a few posts regarding this error message:

To enable the advanced sound effect for gaming, please
make sure the setting of the Hardware Acceleration
is "full". the directory is as below:
Control Panel -> Multimedia/(Win98)/Sound &
Multimedia/Win200,Me)/Sounds & Audio Device(WinXP) ->Audio
->Playback/Advanced ->Performance ->Harware Acceleration.

I saw no solutions posted, but I recently solved the issue on one of
the systems I was building. The perhaps relevant parts of the system
consisted of:
Intel 3.0GHz P4
Abit IS7-E mainboard
1GB Corsair RAM "PC3200"
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
SB Audigy2 Platinum

When the Audigy2 drivers were removed, the error message left as well.
I ran msinfo32 and discovered that the onboard sound was using the
same IRQ as the Audigy2. I had intended to use the onboard sound for
a separate purpose, but just for kicks, I disabled it via the device
manager.

The error messages then ceased.

I hope this will be of some value to others experiencing this problem.

 

[Kelly]

Thanks for the feedback/update. This will help many.

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