Audigy 2 ZS

[Tim Wendland]

I installed new card (audigy 2 zs) now xp wont boot past,
Windows is starting up... I have installed the card
twice. Creative auto-update says I have the newest
drivers. Any suggestions? Oh, I can do safe mode but it
takes at least 30 min. to boot at that.

 

[@drian]

I installed new card (audigy 2 zs) now xp wont boot past,
Windows is starting up... I have installed the card
twice. Creative auto-update says I have the newest
drivers. Any suggestions? Oh, I can do safe mode but it
takes at least 30 min. to boot at that.

What about installing it in a different PCI slot?

@drian.

 

[Tim Wendland]

-----Original Message-----


What about installing it in a different PCI slot?

@drian.


.Yes I have tried that as well.

 

[stuart]

How big is your power supply? what speed is the processor?
how much ram do you have? so many questions not alot of
anwsers

 

[Tim Wendland]

-----Original Message-----
How big is your power supply? what speed is the processor?
how much ram do you have? so many questions not alot of
anwsers

5200. Speakers are BA 7500G. 19 gig free space on hd.
Previously had SB LIVE!

 

[@drian]

Well I can tell you, installing Creative drivers won't make any difference
if Windows barely boots. So does your PC work fine without that card
installed? I'm thinking maybe you have on-board audio and your Audigy 2 is
clashing with that.

@drian.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


Well I can tell you, installing Creative drivers won't make any difference
if Windows barely boots. So does your PC work fine without that card
installed? I'm thinking maybe you have on-board audio and your Audigy 2 is
clashing with that.

@drian.

I have suspected that as well, but I can't figure out

how to disable it, it's not an option in the bios\boot
menu.

 

[steve]

move the audigy to pci slot #5, the bottom one. you are
having conflict problems with either other pci cards, the
agp card, or onboard devices.

if you have it in slot 4, the one that NORMALLY shares
with the agp slot, you will have all kinds of trouble.

 

[steve]

are you SURE? that is VERY RARE for there not to be an
option. it would be in "integrated peripherals".
Hopefully you don't have a
Gateway/compaq/HP/emachine...those would be the only
boards i can think of where this would be left out.

the audigy is clashing with something...and since you have
not disabled the onboard sound, that's it.

if there really is not an option to disable...remove the
audigy, boot to windows, open the device manager, and
disable the onboard audio, then try again.

 

[Tim Wendland]

-----Original Message-----
move the audigy to pci slot #5, the bottom one. you are
having conflict problems with either other pci cards, the
agp card, or onboard devices.

if you have it in slot 4, the one that NORMALLY shares
with the agp slot, you will have all kinds of trouble.
.
Thanks, Steve. After the third try in different slots I

had considered re-trying a moot point. Your advice was
right on. Once again, thanks.