Sound Blaster 2 ZS dead after reboot

[Jeff D]

Did a clean install on a Gateway 3200XL, loaded all the updates and drivers.
Sound card works normally until I reboot, then no sound but the card is
still in device manager and displayed as working properly. I made sure the
motherboard sound chip was disabled in the bios, moved the Audigy sound card
to a different slot, made sure I had the latest driver, made sure mute is
not checked, that SoundBlaster is the default and that I had the "use only
default device" box checked in the audio tab and still no sound after a
reboot. If I uninstall the driver and then reinstall I get sound as long as
I don't reboot. During the reboot the sound chimes until I log in then the
sound is gone. I've also made sure I have all the drivers loaded for the
motherboard. I'm not sure what to try next, any help??

 

[njem]

Well this is not much of an answer but it may be better than nothing.
I had the same problem with an old laptop. It wasn't worth putting
time into so I didn't. I had reloaded everything because of a crash,
so it wasn't windows being corrupted. I discovered that the sound
install file could be run from a batch with a /quiet switch so it just
ran in the background with no need for intervention. I put that in the
startup. Made the system busy for the first couple of minutes, but
then it worked. I didn't turn it off much, just put it into hibernate.

 

[Daniel B. Wright]

Jeff> njem thanks for the reply, I went to sound card web site and
Jeff> after a few driver tries found one that works.

I have the exact same problem. What is the driver that worked for you?