Acoustic Edge causing system hangs in W2k?

[ikaika1]

I'm running w2k and ever since I installed my AE yesterday, my system has been hanging intermittently, and I've been getting lots of strange audio related errors when playing MP3's. It seems that I hang most often (but not exclusively) when my monitor goes into standby. I hang reguardless of whether I have sound playing or not, but I never seem to hang if I am "using" my computer, i.e. browsing, playing a game, ect. Ive updated to the latest drivers, and I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced anything like this...

 

[ikaika1]

bump...

 

[Adrian Tung]

I've got blue screens in Win2K Pro, but not with the Acoustic Edge, it's with my SB Live 5.1 and happens after my system wakes from Stand By or even after my monitor goes out of Stand By. I sometimes get blue screens just by plugging and unplugging stuff out of my SB Live card when it is set to Digital Out Only mode.

I'm beginning to think that the card's drivers are crappy, since I had a similar problem with my earlier non-5.1 SB Live, but I've got the limited choice of drivers from Creative. You might want to try a different set of drivers for your card and see if the problem goes away.


atwl

 

[ikaika1]

You know that new drivers sound good but the newest set (2-18-01) are still very buggy. Guess what I hear over in 3dss about the AE in w2k:

(yes this is 3rd or fourth hand, and I dont want to believe it really, but its still interesting to note)
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He (the Philips tech rep) had many interesting things to say. First of all, they never really expected the Acoustic Edge to work in Win2K. They figured it wasn't really necessary, since it was a derivative of NT, and therefore would have lousy multimedia support. Surely most sound cards would have poor Win2K support as well, so the fact that they're drivers crashed constantly wouldn't be an issue.
Of course, that's untrue. When they finally realized that other cards, like the SB Live, work perfectly well under Win2K they were shocked. He really wasn't all that sure they were pursuing it much, though. He said he really didn't think they were even working on new drivers, since the latest ones were fairly new. Although he admitted to not having really knowing that for sure.

Disheartening, no? I'm going to stick it out for a little longer, but if a month goes by without *any* fixes... Well...
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I'm going to have to agree with this guy, its disturbing to say the least. Its just funny because it seems as though most people get their AE working just fine in w2k and its just a handful of unlucky people that get crapped on... like me.