Audigy 2 install - "windows has recovered from a serious error"

[nikko]

That's the message I've been getting after most (but not all) reboots since I installed my new Audigy 2 Platinum. For what it's worth, at the same time that I did that install, I reconfigured my IDE drives. I had 2 hard drives on one IDE cable and 2 optical drives on another. I had read that it's better performance-wise to have your hard drives on different IDE cables, so I figured since I had to move my drives around to make room for the Audigy 2 drive anyway, I'd go ahead and fix that too. My OS drive and CD-RW were already both masters and I left them that way. I just swapped the DVD-ROM and the 2nd hard drive. Anyway, when I first rebooted, XP recognized the DVD-ROM, CD-RW and soundcard as new hardware and prompted me to install drivers, etc. I only did so for the sound card since it was the only truly new component. Any ideas on what's going on? My system seems to function fine, but getting that error message is unnerving. Below are the details of the error message. I'd appreciate any tips on how to fix this. Thanks.


<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=1>
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BF802478 BCP3 : F25488D0
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1 </FONT></FONT></DIV>

 

[zephyrprime]

Windows is telling you that spending so much on a sound card is a serious financial error and you should get your money back! Hyuck hyuck!

But seriously, check out your system event logs. They will definitely have something to say.

 

[TechBoyJK]

now that you know how you want everything setup, backup, format, reinstall. I would put the audigy card in a different PCI slot before you reinstall.

 

[Viper96720]

Actually you can have a hard drive and optical drive on the same channel nowadays. Seen somewhere they tested transfer rates while playing a cd. The scores were the same or
close either way. It probably might have been true a few years ago.

Since you moved drives windows sees them as new hardware since there on a different channel as before. Try going to device manager uninstall the ide controllers and restart
and let windows reinstall them.