Audigy Died on Me

[M16Grenadier]

My Audigy LS Soundcard just went.

I bought it in Bestbuy back in January.



Two questions:

What can I do to make sure the card actually did fail (I already tried reinstalling drivers)

What should I replace it with? Im using NForce Audio, and it sucks.

 

[M16Grenadier]

Help! Bump.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

If you just bought it 7 months ago it should still be under warranty, so you can RMA for another.

 

[M16Grenadier]

Can't find the box. Forgot to add that.

 

[Brian48]

Are you sure it's the card? Anyway you can test it in another machine?

 

[M16Grenadier]

What else could it be then? Defective PCI slot?

 

[sandorski]

Are you absolutely sure it died? There have been a handful of times I thought my Audigy died as well, but after re-installing the Drivers it workd again. The Drivers for Audigy cards suck, though when properly installed they work perfectly, they tend to get muddled up by the simplest of things sometimes like a new hardware Install.

 

[M16Grenadier]

All I know is that it stopped working when I plugged my MIC in while running Winamp. Next thing I know, no sound. Tried reinstalling drivers to no avail.

 

[borntodie]

http://us.creative.com//support/warranty/welcome.asp?centric=9231

 

[CSMR]

Great; that's an opportunity to get a decent soundcard. A fine and cheap one is the Chaintech AV710. It even has surround sound for your speakers. Should be a huge upgrade to the audigy.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: M16Grenadier
All I know is that it stopped working when I plugged my MIC in while running Winamp. Next thing I know, no sound. Tried reinstalling drivers to no avail.

Checked your Volume control for Muteing and such?

 

[M16Grenadier]

Winamp will not recognize the sound card, even after driver reinstall.

Edit: I don't have original reciept and the product isn't registered.

I need EAX for games preferably EAX 2.0 or better.

Im looking to spend 30-60 bucks, no more (I got to get more RAM and some AS5 as well, and I am tight on cash).

 

[fireontheway]

have you tried doing a system restore?

 

[M16Grenadier]

Windows 2000 doesn't have system restore.

That, and drivers don't really seem to be an issue, as I reinstalled them already.

 

[Nebor]

The Audigy line of cards is probably the best card for 99% of home users.

The chaintech offers no 3d acceleration.... nothing. It's good for audio purists, looking for good two channel sound, but remember that only 2 channels of that card run through the 'good' DAC.

I would get another Audigy, assuming you can't RMA it. Try calling Creative, they might work with you on it.

 

[M16Grenadier]

How about those Turtle Beach cards and the 7.1 new ones? Around 50 at newegg.

 

[Pariah]

Just call Creative and see if they will replace it. I killed a Sound Blaster Live and a DVD-ROM drive years ago on seperate occasions and got both replaced without a receipt or anything else. All I had to do was ship back the bare product.

 

[M16Grenadier]

Anyway, if that doesn't work out, are they good? (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and the Catalina (7.1)?

 

[CSMR]

As I said, the chaintech AV710 is much better for less.

 

[Brian48]

Originally posted by: CSMR
As I said, the chaintech AV710 is much better for less.

Gimme a break, it is NOT much better. This, and the Gainward Hollywood@Home, is the lowest of the low in regards to Envy24HT-S cards. I tried this cheapass card card before. At best, it is on-par with my Fortissimo in music and absolutely sucks in games.

 

[tinyabs]

Probably the card is not seated properly. My Audigy will not be detected if it is not seat properly in the PCI slot.

Did the computer hang when u insert the MIC?

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: CSMR
As I said, the chaintech AV710 is much better for less.

And as I pointed out, it's only better at one thing, 2 channel music. The audigy annihilates it for everything else.

 

[CSMR]

OK, perhaps. In a multi-speaker setup, it's probably the fronts that are the more important though. The audigy main outputs give a decidedly fuzzy sound compared to good soundcards - I have an Audigy in an old computer here. I don't have a chaintech myself, but the head-fi people all reccomend it as a great cheap soundcard. Of course, maybe the non-main outputs are so much worse than the main ones that the difference is negated for dvds and games.

 

[M16Grenadier]

I'm considering replacing with one of those Catalina cards. Would that be a wise choice?

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Brian48

Originally posted by: CSMR
As I said, the chaintech AV710 is much better for less.

Gimme a break, it is NOT much better. This, and the Gainward Hollywood@Home, is the lowest of the low in regards to Envy24HT-S cards. I tried this cheapass card card before. At best, it is on-par with my Fortissimo in music and absolutely sucks in games.

No crap.

They are used by the headphone crowd because the rear out on them uses the same digital-analog converter that is used on the high end cards.

That's IT. And they used it because it was CHEAPER to do so then to get another AD and use it for that line of cards. They are probably made on or close to the same production line as the nice cards.

The rest of the card uses some crappy low-budget Via multiple channel AD converter, which the same crap you get on lowest of the low budget onboard motherboard sound. (that still supports multiple speakers.)