Audigy Player/Gamer problem

[MadTom]

Hi,

few days ago I bought an Audigy Player (bulk version) but it somehow just doesn't wanna work as specified. After palying a game for a minute, or listening to music (even the own Creative EAX demo) the computer locks up with a stupid continous looping sound.

I tried to change the following - drivers, move card from one PCI slot to another, check drivers for the mobos integrsted soundcard and clean everything out from the registry - but neither of that helped (of course I turned off the integrated sound card in the BIOS). At the moment I'm back to the integrated soundcard and everything works fine.

My setup is:
Gigabyte 8IGX mobo (845G chipset) (F5 BIOS)
P4 1.6A @ 2.13 GHz (FSB 133, PCI is 33 MHz, AGP is 66 MHz) - no problems from here
512 MB PC2700 DDR RAM at 354 MHz - no problems from here either
GeForce 3 Ti200 iwth 40.72 Detonators
Win2K professional with SP3
Hauppauge WinTV in PCI slot 3
Audigy was in slot 5 and slot 2
other PCI slots are empty

Has anyone have had a similar problem and managed to slove it. I guess it could be a crappy card; or maybe I would have to play with the PCI latency timings in the BIOS.

Any ideas?

 

[MrColin]

Some of the problems I've had w/ my SB 2 card sound similar. The lockup, sound looping business I had was actually resolved after installing new software for my MS Multimedia keyboard. I guess the keyboard was limping along in plug and play mode until then and when I hit the volume keys it would lock up the system, but only when I was playing audio or video. The other problem was that the sound was choppy during game cinematics. Updating the drivers made it worse and caused additional problems. Once I got the origional drivers back I learned that the game caused the problem (Red Alert 2) and the remedy was to throttle down the audio acceleration in device manager. It's sounded pretty good ever since.

I think that audio cards are very fussy about how you install them and what you might want to do is uninstall all of your other PCI cards, install your sound card and drivers, then reinstall your other PCI cards. I've read in a couple of places that if you don't install the sound card first you will almost certainly have problems.

Hope this helps.

 

[MadTom]

Well, the card works fine under Win98, but under Win2K there are a lot of problems. For now I'm sticking to the onboard ALC650 codec...

Probably will go to sell the card.

Thanks anyway.