Audigy Player/Gamer problems

[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?

 

[Funyuns101]

Hey MadTom
I had a similar problem with Creative's Audigy1 (retail). But yeah, I finally got annoyed enough to call Creative and ask for an RMA. They sent me a new card instead of fixing my old one. It took a little while, but was well worth the effort because of the annoyance that card caused.
Sorry that I don't have any real solutions, but it's just first hand experience, but my new card works fine. Good luck~