Aureal A3D Vortex 2 Drivers NOT WORKING!!!

[Gdawg2000]

I just installed an Aureal A3D Vortex 2 2500 i just installed into my pc. I dl the drivers, unzipped them into a folder for the hardware detector to find. Now...i browsed to that folder when it asked me to specifiy drivers, and select the aureal3d driver, and everything went well. But then after it installed, it started to install a Soundblaster Pro Emulator software, and it just froze, everything. So i rebooted, and it detected a unknown device again, and wanted a driver to continue installing the Soundblaster Emulator, so i browsed the folders, and found the driver that was unzipped with the driver file. So i choosed that one and hit "OK". And then it froze AGAIN at the same point. I have no idea why it keeps freezing!!! But..i do have a compaq which has an embedded ESS Audio Card. Is that second card causing a problem? why does it keep freezing up and not continuing?????

 

[Redwingsguy]

greg I'm thinking about the lines of...CRAPMAQ!! why does my neighbor do this to me............ grrrrrrrrr............ have you lookin in disableing it in bios?

 

[Gdawg2000]

but seriously...does anyone have any clue as to how to stop it from freezing up?

 

[Supradude]

try manually setting the irq for your sound card in bios, set irq 5 to legacy ISA or reserved and boot up, also make sure to disable onoard sound from the bios if thats an option,... i have a Xitel Storm paltinum on the aureal 2 chipset and i always set the irq 5 in this way so the SB emulation installs corrctly, before doing this, it used to install but show up as "disabled in hardware profile" in system settings

 

[oldfart]

Try here.

 

[sandorski]

Yup, go to the link that Oldfart gave. Then in a trouble shooting section they give instructions on how to disable the DOS installation.

 

[The Rock]

I agree with all the above just go down to the exact same question and follow those instructions. I did this to my set up and have not had a problem since! All it basically does is free up resources(read DOS drivers,SB emulation) and now your motherboard will be able to put everything "in a nice place". Good Luck!