Hi guys,
Was wondering if you guys could help me out here. Here are my rig details:
AMD Athlon64 3500+
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
Creative Labs X-Fi Platinum
I had installed the X-Fi before and everything was fine. I was using a set of headphones connected to the front replicator port, and all worked well for many, many weeks now.
Recently, I bought a set of Creative Megaworks 5100 7.1 speakers (tested before purchase), and hooked them up to the card. Lo and behold, no sound. Pulled my headphones out of the front replicator. Still no sound. Made sure the Creative Media Controls were set to "7.1 Speakers" and not "Headphones". Still no sound. (Yes, the speakers are switched on).
So I decided to reboot. Exactly as the Windows boot stage gets to the point where it would load up the soundcard drivers, it BSODs really quickly, and reboots. Disconnected the speakers, then tried again, same result. Tried this 3 times. So I go into Safe mode, which works fine. Uninstall the Creative drivers, clean them out of my System32 and System32/Data folders too. Reboot, no BSODs, just windows complaining about a new device.
Download the latest drivers from Creative, and exactly as it's installing the Creative X-Fi WDM drivers, it BSODs again and reboots.
Went through the clean-up again, and went into the BIOS, switched on my on-board REALTEK and then hooked up my speakers to the on-bord ports. Works fine.
Any idea what else i can do before I go through the whole BSOD process again??
Regards,
Mike
Was wondering if you guys could help me out here. Here are my rig details:
AMD Athlon64 3500+
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
Creative Labs X-Fi Platinum
I had installed the X-Fi before and everything was fine. I was using a set of headphones connected to the front replicator port, and all worked well for many, many weeks now.
Recently, I bought a set of Creative Megaworks 5100 7.1 speakers (tested before purchase), and hooked them up to the card. Lo and behold, no sound. Pulled my headphones out of the front replicator. Still no sound. Made sure the Creative Media Controls were set to "7.1 Speakers" and not "Headphones". Still no sound. (Yes, the speakers are switched on).
So I decided to reboot. Exactly as the Windows boot stage gets to the point where it would load up the soundcard drivers, it BSODs really quickly, and reboots. Disconnected the speakers, then tried again, same result. Tried this 3 times. So I go into Safe mode, which works fine. Uninstall the Creative drivers, clean them out of my System32 and System32/Data folders too. Reboot, no BSODs, just windows complaining about a new device.
Download the latest drivers from Creative, and exactly as it's installing the Creative X-Fi WDM drivers, it BSODs again and reboots.
Went through the clean-up again, and went into the BIOS, switched on my on-board REALTEK and then hooked up my speakers to the on-bord ports. Works fine.
Any idea what else i can do before I go through the whole BSOD process again??
Regards,
Mike
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