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Hmmm. Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum refuses to work under XP Pro

Dadofamunky

Dadofamunky

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I am absolutely baffled and hope you guys can help me. Without sound, XP Pro is useless for me. I'm a musician and hope to use XP as a musical platform but so far my SB Audigy 2 Plat is doing squat, after four successive installs on its own SATA hard disk. I have never seen anything like it.

It gets worse.

I would assume the IRQs were wrong but for the fact that the card works flawlessly under Windows 2K.

I bought Creative because I believed they were the most reliable out there based on past experience. Now I'm not so sure. I cannot believe this card can't work on a fresh install of XP Pro. Help! See my sig below for config info.
 
Creative's drivers do suck but I am running them fine under XP Pro ATM. Did you disable on board sound? I remember I could not get them to install if on board sound was on.
 
I installed audigy2 zs had constant rebooting and dcom errors tried webupdate did not help, changed slots did not help.
uninstalled and installed only drivers did not help.
put driver patch from web over drivers only ..did not help.
uninstalled all drivers all creative software and installed web drivers only...card started behaving finally.
gl
 
I am using an ASUS Intel combination without issue, so the product does work, just not for you at the moment. And the drivers have been solid BTW.

How are assigning IRQs? Are you letting hardware do it or the OS (a BIOS setting on most machines.) Is the onboard audio disabled? Have you tried a different PCI slot? What does Device Manager have to say about it?
 
I neved had a problem installing my Audigy 2 platinum on any system and under any OS and I've had to switch a bit since I have it.
 
I had a problem getting my Audigy 2 ZS to work under XP when i did the following install order -->XP-->chipset drivers-->video drivers-->SP2-->Audigy2 drivers. When I made a slipstreamed copy of XPSP2, i did the following order -->XPSP2-->chipset drivers-->video drivers-->Audigy2 drivers. Everything then worked fine. The first time, I tried reinstalling the drivers a bunch of times, but with no luck.
 
Dadofamunky-

I'm a bass player, and do all of my recording and mixing on my PC as well. Besides your current problems (which I can't help you with) you are likely to experience other issues using a Creative card for a musician's purposes.

The best advice I could offer would be to stay away from the Creative products for recording or mixing. Within the same price range you can find a number of pro-quality sound cards. Take a look at EchoAudio (I like the Gina model) or M-Audio for some good gear--those are the two that I have experience with, but there are many others, and I know the market has expanded considerably since I last bought recording gear.

Trust me, from experience, you're going to run into serious latency issues recording through a Creative card. They may be fine with basic household tasks, but start tracking and editing in Sonar and you're going to find you have issues.

Creative is a good (and overpriced) consumer card... but I have found they are far from the best solution for a musician.

Good luck whatever you decide to do!
-Mark
 
I have my Audigy2 Platinum hooked up to my SATA XP Pro set up right now, never had problems with the install.

More information on what the problems are is what is needed:

Have you installed the drivers?
Are you having trouble getting the Live Drive to work?
Are you sure you've plugged into the correct ports on the Sound Card?
 
Thanks for the insight! Frankly, that stuff is kinda hard to find.... I'll scope that out directly. I do hear that XP is an excellent sound platform.... certainly not with THIS card....

Originally posted by: markj
Dadofamunky-

I'm a bass player, and do all of my recording and mixing on my PC as well. Besides your current problems (which I can't help you with) you are likely to experience other issues using a Creative card for a musician's purposes.

The best advice I could offer would be to stay away from the Creative products for recording or mixing. Within the same price range you can find a number of pro-quality sound cards. Take a look at EchoAudio (I like the Gina model) or M-Audio for some good gear--those are the two that I have experience with, but there are many others, and I know the market has expanded considerably since I last bought recording gear.

Trust me, from experience, you're going to run into serious latency issues recording through a Creative card. They may be fine with basic household tasks, but start tracking and editing in Sonar and you're going to find you have issues.

Creative is a good (and overpriced) consumer card... but I have found they are far from the best solution for a musician.

Good luck whatever you decide to do!
-Mark
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Originally posted by: BouZouki
Creative's drivers do suck but I am running them fine under XP Pro ATM. Did you disable on board sound? I remember I could not get them to install if on board sound was on.
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You know, I believe I have done so as it is working fine on Win2K, BUT I will need to double-check that....
 
A) Yes - no go. But I am going to double-check the on-board audio. Heck, maybe I'll just settle for that for now.... and take this POS back....
B) Yes, that is correct. Thing is dead as a doornail. I assume that's the 5 1/4" attachment.
C) Yes, as it is working fine under 2K.... 🙂

thanks for the questions....

Originally posted by: airfoil
I have my Audigy2 Platinum hooked up to my SATA XP Pro set up right now, never had problems with the install.

More information on what the problems are is what is needed:

Have you installed the drivers?
Are you having trouble getting the Live Drive to work?
Are you sure you've plugged into the correct ports on the Sound Card?
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Err, the E-Mu programmable DSP was designed for professional applications. They just decided to bring it to mass-market it with the Live!, and after bumping up the MIPS, the Audigy series. The ASIO driver is exactly for low-latency processing. I don't do "pro" recording but I am just saying don't write it off.

You say it is not working but are not specific. For all I can guess you have the mixer muted or digital output only on while trying to use analog. There's a disturbing number of n00bs (worse, 1337 n00bs) who fail to install the basic software because "it's just unnecessary bloat" but queerly do not have the same prejudice against graphics control panels. What I'm getting at is make sure you have installed the minimum schtuff required from the CD to configure the bloody thing (Mixer, Speaker Settings, EAX Console, AudioHQ, ... gee, Diagnostics might be helpful, plus anything else you need). Then update with the appropriate downloads (careful) and configure AudioHQ & Surround Mixer etc. accordingly.

I agree you would expect it to work the same under Windows 5.0 and 5.1, but they do have enough differences to cause problems. Go into the CMOS setup and make sure on-board audio is disabled (this should be a given) and that the Audigy does not share resources -don't bother trying to assign them, just move it to a PCI slot that does not share resources. If you cannot figger it out then consult the mainboard manual or tech support.

Confirm all is okay in Device Manager. You may also want to try increasing the MCI buffer from Sounds & Audio, Hardware, Media Control Devices. Also, it may be helpful to disable (via msconfig) or remove (manually or with some utility software) unneeded startup items, particularly cthelper (especially if not using WinDVD).

Good luck.
 
Originally posted by: markj
Dadofamunky-

I'm a bass player, and do all of my recording and mixing on my PC as well. Besides your current problems (which I can't help you with) you are likely to experience other issues using a Creative card for a musician's purposes.

The best advice I could offer would be to stay away from the Creative products for recording or mixing. Within the same price range you can find a number of pro-quality sound cards. Take a look at EchoAudio (I like the Gina model) or M-Audio for some good gear--those are the two that I have experience with, but there are many others, and I know the market has expanded considerably since I last bought recording gear.

Trust me, from experience, you're going to run into serious latency issues recording through a Creative card. They may be fine with basic household tasks, but start tracking and editing in Sonar and you're going to find you have issues.

Creative is a good (and overpriced) consumer card... but I have found they are far from the best solution for a musician.

Good luck whatever you decide to do!
-Mark
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markj knows I know and now you know, so take it back and go buy a real sound card for probably a $100 more and be real glad you did! Drivers are the worst I have ever experienced from creative. Every product they sell must have a dozen patches to fix this and that and that and this I am sure you get my meaning.

Get a terratec but not an E-mu they are also creative works. Many more available on the web so go surfing........

Good Luck!

 
Yeah I've had problems with this card as well. Everything works fine except for DVD-Audio. I've had lots of headaches trying to figure this out (unsuccefully) over the course of a few months. I finally just gave up and am buying a DVD-Audio set top player.

Anyway as has been said before, Creative makes good hardware, but their drivers and software are terrible.
 
Disagree, the Audigy 2 drivers are good. I use Sound Force 7 and Liquid Edition 6 (which uses ASIO In/Out) with zero issues while stressed.
 
Originally posted by: gsellis
Disagree, the Audigy 2 drivers are good. I use Sound Force 7 and Liquid Edition 6 (which uses ASIO In/Out) with zero issues while stressed.
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Today they are working fine but just that one time you have to reboot or uninstall and install again for whatever the reason, static fuzzy audio just dont work for me!
 
Just out of curiosity, do you have a lot of USB devices hooked up (ie. printers, scanners, etc..)? I had a similiar problem with my A2 when installing in one particular box that had like a zillion different things installed on it. The card would install fine on all my other machines. Solved the problem by installing the A2 first and then all the other devices.
 
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