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Holy crap. After installing my new Audigy 4, F.e.a.r quicky Bluescreened..

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DARQ MX

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The blue screen came up so fast no one could read it, it happend about 15mins of playing in F.e.a.r and I think it is the card. The card has been pretty good so far I uninstalled my old drivers and disabled my AC97 in the bios and the card is not sharing any IRQ's with any other components.

What is going on? I know it can't be a hardware probelm cause this never happened before the card was put in and I test this system a lot under all the program we all use. (prime, memtest etc...)


please help, my system is no problem matic with hardware.
 
Disable the auto-reboot on BSOD (think it's under Control Panels/System somewhere) and see what it says. You might try reinstalling FEAR, if you had previously installed it without the Audigy and it's the only app giving you problems.
 
yeah System Properties (Windows key + Pause)...Advanced...Startup and Recovery

you can also debug the minidump from the crash and single out the faulting driver (probably 'creative' something 😀).
 
yep, I know that setting, I do it on other customer pc's when I am working on them, but I wanted to slove the problem before I reverted to that step...
 
Yep, I did have FEAR installed before the A4...

Also, most likey the Bsod will not tell more much more than numbers like 000000000000000000011111 etc...
 
Originally posted by: DARQ MX
Yep, I did have FEAR installed before the A4...

Also, most likey the Bsod will not tell more much more than numbers like 000000000000000000011111 etc...
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You can usually eke out a driver name in %SYSTEMROOT%\Minidump\ (if you have mini-dump enabled during BSOD)
 
You don't really need to d/l the debugging tools. AnalogX Textscan is a handy tool to have. Then just put the minidump in TextScan and find a *.dll, *.sys, *.ax, etc.. filename.
 
The point of having the Audigy 4? It can still reproduce really good sound. EAX is just a set of effects. I didn't say disable it forever. Just disable it and see if it runs without BSOD and if so then we limited the problem to the sound driver. That was my problem with Quake 4/Audigy 2 ZS.

Edit: Actually it was OpenAL, not EAX.
 
Originally posted by: xtknight
You don't really need to d/l the debugging tools. AnalogX Textscan is a handy tool to have. Then just put the minidump in TextScan and find a *.dll, *.sys, *.ax, etc.. filename.
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Hadn't heard of that one, but I just tried it and it shows all of my driver files. How do you tell which was the faulting one?
 
Originally posted by: professor1942
Originally posted by: xtknight
You don't really need to d/l the debugging tools. AnalogX Textscan is a handy tool to have. Then just put the minidump in TextScan and find a *.dll, *.sys, *.ax, etc.. filename.
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Hadn't heard of that one, but I just tried it and it shows all of my driver files. How do you tell which was the faulting one?
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I actually just use Notepad and usually the bad one has a STOP: next to it.
 
Ok, I downloaded and installed the newest drivers and I will be testing it soon, However, I could not find auto-reboot on BSOD on my board. Maybe you guys could tell me what it is named under in these epox mobos.
 
Originally posted by: professor1942
yeah System Properties (Windows key + Pause)...Advanced...Startup and Recovery

you can also debug the minidump from the crash and single out the faulting driver (probably 'creative' something 😀).
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Follow these instuctions, it is not a setting in the bios.
 
Originally posted by: DARQ MX
yep, I know that setting, I do it on other customer pc's when I am working on them, but I wanted to slove the problem before I reverted to that step...
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Solve the problem before doing that? 😕

That will hopefully tell you what the problem is so you can solve it.
 
Originally posted by: DARQ MX
Ok, I downloaded and installed the newest drivers and I will be testing it soon, However, I could not find auto-reboot on BSOD on my board. Maybe you guys could tell me what it is named under in these epox mobos.
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And you say you work on 'customer's PCs'? 😕
 
Why would you say that? Just cause i could not find it on my mobo... Does not mean I don't know what I am doing... Trust me I know what I am doing.
 
Well so far everything is working good, I played the game at the same area today and for a while and no Bsods. So I am hoping it was just the drivers.
 
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