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KT7A (686B) Problems With Santa Cruz

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epiGamer

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A little over 8 months ago, I spent a fortune on upgrading my system, but to my dispair I found that my new ABIT KT7A montherboard and my new Soundblaster 5.1 Player caused the system to hang. At last I have saved up for the only sound card that is supposed not to have any problems with the 686B southbridge chipset and guess what? Yup, after trying it out, with a completely fresh installation of Windows, my system hang.

As you can guess this is a bit of a problem. I have the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers and the lastest Santa Crus drivers (I'm in the UK and the card is called a Sonic Fury here, but they are the same thing) followed third-party instructions from VIAHARDWARE.com (such as setting IRQ-5 to ISA Legacy) and still have problems.

If anyone can offer advice then I'd much appreciate it. The problems must be related to sound in some way as I have now removed the card and the system is completely stable (as it was when I removed the Player, and a Vortex 2 I also tried in it).

My complete system as it stands is:

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz 266FSB
ABIT KT7A Motherboard
2x 256Mb PC133 CAS2 Crucial DIMM (512Mb Total)
Videologic SonicFury (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz)
nVidia TNT
PCTel V.90 K56Flex HSP PCI Modem
Maxtor D740 40Gb 7200RPM ATA133 Hard Drive (IDE 1: Master)
Fujitsu 6.4Gb Drive (IDE 2: Slave)
Matshita DVD Drive (IDE 2: Master)

Again, if anyone can help, please post a reply. I'm desperate now!
 
What O/S are you using, I have had some problems in XP with this card. There are some beta drivers on the TurtleBeach web site, I would give those a try as they are more up to date than the drivers on Videologics site.
 
I'm having the same problems. I'm getting the BSOD. Though I have the KR7A-Raid and I'm on Windows 2000.
 
My Bro has the same setup using a SB live, The fix is in upgrading your Bios. Here is the link you need to read up on all the stuff..FAQ

 
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