Problems With New PC

[Cow Fly]

I have recently been having many problems with my computer I built last week. I think they are they result of installing the audigy 2 zs. My computer has been randomly freezing, sound occasionally works, I have to install Creative's drivers everytime I boot the pc and it randomly restarts only allowing my to boot into safe mode. Should I just remove the sound card, which I don't think I can return be case I cut the UPC off for a rebate, and use onboard sound or is there something else I can do?

Here are some of the errors I am getting

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329284

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/re...44d85c39fd3&SID=10

 

[mechBgon]

Yeah, try with the Audigy2 removed. It shouldn't take long to know whether it was the root of the problems. If I were using an Audigy2 in that board I would be sure to disable the motherboard's onboard MIDI, Gameport, Firewire and audio since the A2 duplicates all four of those functions and might make Windows 😕.

 

[Cow Fly]

The sound card appears to be the source of the problem since without it everything works fine. I'll try disabling all of the onboard stuff.

 

[mechBgon]

Also, looking at page 2-15 of the manual, it looks like PCI slot #1 has to do a heck of a lot of sharing of its chipset IRQs. You might want to try the A2 in PCI slot #3, if you didn't try that yet.

 

[Cow Fly]

I removed the drivers and moved the sound card from slot #1 to #2 and now when I use the add new hardware window, that appears after a boot up the computer, to install the drivers there is an error and they will not install. When I use the the setup on the cd that came with the sound card I install the drivers and restart the computer but in the sounds and audio devices properties it says that there is no audio device.

 

[mechBgon]

😕

How about PCI slot #3?

 

[Cow Fly]

The drivers finally installed and now everything appears to be ok.