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Sound Blaster Audigy troubles...

Avalon

Avalon

Diamond Member
I recently got a leftover Audigy (not used) from a friend of mine, and just slapped it into my system a few days ago. Paid $30 for it. Nothing comes with it, I just had the card in a static bag. Well, so I go to download the drivers off the web, and there are like 4-5 different versions of Audigy drivers. My card just says "Audigy" on it, and nothing else. No ES, no Gamer, no any other of those. My friend told me to just pick the gamer drivers, so I did. Got my sound up and working, but now my speakers emit this almost screeching beep every 5-10 minutes. It's driving me crazy. Did I install the wrong drivers or did my friend give me a shafted card?
Any input would be appreciated :\

*Edit*
I did disable my onboard sound prior to installing the card. That shouldn't be the problem. I've actually more or less pinpointed the problem, in a limited scope. It will screech/beep at me a lot especially when I'm using AIM and talking to someone. To test this, I opened up a window and IMed myself repeatedly, and got lots of screeching beeping noises coming back. Anyone know what's going on here? 🙁
 
I have had problems with Audigy also I love the sound that they produce just hate getting them set up. First of all the Audigy does not like Via chipset mobos that much so make sure that you update you chipset drivers for your mobo. As far as what drivers you need all that matters is if you have an audigy or an audigy2. I believe that the EX, LS, Gammer, Platium, MP3 etc are just what comes bundled with the card its the same exact hardware. An Audgy is an Audigy, and Audigy2 is and Audigy2.

The best way that I get my Audigy working is to use the drivers that came with the card on the CD for the intial install and then update drivers from the Creatvie labs site using the autoupdate feature http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/su.asp Or if you have the drivers loaded I would just try the auto update feature, this seems to work much better than downloading the drivers.

The key I have found is using the CD for the intial install of the drivers. I would ask you buddy if he has the CD or search the web for and ISO of it.

And once you get it working I advise you to NOT UPDATE THE DRIVERS just leave it alone. If its not broke why fix it 😉
 
I have had problems with Audigy also I love the sound that they produce just hate getting them set up. First of all the Audigy does not like Via chipset mobos that much so make sure that you update you chipset drivers for your mobo.
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My ex-Audigy worked great in my old VIA KT266A board,the main thing to remember is the soundcard does not like to share IRQs with other hardware so moving the card to a different PCI slot can solve problems for some people,as to your problem it sounds like you`ve a OEM Audigy without the CD install disk,so if you know somebody that has an Audigy CD you could borrow or burn a copy for yourself,you would then run the Audigy installation setup from the CD then get any driver/software updates after for your Audigy card.

Btw updating the Audigy drivers was not a problem for me,anyway I`m using nForce sound now and I`m very happy with the sound quality.
 
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