Sound card problem

[Silentsc0rn]

I have a soundbalster Audigy LS and ever since I installed the card and the drivers, when I start winamp 5 it will play a song for a little while then shut down my computer entirely. I use windows XP and have tried the older versions of winamp. It seems to do it more often now than before. Anyone know what the issue here is?

 

[Ionizer86]

Your computer used to be stable, and you've never made any changes to your config other than the card and drivers, right? No overclocking either?

 

[Silentsc0rn]

Yes it was stable and now it isnt. I have tried updating drivers for the card but there isnt any on the web site, so I only have the ones on the cd it came with.

 

[Oyeve]

I had a simular problem but the card I have is the audigy 2 ZS. My system was running fine with the old audigy I had then I got the ZS and installed the drivers and all sorts of funky things started to happen. I didnt notice until i got a pair of 5.1 headphones and noticed that I couldnt change the speaker setings to 5.1 using the SB software. Uninstalled the card software and tried reinstalling it and even weirder things would happen. I would run eax console and a completely diferent program would open. After trying dozens of things I ended up having to do a clean install of the OS because the registry became corrupt. I wish you the best of luck.

 

[Oyeve]

I had a simular problem but the card I have is the audigy 2 ZS. My system was running fine with the old audigy I had then I got the ZS and installed the drivers and all sorts of funky things started to happen. I didnt notice until i got a pair of 5.1 headphones and noticed that I couldnt change the speaker setings to 5.1 using the SB software. Uninstalled the card software and tried reinstalling it and even weirder things would happen. I would run eax console and a completely diferent program would open. After trying dozens of things I ended up having to do a clean install of the OS because the registry became corrupt. I wish you the best of luck.

 

[NokiaDude]

When it comes to upgrades the best solution is to do a clean install of your OS. Totally gets rid of all problems with old drivers laying around.