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sound cards don't work under WinXP... (IRQ problem?)

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Lifer
my friend had an Aureal SQ1500 sound card and it worked flawlessly under his WinXP system (Voodoo3 3500, Athlon 750, Lan card, IDE card PCI). After one of his hard drive died, things have become weird. His sound card ceased to function, BSOD pops up everytime after booting up. The problem did not solve after I suggested him to install a Creative Sound card instead. However, the sound cards would work only if one of the OTHER PCI cards are removed. So I am guessing there's something wrong with the IRQ assignments. (which I don't know how to fix).

once again, his computer worked fine before even with all those PCI peripherals jam-packed into his motherboard. All hell broke loose after a hard drive died.
 
It sounds like he did not properly install winxp onto his computer. Did he install the chipset drivers properly?
 
chipset drivers for the Sound card? or WinXP's drivers? Doesn't WinXP automatically detect and install?


the Aureal card worked fine before, AFTER the first install of WinXP, so i suppose it won't be an installation/driver issue.
 
Ok, so, you did not install any chipset drivers. Windows does not automatically do everything. If it does, it uses very old drivers. You need to get the latest chipset drivers and sound card drivers. Also, how did you get windows onto the new hard drive? There is really no way to solve "IRQ problems", you can try moving cards to different slots, maybe getting rid of the IDE PCI controller if you don't really need it.
 
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