Sound Driver Keeps Uninstalling

[Iceman3553]

One day I started my computer up (see my build below) and I had no sound. I went in to dev manager and there was an exclamation point next to my SB X-FI driver. I uninstalled the driver then rebooted. When it restarted the sound was back. The comp would be fine for a boot or two. Then when I try to boot it on the third day (or it may even act up if I boot it again the same day after installing the drivers) it would corrupt the driver again. Most times my computer won't even boot do the the problem or get to the windows screen w/ the scrolling bar and restart itself due to the fatal error from the driver being corrupted OR the windows screen with the scrolling bar will fade in very slowly/ almost jerk in. Then when it finally fades in, the loading/scrolling bar will go across the screen fine once or twice, then it will just stop, then jerk, stop, then jerk again. This will go on for a few minutes forcing me to restart the computer. It is a very disturbing problem that makes me sweat and worry if my comp will boot the day I need it. Some times I will go on my other machine that is slow as hell compared to this one just to avoid the hassle of starting it. I would appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Mike


MY RIG
MOBO:ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium (COOLER MASTER LIQUID COOLING KIT)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 (2.4 GHz I think?)
HD: MAXTOR 320GB SATA 7200 RPM
VID CARDS: 2x NVIDIA 7950 GT 512 MB PCI-E
SOUND CARD:CREATIVE X-FI XTREMEMUSIC
POWER SUPPLY: THERMALTAKE TOUGH POWER 600 WATT
RAM: 2 GB (2X1GB STICKS) CORSAIR DDR2 6400 XMS2 EXTREME
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 w/ SP2

 

[robisbell]

exact model of the XFi card, please.
version of drivers used, please.

 

[Iceman3553]

driver version 5.12.8.1201
xfi model?how do i check that?

 

[robisbell]

the sticker on the card.

 

[boomerang]

Seagate bought out Maxtor.

Download SeaTools using the link on this page.

Boot from the floppy it creates (or CD, whatever you create) and run the diagnostics on the drive.

Dollars to donuts that HD is on it's last legs. I've seen the exact same problem before and it initially appeared to be driver related. Hardware would quit working, reinstall the driver all is OK, it would quit again a few days later and so on.

Your problem is quickly escalating beyond that. If you have anything valuable to you on that HD, you'd better get it off there now. If you still can.

I'd be interested to hear of your results.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Iceman3553
One day I started my computer up (see my build below) and I had no sound. I went in to dev manager and there was an exclamation point next to my SB X-FI driver. I uninstalled the driver then rebooted. When it restarted the sound was back. The comp would be fine for a boot or two. Then when I try to boot it on the third day (or it may even act up if I boot it again the same day after installing the drivers) it would corrupt the driver again. Most times my computer won't even boot do the the problem or get to the windows screen w/ the scrolling bar and restart itself due to the fatal error from the driver being corrupted OR the windows screen with the scrolling bar will fade in very slowly/ almost jerk in. Then when it finally fades in, the loading/scrolling bar will go across the screen fine once or twice, then it will just stop, then jerk, stop, then jerk again. This will go on for a few minutes forcing me to restart the computer. It is a very disturbing problem that makes me sweat and worry if my comp will boot the day I need it. Some times I will go on my other machine that is slow as hell compared to this one just to avoid the hassle of starting it. I would appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Mike


MY RIG
MOBO:ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium (COOLER MASTER LIQUID COOLING KIT)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 (2.4 GHz I think?)
HD: MAXTOR 320GB SATA 7200 RPM
VID CARDS: 2x NVIDIA 7950 GT 512 MB PCI-E
SOUND CARD:CREATIVE X-FI XTREMEMUSIC
POWER SUPPLY: THERMALTAKE TOUGH POWER 600 WATT
RAM: 2 GB (2X1GB STICKS) CORSAIR DDR2 6400 XMS2 EXTREME
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 w/ SP2

Remove the soundblaster card.

Can you reproduce all the computer problems?