Hello all, I hope you can help me out as I'm about to pull my hair out trying to fix this.
In the past month or so, while playing music or sounds, whether it be in Winamp or in games, if any sort of lockup occurs while playing sound, and I cant CTRL-ALT-DEL out of it, forcing me to do a hard reset or powerdown, upon rebooting, XP will freeze at the splash screen. Now I know this problem is caused by the Audigy as booting into Safe Mode and disabling the Audigy in Device Manager will cause XP to boot normally, albeit without any sound. What is also odd is that, when I get back into Windows after disabling the Audigy, and re-enable it, the sound will work while im in that Windows session, but upon rebooting the splash screen lockup occurs again. The only "fix" is booting into Safe Mode, uninstalling the Audigy, and re-installing it, but this isn't really a fix at all, as I've had to do this about 8 times, and it's quite time-consuming. I've tried using the drivers that came with my Audigy (bought in November 2001) and the Compaq drivers with the latest web drivers (as per packaging instructions from this forum) but both drivers seem to have this problem. Here's my PC specs
AMD Athlon XP 1600 at 1.4GHZ
512MB Micron DDR PC2100 Ram
EpoX 8KHA+ mobo with latest bios
Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+ (using Compaq driver software w/ latest web driver)
Windows XP Pro without SP1
DirectX 8.1
It should also be noted that, due to IRQ conflicts with my Maxtor (Promise-made) ATA-100 PCI IDE controller card, I have installed XP as a
Standard PC (non-ACPI).
Thanks in advance
vellox
In the past month or so, while playing music or sounds, whether it be in Winamp or in games, if any sort of lockup occurs while playing sound, and I cant CTRL-ALT-DEL out of it, forcing me to do a hard reset or powerdown, upon rebooting, XP will freeze at the splash screen. Now I know this problem is caused by the Audigy as booting into Safe Mode and disabling the Audigy in Device Manager will cause XP to boot normally, albeit without any sound. What is also odd is that, when I get back into Windows after disabling the Audigy, and re-enable it, the sound will work while im in that Windows session, but upon rebooting the splash screen lockup occurs again. The only "fix" is booting into Safe Mode, uninstalling the Audigy, and re-installing it, but this isn't really a fix at all, as I've had to do this about 8 times, and it's quite time-consuming. I've tried using the drivers that came with my Audigy (bought in November 2001) and the Compaq drivers with the latest web drivers (as per packaging instructions from this forum) but both drivers seem to have this problem. Here's my PC specs
AMD Athlon XP 1600 at 1.4GHZ
512MB Micron DDR PC2100 Ram
EpoX 8KHA+ mobo with latest bios
Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+ (using Compaq driver software w/ latest web driver)
Windows XP Pro without SP1
DirectX 8.1
It should also be noted that, due to IRQ conflicts with my Maxtor (Promise-made) ATA-100 PCI IDE controller card, I have installed XP as a
Standard PC (non-ACPI).
Thanks in advance
vellox
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