Sound lockups with Audigy & XP=No boot

[vellox]

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

 

[Mem]

I`m using an Audigy on Epox 8KHA+ and it works great,I`m using PCI slot 2 (counting from AGP side) and it does not share IRQ,disable onboard sound,disable gameport and midi address in bios as well.I just installed from CD (Audigy wise) rebooted and got the latest Audigy updates from Creative`s site,I also have SP1 installed but it has been working fine before and after SP1 was installed.


Hope this helps.

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).

Using it in non-ACPI might be the problem,btw how many HDs do you`ve installed? If possible might be easier just to use the onboard IDE ATA-100 controller of the Epox board on its own,also if you do have lots of HDs installed,I would hope you`ve a decent PSU as well.

 

[vellox]

Well, it's funny you mention that, because I've been thinking about my power usage. I currently have an Antec 300Watt, which probably isn't enough for 3 hard drives, a CD-Rom and a burner (though the cd-rom died, so i'm going to remove it). Upon checking, it appears the Audigy is shared with my NIC.