Finally! Nightmare over!
After hours of frustration and fruitless calls to Soyo and Creative, I was able to successfully install the Audigy Platinum EX on my Soyo Dragon Plus mobo with WinXP Pro!!
The key was to use PCI slot 4 (5 works too I think, but wanted the daughter card to be below the main card). Once I did that, things worked flawlessly. Called Soyo to let them know what the solution was and the tech's response was "huh, that makes sense 'cause slots 4 and 5 are busmaster slots and the firewire on board the soundcard would need that." Thanks for figuring that out AFTER the fact! Sounds a little screwy that slots 1 - 3 = no go, wish Via and Creative would get their respective acts together!
For anyone thinking they have a similar prob, my symptoms were as follows:
- When running the Creative installation CD it would get to the point where it was installing the drivers (97%) and would lock up, or
- If I tried to install them manually it would either lock up or after rebooting and logging in it would lock, or
- Sometimes I would get BSOD's at various points of installation, or
- Would run installation successfully (usually in Safe Mode) and upon reboot would not have the drivers loaded
- Inevitably, it would eventually toast my WinXP installation completely and I would start from scratch (went through that at least a dozen times)
Nevertheless, all is good once again and it has been rock solid ever since. Tried just about every other suggestion and trick before I stumbled across this and nothing worked. So hopefully, if you are in the same boat, keep that card out of PCI slots 1 - 3 and you should see success.
Blk`N`Tan
System info (now working!):
Lian Li PC-68 case
Soyo Dragon Plus (Bios 2BA1)
Athlon XP 1900+ (Retail HSF)
2 x 256MB Crucial Ram DDR PC2100
2 x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X 60GB 7200RPM
24x 10x 40x Plextor CDRW
16x Pioneer DVD
PNY Verto GeForce3 Ti 500 w/Det 21.83
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum Ex
Enermax 350W power supply
After hours of frustration and fruitless calls to Soyo and Creative, I was able to successfully install the Audigy Platinum EX on my Soyo Dragon Plus mobo with WinXP Pro!!
The key was to use PCI slot 4 (5 works too I think, but wanted the daughter card to be below the main card). Once I did that, things worked flawlessly. Called Soyo to let them know what the solution was and the tech's response was "huh, that makes sense 'cause slots 4 and 5 are busmaster slots and the firewire on board the soundcard would need that." Thanks for figuring that out AFTER the fact! Sounds a little screwy that slots 1 - 3 = no go, wish Via and Creative would get their respective acts together!
For anyone thinking they have a similar prob, my symptoms were as follows:
- When running the Creative installation CD it would get to the point where it was installing the drivers (97%) and would lock up, or
- If I tried to install them manually it would either lock up or after rebooting and logging in it would lock, or
- Sometimes I would get BSOD's at various points of installation, or
- Would run installation successfully (usually in Safe Mode) and upon reboot would not have the drivers loaded
- Inevitably, it would eventually toast my WinXP installation completely and I would start from scratch (went through that at least a dozen times)
Nevertheless, all is good once again and it has been rock solid ever since. Tried just about every other suggestion and trick before I stumbled across this and nothing worked. So hopefully, if you are in the same boat, keep that card out of PCI slots 1 - 3 and you should see success.
Blk`N`Tan
System info (now working!):
Lian Li PC-68 case
Soyo Dragon Plus (Bios 2BA1)
Athlon XP 1900+ (Retail HSF)
2 x 256MB Crucial Ram DDR PC2100
2 x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X 60GB 7200RPM
24x 10x 40x Plextor CDRW
16x Pioneer DVD
PNY Verto GeForce3 Ti 500 w/Det 21.83
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum Ex
Enermax 350W power supply
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