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the mysterious lock up

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tekneke

Junior Member
Hello,
I just upgraded my MoBo to a Soyo Dragon Plus 1.0 Mb from a Gigabyte GA74T600L(crash and burned!) and i am having problems with windows xp locking up after i install the drivers for my sound card. This computer is used as a Digital Audio Workstation. specs then details
Specs:
Soyo Dragon Plus 1.0
athlon xp 2800 barton 333 fsb
512 mb ddr3200 ram
seagate sv2042h (20gb, 5400rpm)
seagate sv4084h (34gb, 5400rpm)
Raid0 - 2x Seagate 80gb, 7200rpm SATA Barracuda (not currently set due to some missing peices still in the mail)
Aardvark LX6 Sound Card
Geforce2 MX200 (I know it sucks)
Whenever i install the Drivers for the Aardvark LX6 and reboot the computer it locks up when it reaches the desktop at the same exact time everytime i boot it. Switching the slot of the sound card stops this but puts me back to where i started. I then un/re installed drivers on another pci slot(the last one, and every other one was tried also). I suspected it might be a problem with the mobo so threw in an old sound blaster! and it installed and functioned properly. I then put the Aardvark LX6 in my old 550mhz duron and installed the drivers and the LX6 functioned perfect. So i started messing around with the IRQs in the bios and the PnP settings but to no avail. Ohh and i installed both windows xp and xpsp1 twice and the same exact issue. What could this possibly be? I have tried everything i can think of. How could i find out if its the MoBo or the OS that is causing winXP to lock up everytime at the desktop? and how do i fix it?
Any comments and/or suggestions are greatly appreciated
tekneke
 
Does the Digital Audio Workstation have XP certified drivers? Have you tried installing with Windows 2000 compatibility (very similar to XP so I doubt that would work) or even better Windows 98/ME compatibility. Go online and make sure you have the latest drivers for the card before trying to install them. Install the card and don't install the drivers and see if the card works. If there is a Irq problem it should still lock up. If it runs fine than I would suspect more the driver being an issue.
 
Thank you for the quick reply
see the LX6 worked on winXP with the Gigabyte MoBo and it also works on the 550mhz with winXP. It is the latest driver also. When you say install with win2k compatibility do you mean install the actual OS or are you referring to some type of software/drivers for winXP? If there is something i can do to make it compatible with win2k/98 what would it be? I also tried to run the card w/o the drivers installed and it runs fine. It has a port, similar to parallel, that goes to a box which houses all of the inputs, which i unplugged and tried to boot it with just the pci card. This yielded the same results.
 
There is a compatibility mode built into Windows XP for older programs but since it worked on winxp with the Gigabyte that doesn't sound like that would be an option. When you install the drivers don't reboot and try and start the card. Maybe there is something that is being configured funny on reboot. Next, I would remove everything but the sound card in the computer and try installation. If you can disable usb and firewire and onboard sound etc try that route. See if some other peripheral or motherboard component is acting up. Basically, just have the cd-rom, one hardrive, and windows installed and then only the sound card. I hope you are not using a usb mouse or keyboard lol.
 
That is how i have been running the computer: just sound card, mouse/kb(not usb), 1 hd, and essentials. But the same problem still occurs. Any other ideas michaelpatrick33?
 
Originally posted by: michaelpatrick33
Does the Digital Audio Workstation have XP certified drivers? Have you tried installing with Windows 2000 compatibility (very similar to XP so I doubt that would work) or even better Windows 98/ME compatibility. Go online and make sure you have the latest drivers for the card before trying to install them. Install the card and don't install the drivers and see if the card works. If there is a Irq problem it should still lock up. If it runs fine than I would suspect more the driver being an issue.
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Drivers are not compatible between XP and Win98/ME. You're thinking of the compatibility mode built into XP that allows *PROGRAMS* (ie not kernel-mode drivers) to sometimes run in a special 640x480x256 sandbox mode.

In a nutshell, get the latest made-for-XP drivers for the card, and try again.
 
Originally posted by: tekneke

Whenever i install the Drivers for the Aardvark LX6 and reboot the computer it locks up when it reaches the desktop at the same exact time everytime i boot it. Switching the slot of the sound card stops this but puts me back to where i started. I then un/re installed drivers on another pci slot(the last one, and every other one was tried also). I suspected it might be a problem with the mobo so threw in an old sound blaster! and it installed and functioned properly. I then put the Aardvark LX6 in my old 550mhz duron and installed the drivers and the LX6 functioned perfect. So i started messing around with the IRQs in the bios and the PnP settings but to no avail. Ohh and i installed both windows xp and xpsp1 twice and the same exact issue. What could this possibly be? I have tried everything i can think of. How could i find out if its the MoBo or the OS that is causing winXP to lock up everytime at the desktop? and how do i fix it?
Any comments and/or suggestions are greatly appreciated
tekneke
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OK, so the drivers are good, and the card is good. So we're left with 'it isn't compatible with your motherboard'. Sorry. (Really!) Confirm you've got the latest drivers, and then contact the sound card maker for more advice. Or try updating your motherboard's chipset drivers.
 
I had a similar problem recently with a new video card. It would lock up with a black screen right before it got to the desktop. Device manager reported that it had no conflicts and was working fine. I tried everything and nothing worked. Then I simply transferred the card to the first PCI slot nearest the motherboard and that allowed it to work. Why that would work I have no idea in the world but sometimes solutions are not what you would ever think they would be. Maybe it might work for you.
 
You could very well have an IRQ conflick, although it doesn't happen much anymore...try moving your sound card to another PCI slot, and see what happens.
 
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