eigna
11-04-2004, 11:27 PM
Bought an Audigy 2 ZS Gamer (probably doesn't matter as it just has a bundle) a few weeks ago and have had it lock up 4 times due to sound. 3 times on the Jedi Knight Jedi Academy game and once on just playing a windows media movie file, which has since then just run fine. When it locks up there's a continual buzzing type sound coming out of the speakers. I thought maybe it was the EAX extensions in Jedi Knight but I turned off EAX in the games settings and it still locked up. Twice it locked up just after starting and the third time was further into the game. At which point I just got frustrated and uninstalled the game. But then the other day it happened to me in Windows itself. Any clues, hints, advice? I used to have an SB Live, but took it out for the new card and also uninstalled all it's software/drivers. Then followed the directions on installing the Audigy2.
Here's what IRQ's are being shared from device manager. It's the only thing I can think of right now. But maybe I have a defective card that needs to be RMA'd. Hope I'm allowed to post that image it's only 64k. If not let me know and I'll just make it a link.
http://www.naples.net/~nfn05348/snap0054.jpg
Motherboard has 5 PCI slots. Starting from the bottom. The first 2 are taken up by the 2 modems, the next one is empty, the next is the Audigy2, next one empty, then the AGP slot. I don't think putting it on the AGP slot is a good idea b/c I think then it may share the IRQ with the AGP.
The Conexant is the bottom slot, it's a software modem that isn't used right now, the modem I currently use is the USR and that's a hardware modem.
The IEEE 1394 controller is on the Audigy 2 itself. Audigy 2 drivers are the latest that are from Creative's site.
Here's what IRQ's are being shared from device manager. It's the only thing I can think of right now. But maybe I have a defective card that needs to be RMA'd. Hope I'm allowed to post that image it's only 64k. If not let me know and I'll just make it a link.
http://www.naples.net/~nfn05348/snap0054.jpg
Motherboard has 5 PCI slots. Starting from the bottom. The first 2 are taken up by the 2 modems, the next one is empty, the next is the Audigy2, next one empty, then the AGP slot. I don't think putting it on the AGP slot is a good idea b/c I think then it may share the IRQ with the AGP.
The Conexant is the bottom slot, it's a software modem that isn't used right now, the modem I currently use is the USR and that's a hardware modem.
The IEEE 1394 controller is on the Audigy 2 itself. Audigy 2 drivers are the latest that are from Creative's site.