audigy gamer problems

[huxley]

Ugh, I recently installed xp again and tried installing my wonderful soundblaster audigy gamer. On my last motherboard the install would stop at 97% and freeze the computer and I had to hard reboot. I could never get it to install without freezing no matter how I added the drivers


Now on my new motherboard I got a BSOD and a message that stated "IRQ not equal or less than" message and had to reboot and the damn thing is still not working. Is this card fried or something? I have tried many ways to install the driver but to no avail. My luck has been horrid with computers lately

 

[darktiger]

Try changing IRQ's or PCI Slots.

 

[huxley]

That is what I am going to try. How do I change IRQ's of devices, throught the BIOS? I tried changing them in windows but since the device was not properly installed it would not let me even view the IRQ info

 

[jacuzz1]

IF you have onboard sound set auto set it to disable.


One of your pci slots has a dedicated irq its usaly slot 2 , call your mobo support line to confirm. I had that issue back in the day when used an abit board.Finaly in your cmos make sure its set to non plug an play os , then the mobo will sort things out.

Much better than Xp ever could i might add.