blue screens

[omz]

hey all, i recently went through a lil driver upgrading and now i cant seem to get my comp to boot up
i installed some new drivers for my audigy 2 zs edition but saw that the control panel for it was uninstalled...i decided to uninstall the new drivers and reinstall the old ones via the cd it came with
did this and now i can get into windows and desktop...however, there is a startup that has something to do with the audigy (im thinking its the product registration) and it gives me a blue screen and then a reboot
i thought it was the memory at first (as it was a problem that caused blue screens before) but now im not so sure. i ahvent tried the memory in a different comp as of yet, but i cleaned out the DIMMs and reset the cmos (this fixed blue screens last time)
if anyone has any suggestions, please tell
thanks

 

[hity645]

Run the error codes the blue screen gives you, also check the voltages on the ram.

 

[omz]

Run the error codes the blue screen gives you, also check the voltages on the ram.

the comp reboots before i can see any of the codes, it give me a blue flash with some type for a second or 2 and then reboots...voltage on ram is 2.6v in bios (i believe the ultra-d gives around a .4 overvolt tho so ab out 2.64v)
i would remove the audigy but theres a lil nudge in the case that is directly over its pci slot (unlucky eh?) so removing it wud mean removing teh mobo and redoing all the wires...oh well, if it comes to that i'll do it and 1 more thing to do over summer

 

[omz]

bump
anyone have any ideas?
im gunna see if i can take out the audigy

 

[mikeblas]

Your post is not very clear; I can't make enough sense of it to understand what's happening. For example, a nudge is a small push or a shove. I can't understand how a shove can get into the way of removing a card. I'm also not sure if you're booting into Windows and crashing immediately, or only after a certain application runs.

Can you boot into safe mode? If so, I'd get into safe mode and roll back to the last known good configuration before you screwed-up the drivers.

You can also set the error handling mode so you can capture the blue screen error and figure out, for sure, which driver is causing the problem. You can use the instructions in this sticky to do that.

 

[omz]

Your post is not very clear; I can't make enough sense of it to understand what's happening. For example, a nudge is a small push or a shove. I can't understand how a shove can get into the way of removing a card. I'm also not sure if you're booting into Windows and crashing immediately, or only after a certain application runs.

Can you boot into safe mode? If so, I'd get into safe mode and roll back to the last known good configuration before you screwed-up the drivers.

You can also set the error handling mode so you can capture the blue screen error and figure out, for sure, which driver is causing the problem. You can use the instructions in this sticky to do that.

hope this pictures helps:

theres that little piece of the case in the way. i can pull it out a miniscule amount but not far enough so the card will actually come out of the slot (it hits the object before it gets high enough)
everything loads up on my desktop: the desktop icons, norton, smartguardian etc. and i can use my mouse, look at the start menu and so on. however, there is an autostartup for the audigy (i think its the program that asks u to register) that starts up and once that thing is loading for a few seconds, i get a BSOD and crash...sometimes, the BSOD doesn't popup and it just reboots, other times it does.
will boot into safe mode right now and i'll check out that thread
thanks

 

[omz]

update:
i wasnt able to boot into safemode via f8 but for the minimal time i was stable in windows i got to msconfig using Run and then set it to boot from safemode from there
got into safe mode and tried a system restore but no luck...i tried "system checkpoint" but it wouldn't let me restore from there
now im uninstalling the audigy drivers (creative + soundblaster) and am going to try and reinstall in safemode

 

[pstang]

theres that little piece of the case in the way. i can pull it out a miniscule amount but not far enough so the card will actually come out of the slot (it hits the object before it gets high enough)

well you had to have put the card in there somehow... if you got it in you can get it out... but that is beside the point

the advice i would give is that in dealing with creative drivers is that if the card is working as it should i would not mess with the drivers... it has caused me as well as others many headaches when the drivers were updated... i would say if it comes down to it back up anything you want to keep on the hdd and do a format and a fresh install

 

[omz]

well you had to have put the card in there somehow... if you got it in you can get it out... but that is beside the point

the advice i would give is that in dealing with creative drivers is that if the card is working as it should i would not mess with the drivers... it has caused me as well as others many headaches when the drivers were updated... i would say if it comes down to it back up anything you want to keep on the hdd and do a format and a fresh install

i said that i put it in the mobo before i actually screwed it in, meaning that if i pulled the mobo out i could take the card out
well right now its working fine, got into safe mode and uninstalled the creative + soundblaster drivers and rebooted...then windows auto detected new hardware and i installed the enw stuff via cd + windows install wizard
everything is fine but i have not put in the audi control panel, will do it sometimes later in summer where i will have time to troubleshoot if it happens again
thanks for all th e help guys