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Chris0516

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I have a Creative Labs Audigy 5/Rx. Just wondering, if. It has started to go EOL(End-Of-Life), because. It will sound good for a day, then. The audio degrades, until. I re-boot. Then it gradually happens all over again.
 
Have you ever updated the drivers? Sounds like you might have some part of the driver corrupt, as I have never heard of that happening before. I have all sorts of old sound blasters going back to the ISA days, and never ran into that one before.
 
You could try unloading the driver and reloading it. That would allow you to see whether it is more likely a hardware or software defect.

Is it binary good/bad or is it gradual?
 
Starfalcon said:
Have you ever updated the drivers? Sounds like you might have some part of the driver corrupt, as I have never heard of that happening before. I have all sorts of old sound blasters going back to the ISA days, and never ran into that one before.
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I checked the most up-to-date drivers available on Creative Labs website, for my SoundBlaster Audigy 5/Rx sound card. They are from 3yrs. ago.
uOpt said:
You could try unloading the driver and reloading it. That would allow you to see whether it is more likely a hardware or software defect.

Is it binary good/bad or is it gradual?
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I went ahead n' bought the SoundBlaster Z SE. The most recent drivers are less than a year ago.
 
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ummm...
at least you got a newer one.
 
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