SoundBlaster problem?


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I just reinstalled my audigy platinum and the software but when I try to upgrade the drivers they say there is no hardware there and I just checked Windows Update and it didnt detect it? Oh and another thing is when I restart my computer some times it will just show me my wallpaper and a box in the middle that will have some letters at the top and an OK button on it, If you hit the OK button a bigger blank white box will come up and nothing will happen, Then I'll hit the reset switch and it will boot up fine. I know this has to be the audigy's doing because once I get ride of the software my ssystem is fine? Anyone have any ideas?

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OK I got the compaq drivers installed now and my system booted fine but it still thinks there is no hardware there? The strange thing is when I use the Creative diagnostic tool it picks up on the hardware but fails on everything else? Any more ideas would be great!

[edit]I forgot to say that little box still comes up it has the letters CTEaxSpl on the top ok it.[edit]

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Abit AT7

AMD XP2100

GF4 TI4600

SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum

1GB Corsair RAM

40GB WD harddrive

And I have my mobo's sound board disabled. I'm going to try a diffrent PCI slot now and see what happens.

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Start Menu > Creative folder > Sound Blaster Audigy > Creative Splash Screen

There's this big play button with a smaller one connected to it. Click on that one, and uncheck load on startup.

I think this disables EAX from automatically loading up with windows, but still works when games enables it. I could be wrong about this.

I normally always disable this when I first reinstall my OS.

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OK I put it in PCI slot 1 and when I booted up the system the hardware manager refound everything but it wants this file sfman32.dll on windows driver cabinet, Anybody know where this file is?

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Originally posted by SYNTHETIC

OK I put it in PCI slot 1 and when I booted up the system the hardware manager refound everything but it wants this file sfman32.dll on windows driver cabinet, Anybody know where this file is?

i think its a sound font manager

check drivers for sound card

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I found the file but now it told me,

setup cannot copy the file ksuser.dll

Ensure that the location specified below is correct, or change it and insert 'windows driver cabinet' in the drive you specify.

How do I do that?

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Synthetic I have the same mobo and sound card as you. Now that you got it in a good pci slot, give up on the compaq drivers for now. Remove them all restart and let windows install it's default ones. Then download the newest one's from creative's website and install those. That should work fine, and if you still got problems Then try the compaq ones, since you'll have all the files on the system. If it does ask for them they're on the xp cd, just leave it in the drive and you should be good.

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I had he same problem with my SB Live! Value when I went to cable internet after they installed the network card. I'd take out the NIC and the sound card would work fine. I tried everything and it still wouldn't work with the NIC in as well so I took out the sound card and I'm now using the built in sound card with no problems. I'm hoping to eventually get an Extigy which connects through the USB port instead.

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I'd hold off on the extigy if you play games, the usb 1 that it uses is to slow. Now if a usb 2 extigy came out, that would rock

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I got ride of the campaq drivers and restarted, hardware manager clicked in againe and came up with this,

The file 'e 10kx2k.sys' on Creative installer CD-ROM is needed.

Type the path where the file is located, and then click

OK.

Copy files from:

So should I put in the CD-ROM and try to find the files in there? And if a firewire extigy cam out that would be even better.

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Cancell that crap, don't use any file from the cd, the 2000 drivers will hose your system even worse. Try going to windows update and getting microsoft's newest driver for it then after installing that then try creatives from their website

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Oops!!!!!!! little to late for that!!!!! OK should I now install all the drivers and programs from the creative CD?

[edit]I installed the software and drivers off the Creative CD and I'm back to having to reboot twice. Nothing will detect that the sound card is there, not windows update and not any driver updates that I download from Creatives web site, now what?[edit]

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I reformated my harddrive and everything works great, thanks to all who gave me help!

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I have the same detection issue, but when I use Add Hardware, windows detects the SB Audigy card. I continue to install and I get the message that not enough resources are available. It's weird because I did not install new hardware and this started happening to me.

A few times I was able to have it working by either warmbooting or coldbooting it. But that gets annoying and now those 'methods' seem ineffective.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Originally posted by Synz

anybody have an intel fedora p3 mobo that also has an audigy thats had a problem with squealing, on here reading these posts? ;x

Apparently it's a 'common' problem with Intel mobo's. I had the same problem on mine and I fixed it by (this is the truth) putting a 3Com NIC in my PC. Buggered if I know how that fixes it, but it did.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT work for 3Com, really

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