Creative Audigy Zs2 Plat

BulletToothTony

OK, since I am bombarding you all with questions this morning, I figured one more won't hurt. I am at a loss right now and really don't have the time to really pick this problem apart. I finally got my new pc up and running last Saturday. As excited as I was that my OS and drivers were loaded (and looks really cool in the dark), I could not "play" because I had to go to an aniversary party. Well, the next day my father had one of his friends over and showed him my computer. Well since I had just got the thing up and running, I had not set up any security yet and pretty much got what I deserved. The guy screwed my system up by downloading a gambling applet, and when I tried to use my last system restore point, I found the applet had ruined everything.

Well, now that the sad story is out of the way, I hard killed and started over again. OS up and running fine, video card up and running (ATI AIW 9600XT), but when I went to load my sound card, I got no sound. Yet, I had before the tragic killing of my system. I tried my headphone jack and I got sound through there, so I know I am dealing with a driver problem, no a hardware problem. I remember reading something on newegg regarding the compatibility of ATI AIW cards with Creative Audigy drivers. So I uninstalled my video card and when I rebooted, I had sound on my speakers. So I then went to install the full package that came with my sound card (very nice I may add) and then I lost sound again.

I know that in order to really solve this issue I need to sit down and be patient for a good number of hours. Uninstall and start from scratch, loading sevice for service and take notes. But I figured to save some time, I would pick your brains and see if anybody else has gone through the same problem.

Thanks again,

Webmaster

OK, since I am bombarding you all with questions this morning, I figured one more won't hurt.

Don't worry about posting too much questions in forums that exists to allow people to ask questions

As for your sound problem, the first thing I would do (even if it would have worked) is download the latest drivers from the manufacturers site (if available of course) and try those. Just to be sure, I would place the card in another slot (after uninstalling it), reset the ESCD and boot.

I've had a reoccuring problem with the IRQ, even with IRQ sharing/steering I couldn't use the same IRQ for my audio and display, so I had to reserve another IRQ for the slot the sound card was in.

RussS

Most definitely download ALL of the various driver and program packages on the SB site. My audigy was a total pain in the butt until I did that.