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2 ZS Notebook Bad Drivers
Updated via AutoUpdate (an originally working) 2 ZS Notebook driver to the recommended : -
SBAX_PCDRV_LB_2_8_000.exe
?... on XP sp 2 machine. Failed completely on Mike, Midi, and soundfonts. Plus strange interference on audio. Brought down Skype, Cubase and all sound generation. Audio became awful with inference and machine fallovers. Continual reinstalls took four days to recover machine to basic 2005 driver but now with poor interference prone sound worse than original. After many machine crashes from bad driver installations (no doubt from residual newer files not replaced) eventually had to use "Driver Cleaner" as Creative and MS uninstalls left these corrupting mismatched files. Cost a fortune in lost time and man hours.
One failure was obviously belatedly found by Creative, who issued beta Mike fix.
SBAX_PCDRVBETA_US_2_8_000.exe
This also failed dismally, this time wouldn't even run audio. Card stopped completely, no audio whatsoever, windows reporting unable to start card.
Action
First. Who's the Creative SB release manager - and how come they still have a job?
The replacement manager needs to stay in work 'til they get this driver fixed and fully XP tested. Hours not days.
End of.

Thank you for the reply split0,
as for the informati've post, thank you for the compliment, i tend to not open a thread at all unless i have spent enough time on the problem and searched around enough for solutions, and after that i only post if it has enough info regarding everything in inside the thread.
In regard to the known incompatibility list, unfortunatly this is one of the things i checked beforehand already.
The PCMCIA adapter in my laptop is a Texas Instruments PCI-8x2/7x2/6x2 CardBus-controller.
Which is one of the most common controllers and should normally not cause any troubles at all, also in another thread on this forum i found a differant driver for it, i even tried that with no result sadly.
At the moment personally i am thinking the whole problem lies within not being able to uninstall the onboard sound card to full extent somehow, and while i posted here i also have all this info in a direct message sent to creative, and even acer for that matter.
In hopes of some kind of solution for this so i can keep my hopes up for not having to return the card itself.
What bugs me is that there is option at all to disable the onboard sound through the bios.
Because right now whenever i install the ZS notebook card it checks hardware for the onboard first installing it again, then setting priority for the zs notebook.
This is what seems to result in the crashes through a conflict in drivers in my idea, but thats just a hunch which i cant do anything about currently in regard to testing unless someone has an idea for me to try.
Message Edited by Natharneal on 05-23-2008 0:54 PM

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Thank you for the reply split0,
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? A soundfont cannot contain alle drumkits, and it is not nessecary at all. I dont know a soundfont bank wich contains a complete set of drumkits, too. There are only some soundfonts like the crysis soundfont (to big for its "bad" quality) wich have some dummy-drumkits/ entrys or slightly modified sounds for each than usual. If all drumnkits would be stored in high-quality, the soundfont would be huge... Every synth i know uses the standard drumkit, if the chosen one is not existent. This is not optimal, but it will guarantee, that the the MIDI file or Program/ game will work. The KXDrivers wont do this. SO they are not useable for General MIDI. Only for MIDIs and soundfonts fitting together. But thats not the point of General MIDI. CMSS isnt working with these drivers, too. Dolby decoding/ encoding isnt possible with them, either. These drivers are not bad, but if you want a completely working card, KXdrivers are worthless.

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However if you install a RAID driver with just one SATA Hard drive, or two SATA hard drives, (this last scenario not set to be used in an array, but as two different use drives, lets say one for OS and one for MP3 Storage), then Windows begins to load, it will load the RAID driver, but since there's no RAID Array, Windows will keep "looking" for an inexistant RAID Array, and if there's no such RAID array, this will take forever.
That's why installing nVidia RAID Driver may hang your system (which as you saw is not really hung), at the Windows Splash Screen, it is just trying to find something that doesn't exitst.
NOTE: nVidia RAID Controller, supports RAID Arrays into both, the Serial ATA channels and the Parallel ATA (IDE) channels too. But for both options, you always need to have at least two identical hard drives installed to build up and use a RAID Array, which can only be seen by the nVidia RAID Driver, for both Serial ATA hard drives and Parallel ATA (IDE) hard drives.
NOTE: JBOD stands for Just a Bunch Of Disks = In this scenario, you can combine hard drives of different brands and/or capacities into one big drive that will be seen by Windows as one drive only.
NOTE: Even if you don't have any RAID array, you must install the nVidia nForce 4 Drivers. You can just leave the nVIDIA SATA Driver check box empty.
Hope this helps
I did not have any RAID or SATA drive in my system, actually these were disabled in BIOS. I had the similar experience though. BTW, why NF4 chiset driver is very important to install if Windows XP drivers can get the job done? Look at my link in the previous post.

Audigy 2 ZS Notebook on Windows 8 Release Preview

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Anyone had better luck with this card/OS combo? I've a desktop with a PCI Audigy 2 ZS that I'm considering upgrading from Win7 to Win8 to see if that's works any better.
I'd like to be able to have a hack around with drivers etc to see if there's something that can be done to get missing settings going, or maybe it's just never going to work without updated drivers with the newer audio system in Win8. Not really sure where to start though - there appears to be so many driver/component files involved in running the sound card!
Alternatively, I'd like to find a way to force any application to upmix to multi-channel, of course without actually changing the application. Programs like XBMC, Media Player Classic, Winamp have options / plugins to do this.
All idea/thoughts/comments welcomed!

I have moved to Lync 13 client and the same behavior is displayed.
Lync client crashes when connecting audio or receiving files.
Windows 8 was a clean build again with the Lync client installed.
This is making Lync unusable on Windows 8
Only info I get in the Event Viewer isthe bleow which isn't much help.
The program lync.exe version 15.0.4128.1019 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 21c0
Start Time: 01cd6e736cafacad
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\lync.exe
Report Id: 78e703ed-da82-11e1-9b7c-0026831240ef
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

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