Audigy 2 ZS plat live drive prob

Hey everyone, I've had this problem for several months now (since I first got this card and li'vedri've, actually). The deal is that when I plug my headphones + mic into the li'vedri've in front and set the Creative Surround Mixer settings to Line 2/Mic 2, it works fine for awhile. Everyone can hear me in Ventrilo, Teamspeak, on CS, or whatever... but after awhile the settings get changed in the Creative program. I'll have to alt-tab out and see that instead of it being set on Line 2/Mic 2, its changed to the Microphone input...Has anyone experienced this problem? I gave up on it with my old headphones, cause the mic went out. Now I have some Sennheiser PC-50s and I want to be able to talk in my games again! Please help me figure out what could be causing the software to change inputs on me! You would think there would be an option to "save" your settings, but I don't see one, so I'm looking for some advice on here!Thanks in advance!-Nick-

Well, I just searched the forums here and found that this is a common problem in Counter-Strike, not the Creative software. I will try the solutions the other users have tried, and hope it works. If anyone still has a helpful comment, please post!

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Well, I just searched the forums here and found that this is a common problem in Counter-Strike, not the Creative software. I will try the solutions the other users have tried, and hope it works. If anyone still has a helpful comment, please post!

Sounblaster live driver prob

Hi,
I installed my soundblaster li've on windows xp, but it doesn't work properly:
Actually it works when it wants...
this morning i was listening music, the sound was perfect for 0 minutes but after i could hear unpleasant scratch sounds periodically...
i went in the device manager, their was an error on the audio controller: "the device couldn't start..."
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To summarise everything worked ok for a period of time, then, when attempting to use the headphones (which had worked prevoiusly) there was no sound. Further investigation revealed that the remote, mic 2 and aux in 2 (which also worked previously?) also did not work but a red light still shows in optical out. You have tested these using the surround mixer to select the appropriate inputs.
The red light in optical out shows you have power and connectivity to the card also they appear in the mixer ( if I understand your initial post correctly) which shows the card detects the front bay.
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Alright, I've been searching the posts on this board for the past hour with no luck in solving my problem.
Here are my system specs:
Core 2 Duo E4300
4GB G.Skill DDR2-800
eVGA 8800GTX
Audigy 2 ZS Plat
2x320GB SATA RAID 0
Windows XP x64 SP2
Whenever there is sound playing during HDD activity the sound clicks, hisses, and pops severely, definitely to the point of being unusable. This happens with both the rear jack and the front panel. The RAID array is on the JMicron controller on the board, not the Intel ICH8 south bridge. This problem does not seem to exist under Windows Vista x64, but that is so unstable that I really need XP to work correctly. I also have the Surround Mixer, Speaker Setup, and EAX Console apps installed, if that means anything.
Things I have tried:
Driver reinstallation
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"Clean boot" method described in the FAQ<
Things I have not tried:
Putting the card in another PCI slot
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Changing the IRQ of the card
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Changing the PCI latency<
I don't know a whole lot about the last two (the IRQ and the latency) so if someone could help me out there I'd really appreciate it. Thanks for checking out my problem and for any help you may provide.
EDIT: I have fixed the issue! The problem was I was using an older driver for the JMicron controller when I slipstreamed it into my XP x64 install disc. I had used the newest one when I installed Vista. I'll keep this post here to help out anyone else who has this issue!
Get the driver!
Message Edited by stncttr908 on 05-4-2007:32 PM
Message Edited by stncttr908 on 05-7-20072:3 PM

Query On Functions/Capability/Installation of Audigy 2 ZS Plat

<EM>Query On Functions/Capability/Installation of Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro</EM>
Need Help !!!
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2: If were to link up Audigy to playback THX. in a home audio sys. example: link PC to projector/home audio amps(non THX cert) 5./7. dolby only(non optical) individual RCA only and cert THX spks. Pls reco neccesary ste
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Oh Ya forgot one thing. Do Any Creative Staff reply to this forum ?
If so pls do consider in the options available in the ICE industry.
Pls Liase to your "taukeh" .... :smileyvery-happy:
if all goes well... and products become available to public... easier for me to purchase/source....
pls dun forget my very small percent in royalties......
regards.

Computer compatible with sounblaster audigy 2 ZS Plat

I currently have the 6bit version of soundblaster li've on a dell dimension 2400 PC and was curious if i would be able to install soundblaster audigy 2 ZS Plat Pro instead. Is my computer compatible with this because im having difficulty finding anything out from Dell

ACUBaller83,
If your system fits to these specifications then it should work, just make sure to completely uninstall the Li've! before installing this (and put the Audigy 2 ZS into a different PCI slot).
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*sigh* Where to start?
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P.S.: It seems that these forum don't want to play nice with me either. Appologies for the horrid formatting of this post. I hope there aren't too many cases of bleeding eyes because of it =).

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Message Edited by Wortex on 2-02-200606:49 PM

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