Audigy 2 ZS Platinum - Weird Crash

Hi everyone,
I have an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum and I am getting a crash in most of my games. The strange thing is I hear sounds repeating when the crash happens. Joint operations doesn't crash the system but the sound freaks out and I am able to select a different sound format from the menu and keep playing.
I am thinking the memory on the sound board may be bad. Is there a utility to test them memory?
The computer does pass all of the direct x tests and for the most part it works. The system will work from min to several hours before a crash will happen. Here are my system specs if you need them...
P4 3.2 Intel
.5GB Ram
Asus P4C-800 Motherboard
EVGA Nvidia 6800 Ultra Video Card
550 Watt power supply
Windows XP Pro
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum with Creative 7. speakers - when they work they sound great
I have all windows updates and all of my drivers and motherboard bios are up to date.Message Edited by DrReaper on 0-22-2005 03:7 PM

Hi guys
If your computer has any VIA chipset, and if your computer has any of the following problems, then you might need this driver.
The computer stops ("freezes", "hangs", "locks up"), or makes unusual noises when playing sounds.
The computer stops, or files are corrupted, when copying to or from an IDE DVD, CDROM, or CDRW dri've.
Sounds played by the computer are distorted or have a "crackling" noise.
The computer stops when playing 3D graphics or games, especially on an ATI Radeon series video card</LI>
There is a patch for VIA chipset and the patch WORKS for me! Try them at - http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/ Look under "PCI Latency" patch for VIA chipsets. If you do not have a VIA chipset, you could also try the Turbo patch mention at that website.

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Hi, I bought the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum to get professional Soundfont playback triggered by an external midi keyboard, Soundfont creation using Vienna, and ideally Cubasis with ASIO.
I'm having major problems: When I try and play Soundfonts from either the SoundFont Bank Manager or Vienna, after a couple of minutes I get a high-pitched tone and the computer locks up. I've heard this is the infamous "squeal of death," but am unsure of the fix on my particular machine:
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I've done the equivalent of a clean sweep: wiped the drive and restored from backup to a pre-Creative state, then reinstalled the Creative stuff. No help.
The squeal/lockup happens whether I use the on-screen keyboard or an external midi keyboard, and regardless of what banks are loaded - even small banks like the default 4MB GM presets. It seems to happen at some random point during Soundfont usage, anywhere from one minute to 30 minutes into a session - but it always happens.
I'm not playing difficult passages with a lot of polyphony. In fact the squeal of death sometimes happens when playing just a simple melodic line. I tried allocating more ram in Soundfont Bank Manager, but this didn't seem to help. Creative Diagnostics shows no problems.
I've heard that turning off ACPI sometimes eliminates lockups with Creative cards. However, Windows 98SE installs ACPI by default, and my BIOS doesn't let me turn it off. I understand that by installing from a command line and using a setup switch I can install Win98SE without ACPI. But although I'm handy with computers and good at following instructions, I don't know command line syntax.
Could someone please walk me through the steps? Let's say I boot from a floppy, activate CD-ROM support, get the A-prompt, and put the Windows 98 SE CD in the drive. (Are those the initial steps?) Now what are the exact command lines I would use to run the setup switch, which is something like setup/pi ?
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I've tried uninstalling the WDM drivers and installing the VXD drivers using Creative's CTZAPXX. That seemed to stop the squeal of death, but greatly limits midi functionality. For example, the WDM drivers recognized that my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum has two sets of midi inputs/outputs: one on the gameport, and one on the platinum drive. It's the platinum ones you can use out of the box, because the adapters are included. Under the WDM drivers, I could choose the second midi port and my external keyboard would trigger the Soundfonts. But under the VXD drivers only one midi port appears in Control Panel or midi apps, and I guess it's the gameport, because all notes from my external keyboard hooked up to the platinum drive's midi input are now ignored. I reinstalled the VXD drivers, but same result. The platinum drive is definitely hooked up; the audio inputs and outputs are working, and my external midi keyboard is definitely sending midi notes.
Could Creative or anyone please confirm that the VXD drivers don't see the platinum drive's midi port? Is there a workaround? If the WDM drivers are unstable, and Win98SE users have to fall back to the VXD drivers to get reliable operation, then could Creative please include a gameport-to-midi adapter in the box, so platinum customers can still use midi?
Are there any other reports of the squeal of death with the 810e chipset?
I'm using DirectX 9.0c. Is this appropriate, or should I be using an earlier version?
The power supply on my machine may be a bit wimpy. Could that be a problem? The published specs are:
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Finally, how often is the squeal of death solved by simply exchanging the card? (It's only a week old.)
Thank you in advance for any help you can give me. Best regards.
M_Harrisson

M_Harrisson wrote:
- No, my BIOS doesn't have "PCI Config 32 Clock Retry."
I took some time to look back in my archives. The canonical SOD problem was seen on WinXP on certain Dell systems using Intel motherboards incorporating certain new (at the time) Intel chipsets. I have the i815 chipset referenced in my archives, though not the i810. Dell systems, such as the 8100, did not have access to said BIOS setting, and needed a BIOS update enabling the bit to resolve the SOD problem.
The main variant of the problem did not occur with the VxD drivers at the time, because those drivers were able to enable BIOS settings. WDM drivers were not permitted to change BIOS settings, so the problem did surface with them on susceptible chipsets. Unless there has been a change in this area to the VxD drivers, your reporting hangs with them implies implies a different problem.
- My other PCI slot was occupied by a Rockwell 56K modem, but I've done a clean reinstall (WDM) without the modem card. I haven't done enough testing to fully report on results. I did get the squeal of death after an hour, but it could be related to a public domain soundfont that was not well-behaved. (Or maybe the Audigy 2 ZS is not well-behaved!)
I really don't think there's a way a soundfont can cause the PCI bus to seize up. I think it would be a good idea to try moving the soundcard to the slot the modem was in, if you haven't already.
In mentioning my computer's power supply, I was relating this to the squeal of death, not the midi port on the platinum drive failing to appear under the VXD drivers.
So was I, although I was keying on your use of an external keyboard, probably incorrectly. You are describing your system as very stable unless the soundcard is used a specific way, and I didn't get the sense that there would be much difference in power requirements involved in that.
I'm thinking that PCI systems are designed to function within certain tolerances. A 56K modem card might make lighter demands on PCI resources than an Audigy 2 card. The modem's handshaking protocols might make it oblivious to momentary timing errors, while the Audigy 2 card might be less forgiving of a wimpy power supply or a PCI subsystem that's not quite up to par. Just a theory. Anyway, I may try the card in another machine and see if it fares better. Wish it weren't so finicky!
That's not bad thinking, and trying it in another machine is a great idea, though one often not very practical for customers who may only have one machine available.
Last night I was noticing that with my external keyboard driving the platinum drive's midi input, there are random delays. The notes will be tight for a few seconds, but then a couple of notes that were played cleanly on the keyboard will spill over each other like dwarves tumbling out of a silly car. Is this a known issue with the platinum drive's midi port when playing soundfonts, or could this be a symptom of an underlying timing issue with my PCI subsystem? (I know there may not be an easy answer to questions like this.)
Has anyone compared the "tightness" of gameport midi vs. platinum drive midi? Is gameport midi any tighter? (I'm on a budget, and don't want to shell out for a gameport-to-midi adapter only to get more of the same.)
I've not heard of this particular complaint before and I have listened a lot. PCI-level problems tend to be of the nature of snap-crackle-pop symptoms (or hangs). What you describe sounds more like a problem with something like interrupt lockout. Without knowing Windows internals very well, a driver coping with lots of recoverable errors might cause that, or if a device causing lots of interrupts is sharing an IRQ with the soundcard, or sometimes multiprocessing support has weaknesses which lead to interrupt latency issues.
When loading and unloading different soundfonts, is memory fragmentation much of an issue? (either PC memory or the Audigy 2's internal memory?).
It can be an issue with being able to load very large soundfonts, but not really much otherwise. The A2 doesn't really have internal memory.
With the Audigy series you're no longer limited to 32 MB soundfont banks. You can load much larger banks into PC memory, but the PC has to send chunks of sound data to the Audigy as needed. I'm wondering if this has impacted stability. Maybe it requires some intensive bursts of data to be sent from PC memory over the PCI bus to the Audigy 2 card.
That part is done on demand, and is driven by what you are playing at the moment rather than everything in the soundfont. If the system is sufficiently memory-tight, allocating more system memory to soundfont storage might lead to excessive paging activity (which could also be behind erratic sluggishness in the system's response to MIDI keyboard events). (In fact, 192MB of system RAM doesn't sound like a lot, even for Win98, when you need to dedicate MB's of it to soundfont storage.)
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Problems in that area are far more likely to be expressed as dropped notes that to be behind system hangs.
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Audigy 2 ZS Platinum PRO meltdown All fixed

Hi all.
Normally I tend to help, but this time the tables have turned and I am looking for help. :smileysurprised:
My lovely Audigy 2 ZS Platinum PRO sound card was working lovley, no hickups or problems until I upgraded my monitor yesterday.
I have upgraded to a lovely CTX Triniton USB CRT monitor (to replace my old generic 7" monitor).
For some unknown reason EAX console nolonger works. It crashes with an error report.
"AppName: eax.exe AppVer: 2..8.0 ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0082ce85"
Surround Mixer no longer works either, in fact NONE of the Creative applications work, however the card works in games and music applications.
I am completely at my wits end. I uninstalled ALL of the drivers/applications and deleted the Creative directory. I am using the stock drivers and applications off the CD, but even THEY do NOT work!!!
HELP!!!
I reverted back to my old generic 7" monitor, but the problems still persisted!!
What is going on?
I did a full virus and spyware scan and that found NOTHING!!
Any help and advice would be appreciated.
PS I cannot reformat because I am using a RAID0 array which has important data on it.
Thanks
Message Edited by JohnZS on 09-09-2005 0:3 AM

JohnZS wrote:
Hi all.
Normally I tend to help, but this time the tables have turned and I am looking for help.
My lovely Audigy 2 ZS Platinum PRO sound card was working lovley, no hickups or problems until I upgraded my monitor yesterday.
I have upgraded to a lovely CTX Triniton USB CRT monitor (to replace my old generic 7" monitor).
For some unknown reason EAX console nolonger works. It crashes with an error report.
"AppName: eax.exe AppVer: 2..8.0 ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0082ce85"
Surround Mixer no longer works either, in fact NONE of the Creative applications work, however the card works in games and music applications.
I am completely at my wits end. I uninstalled ALL of the drivers/applications and deleted the Creative directory. I am using the stock drivers and applications off the CD, but even THEY do NOT work!!!
HELP!!!
I reverted back to my old generic 7" monitor, but the problems still persisted!!
What is going on?
I did a full virus and spyware scan and that found NOTHING!!
Any help and advice would be appreciated.
PS I cannot reformat because I am using a RAID0 array which has important data on it.
Thanks
CTX Triniton USB CRT --> does USB mean, there are USB hub/controller(s) 'onboard' --> how many USB controllers more can be seen on device manager? Some of these may share IRQ with Audigy or its 'add-ons'.
Try to disable all those new USB controllers 'comes with monitor' or turn them OFF (from monitor panel) if it's possible. You can then later apply them easily.
Also, did you install some software bundled with monitor. Thse may have changed some files to newer or older versions. Try re-installing SP2/directX/patches for OS.
.jtpMessage Edited by jutapa on 09-08-2005 :23 PM

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I just bought a used Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro as stand-alone,meaning no HUB.
I couldn't care less about the HUB,because I would be using it only with headphones for games. That is until I found out it has NO MIC jack on the PCI board!!
Apart from being puzzled to why Creative would skip putting a MIC jack on the board I've being trying to find out which alternati'ves (if there are any) I could use.
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X-Fi I/O Console Upgrade Kit:would this one (it has an AD-Link cable) work?
http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=&subcategory=6&product=47&nav =2
Any other alternati'ves?
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Ty in advance.

Thats simple: I bought it on Ebay.
The thing is: I cant blame the seller because he clearly stated it was a "stand-alone".
But I never heard of a sound-board which didn't have any "IN" jacks on itself. That is:until now.Always thought front-panels and hubs were add-ons...
This particular one only has 3 jacks for output.On a card supposedly to be the best of the ZS series its particularly weird.
I have been using 2 sounds cards without any issues so I guess this is the "best" solution.

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Hi,
I've recently bought an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum and I must say I'm very pleased with it.
I'm using an external audio receiver on witch I can only connect coaxial or optical. I've read the thread about digital connections and I know that its impossible to get surround sound with SPDIF in a game because it doesn't use an audio player (I have an ac3 encoder).
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JohnZS wrote:
Hi all.
Normally I tend to help, but this time the tables have turned and I am looking for help.
My lovely Audigy 2 ZS Platinum PRO sound card was working lovley, no hickups or problems until I upgraded my monitor yesterday.
I have upgraded to a lovely CTX Triniton USB CRT monitor (to replace my old generic 7" monitor).
For some unknown reason EAX console nolonger works. It crashes with an error report.
"AppName: eax.exe AppVer: 2..8.0 ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0082ce85"
Surround Mixer no longer works either, in fact NONE of the Creative applications work, however the card works in games and music applications.
I am completely at my wits end. I uninstalled ALL of the drivers/applications and deleted the Creative directory. I am using the stock drivers and applications off the CD, but even THEY do NOT work!!!
HELP!!!
I reverted back to my old generic 7" monitor, but the problems still persisted!!
What is going on?
I did a full virus and spyware scan and that found NOTHING!!
Any help and advice would be appreciated.
PS I cannot reformat because I am using a RAID0 array which has important data on it.
Thanks
CTX Triniton USB CRT --> does USB mean, there are USB hub/controller(s) 'onboard' --> how many USB controllers more can be seen on device manager? Some of these may share IRQ with Audigy or its 'add-ons'.
Try to disable all those new USB controllers 'comes with monitor' or turn them OFF (from monitor panel) if it's possible. You can then later apply them easily.
Also, did you install some software bundled with monitor. Thse may have changed some files to newer or older versions. Try re-installing SP2/directX/patches for OS.
.jtpMessage Edited by jutapa on 09-08-2005 :23 PM

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Oh man, thank you thank you thank you! I could kiss you if you were here! After month and years of having problem with this card I can finally listen to what I want with no pain.
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Hi there,
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Is there a WinXP64Pro EAX console installer? I updated via the web update but it didn't help.
As an asside I have Creative Inspire T7700 speakers paired withmy Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro.
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In the past I used the diagnostics and speaker set up properties from the EAX console, etc to get it to work properly, but since that doesn't work, I'm at a loss.
Any help would be appricated!
Thanks!
Tre
Message Edited by tr3online on 08-24-2008 0:48 PMMessage Edited by tr3online on 08-24-2008 0:48 PM

When I go to the speaker configuration wizard, I can select all the different channels, but once it goes to volume adjustment, I only get sound from the front channels from there on out.

Analog inputs no longer working on Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro's external dr

I have an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro. After two years of use without problems, the analog inputs on the external dri've have stopped working. I get no signal from them, not even noise. All 3 inputs are silent, Line in / Mic and Line 2 in the front, and Line 3 in the back. Otherwise the dri've appears to function normally - I get output from the headphone jack, and the volume control knob works. I have not tested digital inputs or outputs, as I currently have no digital devices to connect to them.
I had made no major changes to my computer - software or hardware - when the problems began. I recently added a new SATA hard dri've, but the Audigy dri've did work after that.
I've taken steps suggested in another thread on this forum and uninstalled all Creative software and drivers, used the latest driver package's uninstall program as well as Driver Cleaner, and finally manually deleted everything related to Creative and Audigy from the system registry (and rebooted quite a few times in between). I then installed the original drivers from the CD that came with the sound card (a setup that has worked before), but still the problem persists.
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Hard dri've 2: Maxtor 6L080J4, 80 GB IDE
Hard dri've 3: Seagate ST330083, 300 GB SATA-II

I don't have a Platinum Pro or the dri've, but a general hardware troubleshooting step I would take would be to remove the soundcard and either move it to another slot or re-seat it. Also, I'd disconnnect and reconnect all cables to and from the card and the dri've. If I had another machine I could try the card or dri've in, I'd do that. If I could borrow another dri've or even another card, I'd test those too. (Swapping parts is often the simplest diagnostic.) Yeah, maybe it's not a hardware problem, but I'd take these steps just to rule out some possibilities.
Edit: And if you can remove or disconnect the SATA dri've and restore the system to the condition before you installed it, that's another good test.Message Edited by Katman on 2-8-2005 2:56 AM

Microphone connection problems with SB audigy 2 ZX platinum pro

I am using an old SB audigy 2 ZX platinum pro purchased back in 2004. It is installed on a PC that I stopped using it in 2005. The pc has no problems and I have started using it again.My problem is that I cannot connect the microphone. Everything was working fine at the time I was this pc including the microphone.At that time I had installed win xp pro( no service packs were available). But after I had to move physically in another location(connection and disconnections etc)and a pc format I cannot use the microphone again. I am trying to connect it to the front panel and to the appropriate places as indicated in the user manual but nothing is happening. I have connected properly the sound cart and all other components are working fine. I checked whether the microphone is checked to silent mode and all other software/di'vers nonetheless everything is working fine. I am now using Win xp pro sp3. I have contacted Creative and they told me to check the mic boost option. But there is no mic boost option now. I clearly recall that there was one when I was using this pc in 2004 under win xp pro(again no service packs were available at that time).One solution I could think is to format again and install some old version of win xp pro (say 2003 or so) and then update to current. But I do not want to format again since I do not have that version of windows available(copyright issues may also raise) plus for some other reasons I do not think I should mention them on an Internet forum. I also tried to download the latest drivers ans apps form creative ,clean installation from the orginal cd including Daniel_K pack and everything someone could think without solving the issue.Creative during our last communication in a very polite way told me to stop emailing them and try to solve the issue on my own as this product is no longer supported. One thing I neglected to mention above is that the mic boost option is available in the motherboard sound chipset. I checked it in one of my attempts to solve the problem. But it disappears when installing the SB driver. I know that if I manage to configure mic boost in the driver settings I will solve the problem.But once again there is no such option. Could you please provide with some suggestions and solutions on how to solve this?. Thank you very in advance for any suggestion and help

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Technical Support Request - (Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Hacked?

I just want to know yes or no can a sound card or video card be hacked. More importantly my old computer was hacked right down to the bios. Can not install windows nothing works. Is it safe to put my Audio Card (Audigy 2 ZS Platinum) into a new computer or could doing so harm my new computer? Should I just by another card? I would love to save the money from not buying another card but not if there is any chance that it will harm my new computer. >Original Message Follows:>------------------------>=======================>>Subject: CLI - Technical Support Request - (Audigy 2 ZS Platinum)>Name: Br Gordon 32>Self Description: Intermediate PC User>Country: United States of America>------------------>Support Inquiry: ID(5) I need help with a third-party software>application>Product: Audigy 2 ZS Platinum>------------------>Operating System: Windows XP>Computer Brand/Model: E Machines>Processor/CPU: pentium 4
2.0 ghz>Memory: 52 mb>>Detailed Problem Description:>I have two questions. One I have Audigy 2 zs>sound card in an old computer that got hacked>bad. I was thinking of using it in my new>computer but my old computer got hacked right>into the bios. I have not been able to get a>tech to fix it because it was hacked so bad. So>my question is this. Is it safe to put this>sound card in my new computer?>> If someone can get into my bios could they do>something to a sound or video card that would>make it dangerous to put in a new computer?>Should I just buy a new sound card from you?
THE QUESTION BELOW CAN BE IGNORED I was just curious about the answer.
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No, it can't

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