Audigy2 zs platinum pro XP probl

4 weeks ago I purchased a system with the following items...
x - Intel Pentium 4 "LGA775 64-Bit Prescott" 3.4F (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-077-IN) x - Asus P5AD2 Premium 925X (LGA775) Motherboard (MB-070-AS)x 2 - Corsair GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x52MB) (MY-057-CS) x - Plextor PX-72A 2x4x DVDRW ReWriter - Retail (CD-04-PL) x - Plextor PlexWriter Premium 52x/32x/52x CD-ReWriter - Retail (CD-009-PL) x - Asus ATI Radeon X800 XT 256MB DDR3 VIVO TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-054-AS) x 2 - Western Digital Raptor 74GB 0,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-05-WD) x - Chieftec Dragon DA-0BD Full Tower - Hi-Fi Black (CA-029-CT) x - Hyundai ImageQuest Q995 9'' Perfectly Flat CRT Monitor - Black/Silver (MO-004-HY) x - Logitech Cordless Desktop MX for Bluetooth? - Retail (KB-06-LG) x - TDK LPCW-50 CD/DVD Printer (PR-000-TK) x - TDK Black Ink Cartridge for LPCW-50 Printer (PR-002-TK) x - TDK Red Ink Cartridge for LPCW-50 Printer (PR-003-TK) x - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Platinum Pro 7. - Retail (SC-08-CL)
I was so excited to get this up and running and start producing and remixing music. So I installed everything that I use in software. I was so chuffed everything was going smoothly especially when installing drivers. Computer does more than a few restarts without a problem. Everything is installed I am happy. So I turn off the computer for a long period of time, for example a overnight sleep. But Here is where I start to face the nightmare I have been experiencing until today when I find out what is the culprit for my nightmare. I found that the computer on a start up, after being switched off for a long period of time caused me so much problems and I have reformatted my computer 42 times now. Why you may ask well I was trying to find out why the computer was missing files and making these horrible blue sceen problems. I actually thought it was a software compatibily problem but I could not get over this issue as my other computer has everything installed that I use too. Any way bit by bit I installed software and still found that when the computer is switched of for a long period of times that the blue screen and missing files still occurs. This has also been tested on the following os like win xp with sp and with and without sp2 and win xp media center edition and home edition. By this time i was getting very tired and sad, but I still had the patients to carry on and try and try and try and try again with many different ideas.
Until last night I decided just to install xp on it's own with no drivers nothing but all hardware connected, then I left it switched off and went to my gig to DJ. On my return I turned on the computer to face the same problems as before, now this got me really mad and I guessed to myself this has to be hard ware problem. So what do I do next well I remove Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Platinum Pro 7. from the tower and reformatted the computer once more.
Guess what the problems I had been facing has dissapeared, I could not belei've this at all, Now I feel that this has been such a waste of time for me and money spent on this Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Platinum Pro 7. cause it does not want to work. Now All i wish for is some help or info.
Has any other people had simular experience as me, is there a fix for this sort of problem or a patch. Please please please can you help, I have done alot of searches too on google about this and came up with nothing, except on certain forums that creative don't really have a good support on problem issues, I just hope you can prove me wrong even with a nice reply...
So now I have to go with the onboard sound card on the motherboard, but I really want to use my new Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Platinum Pro 7......

Well what can I say I took your advise from the both of you very seriously and with curiosity. So I opened up my tower and re-inserted the sound card with prayers to my thoughts.
I went to bios and disabled the onboard sound controller part of the motherboard as instructed and use a different pci slot.
Well all is looking good so far as I have had everything working well including the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Platinum Pro 7.. but the real test will be tomorrow when i switch of the computer and turn it on tomorrow, but I do have that good feeling so far as I have had the computer on all day with Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Platinum Pro 7. running nicely and there has been several restarts as I have been updating the bios on the motherboard and graphics card.
As I said before the real test will be tomorrow when i turn on the computer as then it will have been off for a period of time and starting up the computer will see if your assesment was correct. But all I can say is a huge thank you and appreciation for you help and suggestion in helping me overcome my small headache hehehe.
I will surely let you know also when I turn on the computer tomorrow and the results, if all is well then I will hug you both surely too hehehe.
one small thing though before I sign off here. I thought that you could run to soundcards at the same time on a pc with no conflictions. If I am wrong then so be it but not to worry, just that I do a lot of music production and remixing as certain programs have the option of 2 sound cards....
Well until tomorrow I will reply again
thanx again

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