MAX Volume after driver upd

Why oh why does'nt someone in quality assurance do something about the drivers always maxing your volume after updates and installs. I find it completely frustrating to have to jab the mute key becuase my 6. system is pumping max volume when ever I update sound drivers. Even when I lower the volume and say do an update that requires multiple reboots, the volume control is always maxed every time. Pretty crappy QA.

I have had this happen on multiple systems with a fresh install of windows and the originial cd package. Every time I install the files, update the files etc, the volume control is maxed after the restart of windows. It usually ends up a scramble to hit mute key. I have had this with both my audigy 2 original and the sbli've32 sound cards. Doesnt matter the mother board or version of windows. I have installed it on everything from windows 95 to win64pro. Always after installing the drivers and restarting the volume control is set to max by the install. I have been building pc's since the 8086, my fist sound card was (Beep) Pc speaker ) The fist Sound Blaster card was a Sound Blaster, I thin it's an 8 bit card. I would have to check the old specs on it. All my old cards adorn my den as portraits to technology along with CPU's I have had. I always do a full format on my system every three months as I am not satisfied with the current utils out there that "Clean" Registry files. Upon windows install, most currently XP pro, I install the system first, video drivers, sound card drivers, them printer etc. So i dont see how anything could be running in the background to interfere. I ever tried changing the physical slots I put the card in to see if there was a shared resource, irq sharing conflict that is deemed ok by the system.

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