No sound from Audigy SE ca

I am running XP SP2. We install the SE cards without any errors. Device mananger and the Sound options from control panel all show everything is hunky dorry. Yet I can't get any sound from the card. I have tried using both digital and analog speakers. We have removed and uninstalled the driver several times. We have tried many different SE cards in many different PCs. Our previous card was the Audigy Value and it worked fine. One of the oddball indicators that something is wrong (besides no sound) is that when you go to the sound panel and try to play sounds (like the asterisk beep) the play button changes to stop (as it should when a sound is playing), but the button never returns to the play icon (as it should when the sound is complete). This leads me to think that there is something wrong with the driver, but all the driver changes I try result in the same thing.

Hi there,I'm having the same problem as you with Win 2003 server on an Asus DSBF-DE server mainboard. Is your SB0570 Audigy SE plugged in a PCI X slot ( not a PCIe slot, tottaly? different interface ) ??Did some experimenting? since the Audigy SE (SB0570) is working in an Asus DSBV-D server mainboard with Win 2000 server and Win XP. The SB0570 working in the DSBV-D server board is plugged into a 5 volt PCI slot. It has PCIX slots but I can not experiment with those server systems. From my experiments, it appears that the SB0570 card does not work in PCIX slots. These are 3.3 volt PCI slots. The SB0570 does have the extra notch in the card-edge connector that suggest that the SB0570 is a uni'versal 3.3/5 volt PCI card and should work in a PCIX slot. I even installed Win XP pro on the DSBF-DE mainboard systen and it failed in the same way you have experienced. Talking with Asus Tech support, they said, according to their specifications,?that the SB0570 Audigy SE sound card is a PCI (5 volt) only card and will not work in a 3.3 volt PCIX slot. I searched the creative site for the specifications on the Audigy SE card and it does not say that it is a uni'versal 3.3/5 volt PCI card even though it will plug into a PCIX slot in your mainboard. I did find a European distributor that actually says it is a 3.3/5 volt? PCI interface. Since the Asus DSBV-D server board does not have a 5 volt PCI slot, we are at a standstill and may have to purchase a more expensi've PCIe sound card, most likely not Creative brand.

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Best Sound from Audigy 2 ZS

I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro and I want the best sound quality I can get from my Sound Card.
In the Creative Audio Console, I have a few questions on what changes I should make. For the Decoder, do I click "Use Built-in Decoder" or click "SPDIF Passthrough (Dolby Digital / D T S Digital Out). For Bit Accurate, do I check "Enable Bit Accurate Recording" because for S/PDIF-IN and CD Digital it says "Unkown or invalid signal". And for SPDIF I/O, for SPDIF Input Settings do I click "default", "Dolby Digital/DTS SPDIF-In decode" or "SPDIF Bypass". And for the finial thing, for Digital Output (PCM) Sampling Rate Settings, do I check "44. KhZ (Stereo Only), "48 Khz" or "96 KHz".
I really do not know what those things do and if it will make a big difference but I want to get the best sound quality out of my sound card. Also if there are any other 3rd party drivers or utlities that will boot my sound performance, please let me know. I am going to hold up on upgrading to the X-Fi until prices go down. Thanks.

>For the Decoder, do I click "Use Built-in Decoder" or click "SPDIF Passthrough"
That would depend on the quality of the external decoder and how the decoder (ie. surround amplifier) and the card are connected. Since the Audigy is crippled in the sense that many of its features are not available through its SPDIF output - because it can't encode multichannel digital audio and won't digitally play 96 KHz Audio DVD for legal reasons - most users will have an analog connection between card and hifi components (e.g. 5.). In that case, "use built-in decoder" is the option to use. However, your receiver should have a true analog path, ie. the 5. or whatever inputs should not be digitized and go trough another DSP in the receiver. Otherwise, sound quality would suffer a bit from too many analog-digital-analog conversions. If your surround amplifier digitizes analog sources - as cheap models tend to do - a fully digital path might improve sound quality. But you will then be limited by the poor design of the Audigy's digital section. For example, sound of games will only be available in stereo over an optical cable (Video DVDs are not affected, their signal is transported correctly). Everyting considered, you might want to have two connections: optical for Video DVD pass-through ("external decoder"), analog for games and DVD Audio disks. Btw, the analog outs of the card sound very good, in my opinion.
>(Dolby Digital / D T S Digital Out). For Bit Accurate, do I check "Enable Bit Accurate Recording" because for S/PDIF-IN and CD Digital it says "Unkown or invalid signal".
Forget bit-accuracy with Creative Audigy sounds cards, these cards resample anything to 48 khz (if the central processor on the card is used in any way, shape or form). For bit-accuracy, you should get a different card. If your source is a CD, don't read the CD through the sound card. Don't even connect CD dri've and sound card - to remove a source of noise - but let Windows record disks digitally over the IDE bus. DVB/DVD is 48 KHz (or?), so CDs should be the primary victim of resampling. If you encode a CD into MP3, encode to 48KHz, ie. let the encoder to the resampling.
>And for the finial thing, for Digital Output (PCM) Sampling Rate Settings, do I check "44. KhZ (Stereo Only), "48 Khz" or "96 KHz".
I would use 48 KHz because that's the cards working frequency.

NO SOUND FROM AUDIGY 2 ZS!!!

I recently got a brand new Audigy 2 ZS Platinum to replace my aging Audigy . I had to reinstall windows because the old audigy drivers didnt like the new audigy 2 zs drivers... Anyway, I reinstalled and installed the drivers and everything worked except... NO SOUND FROM MY 5. SPEAKERS!!! When I plug headphones into the front panel of my audigy 2 zs platinum i can hear it...
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OMG OMG OMG I LOVE YOU!!! ITS FIXED!!!!!!
I got myself SOOO worked up over it not working. At one point I was even going to buy a new speaker system!!! And then it turns out its something as obvious as that LOL!!! How embarrasing...
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I cant get any sound from my analog speakers, headphones, or optical connection. All signs in windows say the card is operating properly and has no conflicts. The card was working fine until I booted up my computer today and it said the creative drivers were no present when I tried to access the audio console. I cleaned off all the creative drivers in safe mode and reinstalled the drivers from the creative website. It appears to be functioning now on the surface, but I get no sound. Windows media player runs through mp3s but when I use Foobar 2000 the track loads but stops right before it should have sound output. (No error messages)Media Player classic will "play" tracks, but no output. Please assist.

Hi,
I am experiencing the exact same problem, and i have tried the suggestion of removing the card boot up, shut down and install the card again, but it is still quiet ??
Dxdiag seems to have the right info about the card but there is still no sound.
I did a revert to "last working configuration" and got it working again.
Now i have installed drivers according to the "Auto update" and now it is very quiet again.
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--Bengt

Popping sound from Audigy 2 Plati

I am receiving a lot of popping through the speakers. I also receive popping through my headphones hooked through either the front panel or the back of the sound card. I have recently installed a new video card, and everything was fine until then. The new video card is a Radeon 9800 Pro. I am running the current drivers for both my sound and my video card.
I tried all of the steps listed in the essential troubleshooting guide from the web site. I moved the card in the case to the bottom PCI slot, as far away from other hardware as possible. I made sure the wires were clean so there was no electrical interference. I disable "plug & play OS" in BIOS as well as the other suggestions such as AGP aperture size, etc. I disabled DMA writing for my dri'ves.
Nothing has worked. The sound is fine if I uninstall the Audigy card and re-enable thr onboard audio.
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Again, I have already tried the steps listed in the essential troubleshooting guide from the web site.
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I am having the same problem. I have an OEM Audigy 2 that came with my Dell Dimension 4600 PC. I just bought it in September 2004 It also has a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, just like above.
I get occasional pops in Halo. I use hardware accelerated sound and EAX enabled. In Tribes 2, I there aren't any pops, but there is another shrill, shrieking type sound that plays very loudly. It occurs randomly. It doesn't affect game, its not that frequent, but its very annoying none the less
My Specs
Dell Dimension 4600
CPU 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 800Mhz FSB
52MB dual channel DDR 400Mhz
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 28MB DDR
Audigy 2
Dell 5650 00 watt 5. Speakers
I have tried using several drivers, the ones from the Dell CD, the latest ones from this website.
I tried using these drivers http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=
They work pretty good, I didn't get any sound glitches, but they lack EAX support.
Long story short, I went back and forth between drivers testing them out and am currently just using the original OEM drivers from the CD, they work the best. There are slight annoyances with the updated drivers that I could deal with, but they don't fix the sound quality problems in my games.

Difference in sound from A2Z and DVD home equipment

Hi,
Does anybody tell how different in sound from Audigy 2ZS and home theater system. What i mean by this is the output system is the same (Home theater speakers, surround receiver). The only difference is signal source, either from sound Blaster A 2ZS or from home DVD player.
As far as i understand, the A 2ZS wont maximize its utilities if we select the SPDIF pass through and the signal will be sent directly to the external decoder. Am i correct to say this? and if so, the sound quality is totally subject to the external decoder and speakers systems. But i have read couple audiophile forums, it said that the sound varies according to CD/DVD player, how come we have this.
To conclude, any strenghs of A2ZS over home CD/DVD player interms of sound quality?
Appreciate if anybody could tell.

Well sound in this context is made up of 3 componemts: source, amp and speakers. The 3 things to watch are THD (total harmonic distortion), S/N (signal to noise ratio) and Frequency Responce.
For a good system you need <0.0% THD, S/N >20 Db and frequency responce at least as wide as 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.
There is a difference between listening to music, which is best in stereo, and home theatre, which is designed for spacial effects rather than reproducing high quality music.
To address your question directly it is not possible to answer because you wish to compare a disc player with what in this instance may be described as a switch/router.
In relation to sound between the Audigy 2 ZS and my home theatre system there is a world of difference even though they are interconnected. That may be because of a 25 fold difference in cost though.
Home theatre should include video switching as well, normally incorporated in the amp and called an AV amp. Spend money on a good one of these and you won;t go wrong. Look for 6 powered channels with a minimum power of 30 RMS per channel. In stereo mode the 2 channel amps should be class A. In 5. mode you will not get the above specs unless you are intent on spending serious money.
Hope this is helpful.

Audigy 2 plat- cannot get sound from headphone output, only from rear pa

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Inertia22 wrote:
I put in the Audigy 2 zs from my old PC into my new one and I cant get any sound from the Headphones or Mic.
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If you getting sound from the external speakers....are we talking the ones on the laptop?
Means you still have the onboard sound turned on at a guess.

SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum - no headphone sound from the front pan

Hi all,
I had replaced my old broken Asus Mobo with the same type. After all hardware was reconnected to the new mobo I have noticed the front pannel headphone output doesnt work.
I have connected the card and the panel with the proper cable, the pannel seems to be powered OK. I even connected the card and the panel with the internal firewire cable.
The only difference is I have this time installed the drivers from the Creative website, whilst I used the bundled CD with previous installation.
Would that prevent me from hearing the sound from the headphones?
Will appreciate your suggestions,
Greg
grzp at mp.pl


Hey Ridenthatide,
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I have the same problem as you. My system is MSI 865 PE motherboard and XP Pro SP3 with Audigy 2 ZS. I have reinstalled my system numerous times before and never had any problem, until this time....
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- Format HD, install win XP, install SP3. Install Audigy 2 ZS driver and application from CD. Sound works.
- Install card's latest driver downloaded from Creative. NO SOUND!
- Device Manager shows everything ok. But control panel -> 'sound and audio devices property' has the device volume bar grayed out. Looks like system doesn?t recognize the card somehow.
- Install the latest application (organizer and other stuff), to no avail.
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I tried to move the card to a different slot. After bootup, windows recognized new hardware installed, and started installing driver (I chose 'let windows auto search'). And sound came back. But if I re-install the latest driver again, the sound will go away.
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I don't think moving card to a different PCI slot is an legitimate way of solving the problem, and problem still exists after the move. This has been really frustrating.

Audigy 2 ZS Multi channel is not working , no sound from center sub rr rl sr sl ( only front channel is working )

I have windows 8.1 and Audigy 2 zs .
i can change speaker settings to 5.1 or 7.1 or anything i wanted but there is big problem
i can only hear sound from the front channel ( speaker )
if i click on the sub-woofer ( in speaker configure window to test the each channel ) i still hear the sound from front speaker !!!
i try a lot of thing to fix them and i fix it 1 time with change the system date to earlier time ( 2013 , 2014 )
but now i can't fix this problem !
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I installed new driver support pack from Daniel K and now my problem fixed , I really shame for creative to don't create new driver for its sound cards and a 1 person was created a driver better than creative company if I was in creative company I would hire Daniel K and give him a kiss !

Audigy 2 Platinum Ex -- no sound from external

I've got internal system sounds, but no sound from the external I/O box. I've got standard RCA cables from my stereo to input3 on the box. I know I've got a signal there, because I can hear it through my other soundcard still installed if I switch to it. I just transferred the Audigy 2 from my old PC to a new one. It worked fine on the old PC.
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I don't have the External I/O module, but as a troubleshooting step, do the analog jacks on the rear of the A2ZS card work?

Set up from creative down load does not detect any sound blaster audigy mess

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I have the same problem. About a year ago I threw out all my driver cd's because they were really piling up and i figured i'd never need them because I've been able to download all the driver's i've ever needed from company websites.
NOT SO with Creative.
I have the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum (the one with the ports for the front of the computer). I recently had to reinstall my OS. I got the soundcard to work, but all the optional components I had before (like the ability to use the remote control to control sound, and the EAX console etc) are gone. I tried to download these components from the website (it's really hard to tell which is which, so i downloaded them all). They will NOT install! I keep getting the error message "Setup did not detect required components, Setup will exit" on all the download software.
This is extremely frustrating because I'm unable to setup the speakers properly (windows speaker settings don't really work).
I did manage to do the automatic update thing, but it only updates the core drivers.
PLEASE HELP!
I paid $200 bucks for this card (granted, that was a couple years ago), so I should be able to at least download the same software that came with the product!
Please have a professional (not an engineer without user interface experience) design the download area too...it is extremely difficult to understand what the individual components really do! At the very least, when you download them...they should work!
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Audigy 2 ZS sound from USB headphones but none from speakers

<Audigy 2 ZS sound from USB headphones but none from speakersw Hello everyone. Lately my computer has been acting up a bit (HP xw6200 workstation) and I updated the graphics and sound drivers to fix the issues with crashing. I first tried to update the audio drivers from the Creative support website but when the installation was finished and the computer restarted there was no longer any sound and all of the volume controls stopped working (sliders, buttons, checkboxes, etc. turned gray). I tried a couple more times to uninstall, then reinstall the driver but it still didn't work. Finally I went to the HP support website and downloaded the audio driver from there and installed it. Now the volume controls work again and when I plug in my Logitech USB headset I can hear sound just fine but when they are unplugged and I try to use my desktop speakers there is no sound at all. I played around with the volume controls, made sure the device and output was correct, and plugged the green output cable to the speakers in all of the sockets I could find while playing a song on Windows Media but it still doesn't work. Anybody have an idea of what might be going on and how to fix it's

@? OK another update (sorry I know I'm posting a lot). I downloaded and installed a different driver from the Creative support site and I now finally have sound in my speakers again. BUT the original problem I was having came back. Whenever I play a game (lately it's been Warcraft III) that seems to have more advanced 3D sound (more than, say, a web video on YouTube) the screen will all of a sudden turn some really weird pattern, the sound will stop, and the entire computer freezes; I then have to manually shut down (with the power button), wait a few seconds, then reboot. I thought this was a graphics issue so I downloaded and installed the latest driver for my video card (nVidia Quadro FX) which didn't help. Now I think it might be a sound card issue (or maybe motherboard?) because this problem doesn't happen when I use my USB headphones to play games. Might my sound card be dying or "breaking" somehow?

Audigy 2 ZS no sound from analogue outputs

I have an Audigy 2 ZS with no sound from the analogue outputs, though i believe the digital out is working.
I have been told the card was flashed with alternative firmware.
i got this secondhand so i have no idea this is correct.
can i obtain the original firmware for this device?
i have tried many drivers / settings & no results.
any help would be appreciated.
John

Test with Ubuntu live disc and make sure the card output is used for output and not some HD audio on-board that takes over.
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Wow, so after testing it in linux and not working, i thought to myself definitely something in the connections.
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Go to EAX panel and uncheck all effects. Now you should get 20% volume on the sub.
Go buy an ARTcessories HEADAMP, like I did, and?some cables/adapters from a Hosa distributor to boost your ctr/sub 3.5mm output of the 2zs.
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