Sys Lockup - SB Audigy 2 ZS on Asus K8V SE De

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After many days of searching the CREATIVE and ASUS forum's and KnowledgeBase's I could find no specific solution to help solve my problem. Ieventually worked things out myself and I'm posting it here in the hope thatit will help somebody out there with the same problem that I had. Problem:Installed Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS on my Asus K8VSE Delux MoBo and the system was locking up during system post. Tried 2 different PCI slots without success. Consequently BIOS was not accessible and the system would not boot without removing the Sound Blaster.Solution:On booting (without the SoundBlaster on the MoBo) and checking SystemInformation I could see that IRQ 5 was allocated to my WLAN Card. Myresearch had indicated that IRQ 5 is commonly reserved for Sound Cards. Itherefore decided to disable the WLAN card via device manager and rebootedto find that IRQ 5 had been released. I shut down the system and removed the WLAN card and replaced it with the SBAudigy. On reboot there was no lock up and the installation went accordingto plan. System Information showed that IRQ5 had been allocated to theSoundBlaster. I then put the WLAN card back into another PCI slot and re-installed it.Another check of System Information showed that the WLAN Card had once againbeen allocated IRQ 5 however this was no longer causing a problem.Conclusion:It would appear that the MoBo was reluctant to release the IRQ(s) requiredby the Soundblaster. Whether or not the WLAN card was involved in this isunknown. Whether or not IRQ 5 was the sole problem is unknown. Somebodywith more technical knowledge may be able to shed more light on this issue.Whats important is that the card is now installed and fully functional. Ihope this is a fix for your problem.

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well that worked for PFmodNT.sys, but then PFdet or what ever it was is showing the same error.
Frustrated I formatted again, this time I installed XP pro SP, updated all criticals UP TO SP2, updated Mobo Drivers, updated DirextX to 9.0c, updated to catalyst 4.0, installed the drivers for my audigy2 zs Platinum off the install CD. All seems to be working fine with the exception of a DCOM error with Netman now whenever I restart.. Had this error before, but it doesn't seem to be causing any instability, so I can li've with it for now.
Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: DCOMEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 0005Date: 0/25/2004Time: 2:5:0 AMDescription: DCOM got error "The service database is locked. " attempting to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server:{BA26AE5-266-D-BD0-00805FC270E}
My conclusion ---> not going to use your "latest" Drivers with SP2 util the next driver release, and hopefully by then Creative and Microsoft can get these quirks worked out.
If you have any info on how to resolve this Netman DCOM error, please share, otherwise consider this topic closed.
Thanks,
Dwayne Mills.