Uninstalling SB Audigy

Hiya Folks,?Ok...my o/s is XP Media Centre 2005 and I just recently had tremendous difficulties with my SB Audigy 2ZS sound card. I have removed the soundcard from my tower and was in the process of removing the residual software via Add/Remove Programs and I get the following message:?"An installation support file could not be installed. The system cannot find the file specified."?Can anyone please tell me where I can get the file specified? (I have my installation & application cd....can I take it off there? or do I just reload it's )? I would appreciate your help with this. Terminally Blonde (for a reason)?

TermBlonde,
It's puzzling that there's any need to install a file if you're uninstalling software. But anyway, first, I'd put the card back in your PC and then try uninstalling the CL software.
TermBlonde wrote:
no
Message Edited by Katman on 0-2-2007:02 AM

Similar Messages

Audigy 2 Value, hap17v2k.sys, and the B

Hello. I would like to state that if this is not the place for this question please feel free to remove it, I just figured this would be the first forum I tried for this question.
So here it is: I own a SB Audigy 2 card, and I'm trying to play this game: http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html - only when I load it, it causes my computer to crash.
Now for the long version:
I used to have an SB Audigy Gamer sound card, until I moved it into another computer and upgraded to this SB Audigy 2 Value card. I've played this game (which was built on DirectX 5, btw) with the old card and had no problems at all - though that was before I reformatted, so other settings and files may have changed. I can play other games fine - Final Fantasy 7 (uses DirectX 7), and even the newest stuff (Half-Life 2 - uses DirectX 9). This is the only game which does it.
Exactly what happens is this; when the game first loads, there is no sound (the way the game is designed). Once the title screen comes up, where there is sound, a second or two later my computer crashes with the following error, and an annoying clicking or screeching sound loop playing over the speakers (as you would normally hear if sound was playing when the computer crashes);
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Stop: 0x000000D (0x0000000, 0x00000007, 0x00000000, 0xB7C89B)
hap7v2k.sys - Address B7C89B base at B7C6A000, Datestamp 4095DD7F
Well that's some of it anyway. I'm fairly certain it's due to the sound card because (a) in the properties for that .sys file it has Creative as the manufacturer, and (b), the game comes with a seperate program for listening to the music files - running this program is fine, but as soon as you try to listen to the music - it crashes... same error.
Here's what I've done so far:
- Re-downloaded and reinstalled the game
- Uninstalled and reinstalled the sound card
- Uninstalled all PCI cards except for the sound card, and reinstalled the sound card
- Verified that Windows, all my drivers, and BIOS are up to date (including the audigy drivers)
- Verified that the sound card is not sharing an IRQ, or any other types of resources
- Tried the game with various Windows XP compatibility settings (Win95, etc.), reinstalled DirectX, messed with the sound card's hardware acceleration (all the way off and all the way on).
I think that covers it all - also I do have an open discussion with Creative's support, trying something new every day now but I'm hoping someone here can help even a little bit.
I've run all the dxdiag tests and they've all passed, but here is the output if it's any help; http://www.eaglemaint.com/link/DxDiag.txt
Lastly, my system specs at a glance:
Asus A7M266-D motherboard, Socket A chipset
Two .53 GHz AMD MP 800+ processors
256 MB nVidia GeForce 6800 GT
.5 GB PC200 DDR
250GB and 30GB HDDs
Two 52x CD-RWs
4-port Asus USB PCI card
3 Linksys 0/00 Ethernet PCI cards
550 Watt Antec PSU
I think that's all the important stuff. I've done searches here in these forums, on google (only a handful of sites even mention that .sys file, so I can't find any information on it), and in creative and microsoft's support websites. If you have any ideas at all on what might be wrong or what I could try to fix it, please let me know. My AIM name is "The Eagle Maint" if you'd prefer that, or my email is [email protected].
Thanks ahead of time for any help anyone may be able to give, and let me know if there is anything else I can provide... I'm sure I'm missing something.
-Mathew Tate

I'm not sure if the drivers are compatible between the two cards.
Recently when I uninstalled the audigy 2 and put in my old audigy card, I didn't remove the drivers first - upon restarting, the computer recognized my audigy with the audigy 2's drivers. It seemed to work ok, but I installed the normal audigy drivers anyway.
The catch is, well - the reason I really contacted support in the first place - when I had my audigy 2 card installed (with the audigy 2 drivers from the CD) I couldn't install the driver updates for my audigy 2 from the creative website. Basically, the online auto-update feature wasn't working, and when I manually downloaded the programs and ran them, they said that I didn't have an audigy 2 card installed. I got that resolved with support after they suggested that I download the audigy 2 'value' drivers - I had been trying to get the regular audigy 2 drivers (not value) before that... so basically, I think the audigy 2 can only take the drivers that I have installed now.
I suppose it is just some kind of incompatability, it just kind of baffles me because it used to work fine on my old audigy, and you said you've tried it with your audigy 2 and have no problem... computers can be such a pain.
Anyway, thanks for the help, I guess I should just be thankful everything else works ok.Message Edited by The_Eagle_Maint on 07-05-2005 04:25 AM

BSOD Bug Discovered in Audigy 2 ZS Dri

I have an Audigy 2 ZS. I did a custom install from the driver CD in XP SP unchecking the following items:
- Creative MiniDisc Center
- Creative Wave Studio
- Getting Started Demo
- MIDI Samples
- SoundFont Banks
- Online Manual
- Music Creation Guide
- Windows Drivers
I also did not install Creative Media Source 2.
Next, I installed the Driver Package from the soundblaster.com web site that is dated July 29 2004. Then I installed the Creative THX Setup Console Update (Version .00.6).
I have found that several of the Creative Labs programs will cause an instant and repeatable BSOD on my system. They are:
- \Program Files\Creative\SBAudigy2ZS\Program\Startup Menu\Audigy.exe
- Creative MediaSource DVD-Audio Player
- Feature Showcase Demo as installed from the "Feature Showcase Demonstration CD"
I'd say there is a bug somewhere in the kernel mode driver code because ideally you do not want user mode code to be able to take down the system like this.
I ran the crash dump through WinDbg and this is the result of the analysis:
KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (8e)
This is a very common bugcheck. Usually the exception address pinpoints the driver/function that caused the problem. Always note this address as well as the link date of the driver/image that contains this address. Some common problems are exception code 0x80000003. This means a hard coded breakpoint or assertion was hit, but this system was booted /NODEBUG. This is not supposed to happen as developers should never have hardcoded breakpoints in retail code, but ... If this happens, make sure a debugger gets connected, and the system is booted /DEBUG. This will let us see why this breakpoint is happening. An exception code of 0x80000002 (STATUS_DATATYPE_MISALIGNMENT) indicates that an unaligned data reference was encountered. The trap frame will supply additional information.
Arguments:
Arg: 80000003, The exception code that was not handled
Arg2: 8050b20, The address that the exception occurred at
Arg3: f3722330, Trap Frame
Arg4: 00000000
Debugging Details:
EXCEPTION_CODE: (HRESULT) 0x80000003 (24748365) - One or more arguments are invalid
FAULTING_IP:
nt!DbgBreakPoint+0
8050b20 cc int 3
TRAP_FRAME: f3722330 -- (.trap fffffffff3722330)
ErrCode = 00000000
eax=0000000 ebx=00000cb ecx=804ff7d8 edx=0000004 esi=e608000
edi=82ef7050
eip=8050b2 esp=f37223a4 ebp=f37223d4 iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz na pe nc
cs=0008 ss=000 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000
efl=00000282
nt!DbgBreakPoint+0x:
8050b2 c3 ret
Resetting default scope
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x8E
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 8053ebc0 to 8050b2
STACK_TEXT:
f37223a0 8053ebc0 e608e58 00000e50 e30d2df4 nt!DbgBreakPoint+0x
f37223d4 8053e7fb e608008 00000000 f3577b8b nt!ExFreePoolWithTag+0x305
f37223e0 f3577b8b e608008 00000000 e60800c nt!ExFreePool+0xb
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
f3722420 f35709de c000000 00000000 3fffffff ctdvda2k+0x22b8b
f37224b8 f3576f5d f3722428 f356cd2c c000000 ctdvda2k+0xb9de
f3722524 f35587 f355ab28 f355ab65 f355aba8 ctdvda2k+0x2f5d
f3722540 f3555640 00000000 83064f68 00000000 ctdvda2k+0x37
f3722574 f35559da fe3e8030 f372264c fe3e8030 ctdvda2k+0x640
f37225bc bac60b8a 00f0ff 408d0008 00000000 ctdvda2k+0x9da
f37225e8 bac60a67 408d0008 fe3e8030 00000000 ctoss2k+0x9b8a
f372263c bac6063c f372265c 00000000 00000000 ctoss2k+0x9a67
f3722b68 bacd5f20 82dba008 0000408d 00000002 ctoss2k+0x963c
f3722b94 bacd4729 82e6c60 82dba00c 82dc220 ctaud2k+0xf20
f3722bd8 f89b7f02 82e30888 82dc220 82dc220 ctaud2k+0x0729
f3722c0 804ecd5a 82e44f00 82dc220 806cba8 ctprxy2k+0xf02
f3722c20 80649 fe209820 806cb90 83238f68 nt!IopfCallDriver+0x3
f3722c44 8058c958 83238fd8 fe529038 83238f68 nt!IovCallDriver+0x9e
f3722c58 8058d544 82e44f00 83238f68 fe529038 nt!IopSynchronousServiceTail+0x5e
f3722d00 8059a55 0000098 00000000 00000000 nt!IopXxxControlFile+0x5ec
f3722d34 804dadd 0000098 00000000 00000000 nt!NtDeviceIoControlFile+0x28
f3722d34 7ffe0304 0000098 00000000 00000000 nt!KiSystemService+0xc4
002dfc 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 SharedUserData!SystemCallStub+0x4
FOLLOWUP_IP:
nt!ExFreePool+b
8053e7fb c20400 ret 0x4
SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 2
FOLLOWUP_NAME: Pool_corruption
SYMBOL_NAME: nt!ExFreePool+b
MODULE_NAME: Pool_Corruption
IMAGE_NAME: Pool_Corruption
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0
STACK_COMMAND: .trap fffffffff3722330 ; kb
BUCKET_ID: 0x8E_nt!ExFreePool+b
Followup: Pool_corruption

Hello,
at first I?m sorry for digging up this old Threat but after having searched for some time in the forum I found out that in this Thread another user has already perfectly described my problem.
Unfortunately he hasn?t left any explanation about how he was able to fix this error so I would be very grateful if anyone could help me. (perhaps even one of the mods who remembers anything about this problem?)
So far I have already tried to repair or uninstall the Audigy Software and Drivers but every time I tried the same Blue Screen has appeared.
I?ve also contacted the Creative Support about this "bug" but they only had the proposal of reinstalling the entire software which I had already tried without any success.
It seems somehow strange to me because for example the DVD-Audio Player had already been working perfectly on my system when I had tried out the Creative Software after I had purchased and installed the new Soundcard.
So far no new Hard- or Software has been installed on my system in the meantime. I just have updated the programs I had already installed before the error occured the first time.
Could there be perhaps any conflicts with newer driver versions for my TV- or Soundcard or any updated software (for example Kaspersky Anti-Virus)?
Anyway... thank you very much for your help! ;-)
Greetings
celer
System:
Windows XP Home SP2
AMD 64 3200
024 MB RAM
GForce 6800GT
2X 200 Gigs HD (SATA) (no Raid-System)
Audigy 2 ZS (no newer Drivers found when checked on the Creative Homepage)
WinTV PCI FM
Mainboard: D 607 v. 4.06 . (Fujitsu-Siemens OEM)
I?ve already installed the latest drivers.

My Creative Audigy Software Experience, Chapte

It was a dark and stormy night. After fighting for days trying to get my speaker calibration software to fart out a sound, ANY sound, I decided to uninstall my Audigy software and drivers and start over.
. Found a Creative program on my harddri've that lets you uninstall/install various Audigy 2 programs. Cool! This program had that "Microsoft Windows Add Components" interface of "Add/remove software" with only a single checkbox. SOOOO.....if I leave it blank does it uninstall it's Jesus. Anyway, halfway through the uninstall, my PC rebooted itself. It has never done this before, being a solid system of 3 years. Oh no.
2. Tried to play music after rebooting. "No sound drivers", Windows said. Fine. Let's install them.
3. Found where I stored my drivers and clicked on the exe that installs drivers. Great! reboot. play music. "Bad drivers!" Smacks head, oh yeah, must start driver install with original CD. Uninstall mess I just installed (I hope). Reboot.
4. Found CD (miracle). Put it in. "Cannot find Audigy hardware". I see it. It's in my PC. The Audigy 2 registration program runs just fine, however.
5. Found a file (CTZAPXX.exe) on the CD that will "install/uninstall drivers". Now we are getting somewhere! Uninstall drivers. reboot.
6. Ran same program (CTZAPXX.exe) . Click on "install drivers". Something happens. Reboot.
7. Play a MP3. No sound. No error message.
8. Click on the EXE update mentioned in step 3 above. reboot.
9. Windows is unable to boot due to a "severe problem", or something to that effect. "Should I try to reboot?", Windows asks? "Well, of course", I say. Oh oh, I am stuck in a loop. Safe mode is my only option. Had to leave this steaming pile to come to work, so I can make money, so I can perhaps purchase another vendor's soundcard if this fiasco continues.
Chapter 2 coming tonight after work.

You can download the installation CD for many SB cards from here. Maybe your card is listed.

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.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Again, I have already tried the steps listed in the essential troubleshooting guide from the web site.
Thanks,
Elader

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.

Audigy 2 ZS: Very little rear speaker so

I have Audigy 2 ZS soundcard, Logitech X-530 speakers, on Windows Vista 32 bit. I can't seem to get much sound out of the rear speakers. If I turn the CMSS slider all the way to the left (rear) it basically turns the sound off. There is a very little sound coming from the rear speakers, so I know they're hooked up.
I saw something about speaker calibrator--is there something I can use for that? I'm guessing that Creative doesn't provide speaker calibrator on Vista? Is there some way I can calibrate my speakers, or is it possible there is something else wrong?
Thank you!

Difficult question, huh? If you have any ideas for what causes this problem please help. I think that uninstalling & reinstalling Audigy's drivers is not a solution!

Audigy 2 ZS crashes my comp

Here is the scoop, I bought and Audigy 2 Value and thing popped and cracked all the time so I took it back and paid the extra cash to go ZS. First of all I uninstalled the Audigy 2 Value software before I put in the Audigy 2 ZS. So I install the Audigy 2 ZS drivers from the CD and do the auto upade from the creative website and think I am all ready to go. Now I crash in windows all the time, it seems to be tottaly random. I took the card out and my system is stable, no problems what so ever. So I get driver cleaner and boot into safe mode and clean out all the creative drivers and put the Audigy 2 ZS in another PCI slot and reloaded and updated the drivers and still get the same problem. After my computer reboots I get an eroor msg that says a hardware device failed, when my comp reboots if I am listening to music it loops a second or so of sound a couple times before reboot. I have done everything I need to do in the BIOS, I know it is not a power issue and the wierd thing is that I can play games with EAX on and the sound quality on high for hours and my computer will not crash, it seems to only happen when I am in the OS so I have come to the conclusion that the card is fine there is just some sort of driver issure or something going on. Does anyone have any suggestions or have/had this problem?
Thanks.
BTW both my Audigy and 2 Value had no problems in my computer what so ever.Message Edited by Mott on 0-24-2005 2:4 AM

Um just a real quick assessment for ya read through this, i just posted it for this guy. There may be something in here that could help while you wait for some else to give you full system cheak list and/or trouble shooting guide.
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...essage.id=3488

Audigy 2NX USB Root Hub Prob

Hopefully someone here will have some suggestions to help resolve my issue.
I have fi've USB Root Hubs on my computer; the USB system is 2.0
Only two of those hubs are in use. One hosts my Canon scanner.
The other hosts every other USB device on my system.
That in itself is an issue, but because not all of my USB devices are in use simultaneously, it hasn't previously been an issue.
Now, however, it has become one.
Both my Audigy 2NX and a four-port self-powered USB 2.0 hub are on one USB Root Hub. The four port hub has my two printers connected to it.
The issue is that when I use my laserjet printer, it disables the Audigy 2NX. The Audigy normally comes back up after the printer has gone back into sleep mode.
However, if I am playing a game when the printer is used (I share it on a wireless home network) it disables the Audigy and it can only be brought back up by restarting the computer.
I think it is one of two issues;
. The four port hub with the printers on it cannot share a root hub with the Audigy 2NX; when the laserjet comes out of sleep mode, it uses all of the bandwidth on that root hub and disconnects the Audigy.
2. A recent driver update to the Audigy is conflicting somehow with the printer.
I might also be tempted to think it was a power supply issue if I didn't have a robust 650 watt PSU on my system.
To try to get the two devices on separate root hubs, I turned off my computer and disconnected all of my USB devices. Then I connected one at a time, powering down in between connections.
The device assignment remained the same.
My next step is to uninstall the Audigy 2NX completely from my system, and then re-install from the base drivers.
My question is; does anyone know how to force devices to install to a specific and/or different root hub outside of their physical connection? An .ini edit or perhaps a driver edit's
Thanks in advance for any help.

I have an Audigy 2 NX myself, and I found it works best off of a direct root usb port (not off a hub). The problem is that on most computers 2 USB ports share hub. Which is why you are having that comflict.
My conflict doesn't happen there, it was on the mouse at first, now it's on an external IDE Adapter i'm using.
All I do is unplug the IDE adaptor when it stops working, waiting a few seconds, then plugging it back in.
So what I suggest is to do like I did, and switch what ports things are plugged into until it's something that can plug & unplug with no real issues.
Why this happens, in opinion, is that there just isn't enough power getting to all the usb ports when there's alot of stuff plugged into them. My limit seems to be 7 items, even though most of them are lower power stuff, mouse, joysticks. I do have a 3.5" hd in a case, which is self powered, and the ide adaptor which is self powered, and the audigy 2 nx, which is, as you know, self powered. I can plug another item in, but anymore after that will knock my ide adaptor. and i still have usb ports i'm not even using. oh, the joysticks are on a hub which is where I usually plug another item in, either my mp3 player or thumbdri've.
I think it most likely an electric problem, and that it only affects people with faulty usb componets or something. I haven't heard of it being widespread or specific chipset/usb controller problem. Can't think of anything else it could be, but i'm not an electrition.
Sorry i could be of much help, but maybe you can at least make it less of a bother to deal with.
good luck

Audigy Platinum eX External Bay is not work

So I posted a few days ago with this same problem. My external bay is not working, and not even getting power. I uninstalled my Audigy, removed the card and put it in a different PCI slot. Then I reinstalled it. I also unplugged all cables and then put them back in to make sure they are well attached. Still I have problems, and the external bay is useless and unpowered. Anyone have any ideas?

LoopyG,
If you have done all of these steps and you are still not getting any power from the dri've bay then you will probably want to contact Technical Support to arrange repairs. Their contact page is: http://us.creative.com/support/custsup.
Jeremy

Audigy2 WDM Uninstall or Microphone in Cubase

Well now - the probem is in 2 things - first i installed the beta drivers - they maked a WDM version of driver - with that version - i cannot sing in my microphone when using cubase sx in minimized mode either "release asio driver in background" is checked or not .
2. Second problem that i want my card cd supplied old drivers back - that are not WDM . BUT I CANT UNINSTALL THAT Audigy Audio Processor WDM from my system .i tried a lot . i deleted alll files which were linked with the device from my system32 folder ? with Reg cool i had searched and deleted all lines which were containing "creative ,audigy , audio processor , emu0kx , wdminf)
SO now / i turn my comp on - and see - AlliLuyya! - Audigy audio Processor WDM driver found .
Help me please to get rid of it .or say something about that problem with microphone.
sorry for my English , im from Russia.

grand-funk wrote:
Well now - the probem is in 2 things - first i installed the beta drivers - they maked a WDM version of driver - with that version - i cannot sing in my microphone when using cubase sx in minimized mode either "release asio driver in background" is checked or not . 2. Second problem that i want my card cd supplied old drivers back - that are not WDM . BUT I CANT UNINSTALL THAT Audigy Audio Processor WDM from my system .i tried a lot . i deleted alll files which were linked with the device from my system32 folder ? with Reg cool i had searched and deleted all lines which were containing "creative ,audigy , audio processor , emu0kx , wdminf) SO now / i turn my comp on - and see - AlliLuyya! - Audigy audio Processor WDM driver found . Help me please to get rid of it .or say something about that problem with microphone. sorry for my English , im from Russia.
WDM (and ASIO) driver is allways installed by the Creative driver installer. You may end up to some troubles by 'trying to remove'/'removing' it (eg. WDM drivers) from the system. WDM driver present has normally no affect in software like Cubase SX.
Are you sure you understand what 'are you doing' / 'you need to do' to get Cubase working with your card/drivers? Just install your old/previous drivers using ctzapxx.exe (search this file from installation package). You can remove the present drivers before reinstallation process if old setup does not install over the newer ones.
BTW: Cubase SX/Audigy2 works best with Creative ASIO drivers. So, why not use them?
jutapa

Audigy 1, it works!

It works with my K8T perfectly!
This is how did it. Also I do use a Dutch version of windows so I have to secondguess how
things are named in the English version. So if the naming strikes you as a bit odd then use
you're brain and imagination, that's what it's there for!
First, get all the latest drivers from here:
http://nl.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/eula.asp?id=7080
The patch for those drivers here:
http://nl.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/eula.asp?id=7643
And the newdrivers for the software that goes along with it all here:
http://nl.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/product.asp?bypass=1&category=2&os=10&driverla
ng=2&prod=226&drivertype=3
Don't worry that all the files are in Dutch, you can use the filenumbers to get the drivers
in your language as well!
You have to unzip these files with winrar, winzip or alike to new seperate and correctly
named folders. I know the files declare themselves as being self installing but they won't
function properly, just trust me on this.
If you don't you can try and find out for yourself that they won't.
Second, you have to remove the old drivers from the computers devicemanager.
Look in the device manager-->sound, video and games-->creative tab, right click on creative
and select undo install (or similar).
Also run the ctzapxx.exe that's in the windows Program files / Creative folder.
If you can't find it, use search or use the original install cd that came with your Audigy.
If you DO NOT do this you will later after reboot run into blue screens and end up in save
mode. Eventually you will have to physically uninstall the Audigy card itself from your
computer.
Third, reboot your computer.
Windows will automatically detect the new hardware (audigy) and install it, abort this
process. Then go to the new hardware wizard and point it to the audigy soundcard, then point
it to the new EAX 4 folder through to the drivers/WMD subfolders.
Install these drivers and reboot. As it turns out, windows will have installed the WRONG
drivers at this point. You can check this by going to your configurationscreen, opt to
audiodevices and probably see Emu 10Kx stated as the standard device. You can correct this
as follows. Go back to the device manager ---> Creative tab and right click and select
update driver. You now will see the update wizard in your screen. Check the I will decide
(advanced) tab, click ok to go futher. Check Don't search, I will....tab and click next. In
this window click on the latest driver and click next. The driver will be installed
correctly now. You restart first and then go back to the audio device window. It now will
state Audigy Audio, if you don't see it you can access it through the drop down window and
then select it as the default. Now you have to install the patch. You have to do this with
the device manager --> creative tab--> update driver. Point the wizard to the patch's
drivers/WMD folder and install drivers. Restart the computer. Go back to the device manager
---> Creative tab and right click and select update driver. You now will see the update
wizard in your screen. Check the I will decide (advanced) tab, click ok to go futher. Check
Don't search, I will....tab and click next. In this window click on the latest driver
(5.12.1.443)and click next. Check also if the Audigy is still the default, it should be the
default still.
Fourth, the rest of the software can be installed from the seperate folders using the setup
exe's in their setup folders. If you have uninstalled your old PlayCenter software also you
likely have to reinstall it again in order to install the new one over it.
When you do this, the old drivers will be erased and replaced with the new ones during the
installation procedure.
This is how it works for me, it's not a work around but a solution. Your EAX program runs
again and you default device will be the Audigy itself unlike in the workarounds suggested
by others.
Good luck,
P.S. There are also 64-bit drivers released for the more daring among us!

Quote
Originally posted by SAB
sleepyhead....I managed to install the Dutch drivers for my Audigy XGamer soundcard, and.................................... .....THEY WORK - yippee kay ay....
Now I can listen to The Doors like they were meant to be listened to! One question though, what if they start singin' Dutch-like?
What, like this?
Kom op baby licht mijn brand...

Driver Conflict!!! NVIDIA nForce3 System Driver & SB Audigy ZS Driv

There is a driver conflict if you have both these drivers installed. I have an MSI K8N Neo2 mobo that requires the NVIDIA nForce3 System Drivers to run a RAID array. Once I have both drivers installed (doesn't matter which order they were installed) there would be a conflict with "nvraidservice.exe" and an error message would appear at Windows startup. However, if I uninstall the Audigy drivers, everything is fine and dandy...except now, I won't be able to use the sound card. Please contact NVIDIA for a fix to this conflict. Is there anything I can do for now?
Thanks,
Jeff

I have spent quite a while trying to fathom this one out. Revised drivers may solve the problem but in the interim I found my own solution. This may not work for everyone, but the error messages have now gone for good. In short, I noticed that the order of loading the various processes on bootup is important, and the problem occurs when nvraidservice.exe loads too late. I found a number of shareware programmes that allow you to mess with the order of loading, but in the end the solution was even simpler. By chance, I noticed that I had been clicking on my user profile before the computer had finished loading all the processes. By letting the computer completely finish what it needed to do before going to my user profile (in windows xp), the problem disappears.
As I said, this may not work for everyone, but it has 00% solved it for me.

Audigy 2 ZS Installation H

System Spec
P4 2.8GHz
768MB RAM
XP Pro SP2
Asus P4S8X-X Motherboard (6 pci slots)
AC97 OnBoard Sound (disabled in BIOS)
Have inserted the card into all pci slots, each time the machine has been restarted & installation process started. Each time, the software cannot seen that the card has been installed, but windows can see it. I cannot install the drivers manually. I have downloaded the latest drivers from the soundblaster website, and retryed the installation process.
The PC has had this sound card working fine, until I did a reformat & re-installed XP pro.
Can anybody tell me if there is a solution to this problem.
Please help!!!!!

Boot to safe mode, then uninstall all Audigy software and uninstall the Audigy Drivers in Device manager. Shut down the computer, remove the Audigy and reboot to clear all drivers. Shut down again and install the Audigy and boot, when the "found new hardware" message comes up, cancel it and don't allow automaticv installation. Insert your Audigy CD, find the "Drivers" folder, open it and find the "CTZAPXX.exe" or "SETUP.exe" file that has the red triangle with a blue base. Click in it, choose driver installation and click the box beside "Overwrite existing shared Creative audio driver files", then click "OK". It will probably ask you if you really want to overwrite the shared files, click Yes or Ok, and wait for the drivers to load, it will probably take several minutes. Reboot when prompted and you should be good to go. You can then install whatever programs you want from the disk, then go to the website and update. That should do it.

I can't hear the dialouge in fe

I upgraded today from an integrated realtek soundcard to the x-fi gamer. Amazing card I can't believe how great it sounds on my head phones. Anyway whenever anyone talks in fear cut scenes/in game radio/anything I can see them talking but I don't hear anything. I have the in game audio turned up all the way and I've tried turning up my headphone volume up all the way and it doesn't work either. I've also tried turning off all of the other sound except for voices and I still can't hear it even when I turn it off. I was really looking forward to playing fear with all of the nifty 3d audio this card has can anyone help me? I've also updated the driver to the most current version.
My specs are:
Windows XP SP2
8600gt gpu
gb ram

Out of interest, what codec was needed?
I have just tried to play 3 of my games - Medieval II, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and F.E.A.R. All have no sound... well there are a few feint sounds, but not what it used to have. Even the bootup screens like NVIDIA, Ubisoft etc. don't have sound.
Windows has all its normal sounds and some games are unaffected.
I uninstalled the Audigy 2 ZS and reinstalled, nothing's helped there. Device manager reports no problems, dxdiag reports no problems. Obviously the card's working, but there's some other driver/codec issue/conflict.
Cheers,
Nick

A730 keyboard and mouse compatibility with other machines

I would like to have a USB keyboard mouse with the machine. Unfortunately there is not an option for that with this machine. I would like to sell the k/m that comes with the machine.
What machines including ones not made my Lenovo would the k/m be compatible with?
According to the Lenovo support page for the drivers for this k/m the drivers are compatable with various Lenovo machines.
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031648
Does that mean the k/m are compatable with those machines?
Is a certain piece of hardware other than the k/b required for it to work? If so, is that piece of hardware available after market?
Machine Type: M90z AIO ; Product: 3091CTO (Custom), CPU: i5-650, Video Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics, Memory: 4.00 GB,
Network Card: Intel(R) WiFi Link 1000 BGN, OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

Thank you Assaf for taking the time to install the game to check to see if you got a similar problem
honestly i'm not sure its my 865PE Neo2 LS or not,it may be a software issue. I'm just guessing because that was a the biggest change in my system before I started to experiance this problem.
I have experianced this problem with the default windows drivers as well as with logitechs current Mouseware drivers, although i have not tried to install older mouseware drivers
I've had lockups with CoreCell installed as well as removed.In DirectX 8.1 as well as DirectX 9
I thought perhaps it might have been my soundcard because prior to buying that I didnt have any problems...so I removed that...but i still got the same problem (although as i type this i realize i didnt uninstall the Audigy software before i tested....hhmmm. I'll have to test that)
I have noticed it happens more often in OSP/Quake3 (a competition mod) than in plain vanilla Quake3, but it does happen in both.
One intersting thing i discovered by trying out a Belkin KB with my set up was that when i hit a certain combination of keys it would exec a chat bind i had bound to a whole other key ?!?
the combination was r + g + spacebar = keypad home
That particular problem stopped once I went back to original Keyboard. It did stick in my mind however that when playing Q3 i am hitting combinations of keys all the time and that maybe I'm hitting a combination that is problematic for my system. I have not been able to figure out what that combintion is yet (I tried for quite a while ...but was unable to find the correct combination to reproduce the problem )

Uninstalling SB Audigy

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for