Wont Boot into windows XP after I install the Audigy 2 ZS driv

I just built a new system - it is a Athlon 64 3500 on a Gigabyte Board with gig of corsair ram. The built in drivers for the on-board sound work fine but as soon as I put in my Audigy board I can only access is till I reboot - then the system hangs at the welcome screen and I lose my mouse. I tried moving it to another PCI slot and disabling the onboard sound and drivers all to no avail. I downloaded the latest driver but the problem persists. Anyone got any good Ideas? My onboard sound is less than stellar.
PS - I am using an old ver of XP (will take a couple of days to download my service pack 2 on my snail connection.)
Thanks in advance.

I'm having almost the same problem except system hangs after resuming from standby (S3), however bootup and restart acts normally. Keyboard non responsi've to compter and mouse icon dissapears.
move the card through most of my pci slots, reloaded xp, sp2, all system drivers etc.
problem only occurs with Audigy2 ZS inserted in system.
running following hardware:
Asus k8v se Deluxe mobo
GB corsair mem
ATI X800 Pro 2m6 mb mem
2 Seagate Sata dri'ves running in Performance mode (stripe not mirror, don't remember which is which)
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (Was running Gamer LE, which is same card, but decided i wanted i/o dri've)
Logitech MX700 duo.
I've done most of the logical things, and am really stuck. need standby and resume so that system maintenance tasks such as defrag, antivirus and so forth, can run in the wee hours of the morning w/out me being there, and puter shuts down when done to save on electric bill.
Message Edited by seadragon009 on 0-09-2005 2:54 AM

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    Contact to Mushkin for more details.
    "I guess installing the driver from the MSI website is the best thing to do right now"
    Yep 
    "Everything is stable now.."
    nice :smiley:

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