audigy stops pc from booting ? help!

[Majin]

Freind of mine just bought an audigy 1 soundcard , windows detects it and begins to use it but if you reboot the machione will not boot , take the card out it boots fine put it back in same thing one use and no booting. Any help ?

 

[RazerBack]

For my ASUS mobo they recommend PCI slot 3 (start from the AGP side), but it's plugged into slot 5 currently.

Need more info MOBO, OS, stuff like that.

 

[Majin]

its a compaq presario 750 mhz duron processor 192 megs ram windows xp home

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Does the onboard sound need to be disabled?

 

[Majin]

onboard sound is disabled in the bios and disabled in the windows hardware profile.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

You could try installing it, boot up then go & get the latest driver for it, install & see what gives.

 

[Majin]

as i said before the machine quits booting all together after installing it .

 

[Hipster Doofus]

But you can do it for one boot right. Get the driver & install before rebooting again. If that does not work it might be a faulty card.

 

[homerhassall]

Had the same problem when i bought an Audigy card. Ended up taking it back for refund after changing the drivers and just about everything I could think of. Was said on various newgroups that there are some compatability problems with this card and I just couldn't be doing with it so I'm back with my 'live value' card.

 

[Majin]

thanks i was starting to think i had lost my mind , working and then killing the system . Still i wish i could find some kind of workaround .