Go into the BIOS, disable onboard sound, plug the card in, Windows (XP) finds it, install drivers for it. (No intervention on my part. As this is an OLD card & Aureal is long gone, a "new" driver could be questionable.) Done.
Music to my ears .
But ... I've hung (not BSOD) twice after putting the card in. I've since removed it.
Reliability is more important then sound, but sound would be nice.
I have any number of PCI slots available. I'm in the next to the bottom slot (so not next to any other cards).
Nothing of significance in Event Viewer.
Ideas I might try to get the card to work without crashing?
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#2. "RE: Newly Installed Sound Card Crashes (Hangs) System" In response to therube (Reply # 0)
Like Shelly said, try a different Pci slot. I am also wondering if perhaps there is more going on with that Board. The onboard sound went out and that is tied to the Pci system in the computer. Do you have anything else plugged into the Pci slots? Is there anything else you can plug in just to test your pci's.
#3. "RE: Newly Installed Sound Card Crashes (Hangs) System" In response to jmc (Reply # 2)
Video is AGP. Pretty sure no other PCI slots in use.
> I am also wondering if perhaps there is more going on with that Board
You are right to wonder, & you are right.
Some time ago one of the sound channels died (i.e. I was only getting sound from the left or right speaker). And before that one of the DIMM slots died.
Other then that, & since those happenings, it has run just fine.
So I'm just riding it to its end, I know that.
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#6. "RE: Newly Installed Sound Card Crashes (Hangs) System" In response to Shelly (Reply # 5) Fri May-27-11 05:14 PM by therube
Of the soundcard? Not a whole lot to it. Just a bunch of cans, a chip here, a chip there. Could be a bum card? Or could be a general M/B problem & any PCI device would cause trouble? (Previously had nothing in any of the PCI slots.)
Certainly not my system (temps).
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