Audio trouble

[scar69]

Hello everyone, I am having trouble with the audio quitting on one of my pc's. It just randomly stops working and requires a reinstall of the drivers. The computer is DFI LP DK X38, Q6600 @ 3200mhz, 4GB GSkill F2-8500, Geforce 9800 GTX, WinXP SP3, Creative XFi XtremeMusic, and 2 WD 300GB HDD's. I had originally been experiencing the problem with the onboard Realtek Audio and I just recently installed the XFi soundcard in the hope that it would fix it. Well it worked for a couple of days and just quit working again. There are no errors or problems detected in the device manager or dxdiag. I have tried using different speakers and headphones but nothing works. The only thing that seems to work is to reinstall the audio drivers. Its getting freakin' annoying.....any ideas?

[_dangtx_]

is it possible something else,software wise,is in the mix?

can you run a live cd and see if it drops with that one too?

on the hw side, is your mobo very dusty? i just dedusted an old audigy 2 that was acting up, it had layers and layers of
crap on it, now its ok.

[KaptCrunch]

current audio driver xp 32/64bit ALC885 is R2.58 for MB

other is conflicting with Creative XFi XtremeMusic card ,current driver Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver 2.18.0015 don't support XP.

best go into device manager and check IRQ's and memory registers aren't sharing

[scar69]

Originally Posted by KaptCrunch

current audio driver xp 32/64bit ALC885 is R2.58 for MB

other is conflicting with Creative XFi XtremeMusic card ,current driver Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver 2.18.0015 don't support XP.

best go into device manager and check IRQ's and memory registers aren't sharing

There is one newer version of that driver dated Feb.16/11 that is for WinXp and is the one I have been using. I went into the device manager and saw no conflicts. Are you thinking this is just a driver conflict issue?

[scar69]

Originally Posted by _dangtx_

is it possible something else,software wise,is in the mix?

can you run a live cd and see if it drops with that one too?

on the hw side, is your mobo very dusty? i just dedusted an old audigy 2 that was acting up, it had layers and layers of
crap on it, now its ok.

Just tried a movie dvd and there was no sound. As for the dust I just installed the XFi about 2 weeks ago and usually clean my computers once every couple of months.