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Creative X-Fi sound card problems in Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Hello,
I have had this problem on and off. I had blue screens when I first put Vista on the machine, then they subsided after all the updates were installed. That was over 7 months ago. In the past few weeks, I have started having trouble again, and everything seems to be pointing to an issue between Vista and my X-Fi Music Sound card. Basically, the problem is upon returning from sleep after being asleep for over about an hour, the computer acts very flaky up until it completely locks up about 30 seconds after resuming. After doing a hard reboot, there is no sound upon returning to Windows. After a second reboot, sound returns. After returning from a short sleep, or sometimes just randomly, the sound will crackle. I have run driver cleaners and uninstalled all creative drivers, and reinstalled the latest driver from their website, but the problem remains. I had one driver blue screen recently, but it was only the second boot after reinstalling sound drivers, otherwise the problem is still exactly as stated above. I have the driver set on Disable all Enhancements as reccomended elsewhere, still no help, except instances of crackling reduced. Last night, I switched the computer to hibernate instead of sleep, and have yet to check it today. But I would prefer to have full use of the sleep feature. Computer's specs: Asus a8n5x motherboard (939) AMD X2 2.45Ghz 1x4GB DDR400 RAM 2 SATA hard drives 2 IDE optical drives 350 watt antec 8800GT 512MB video card X-Fi music sound card Vista Ultimate 64-bit Before I put Vista on it, the computer was rock stable running XP Professional, all hardware was the same except 2GB of RAM vs 4, which was recently added about 4 months ago. If I use the motherboard's integrated sound, all problems seem to go away, but the sound quality doesn't even come close, even with it having an equalizer and the equalizer being disabled on the X-Fi. If anyone has any ideas, please help! I know I'm not the only one with an X-Fi with trouble, but after googling time and time again, I have yet to find something that works. Thanks. |