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Stupid Sound drivers... or something
Kor
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So, I'm becoming frustrated.
Recently a friend gave me a hand-me-down 7.1 surround sound system for my computer.
After plugging everything in, I realized I was using onboard sound, and never installed my actual sound card. So off to the internets to download some drivers for my Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2.
Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Installation finished, computer asked to restart, I let it. I got a nice Windows is starting jingle and thought 'awesome'.
However, I've yet to get anymore sound out of this computer since that single jingle. I've restarted it about 4 more times, reinstalled the drivers again, and nothing, my computer has become mute.
I've searched in the standard places, volume control, control panel>sound devices, device manager>sounds>my card.
Everything looks like it should be working, but obviously, it isn't.
Help me obi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope.
Recently a friend gave me a hand-me-down 7.1 surround sound system for my computer.
After plugging everything in, I realized I was using onboard sound, and never installed my actual sound card. So off to the internets to download some drivers for my Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2.
Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Installation finished, computer asked to restart, I let it. I got a nice Windows is starting jingle and thought 'awesome'.
However, I've yet to get anymore sound out of this computer since that single jingle. I've restarted it about 4 more times, reinstalled the drivers again, and nothing, my computer has become mute.
I've searched in the standard places, volume control, control panel>sound devices, device manager>sounds>my card.
Everything looks like it should be working, but obviously, it isn't.
Help me obi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope.
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1) Uninstall your sound drivers for both on board and add on sound.
2) go into the BIOS and disable your on board sound
3) reinstall your sound drivers for the add on card
also make sure everything is plugged in right. if your audigy 2 is like mines the back connectors have no markings.
Despite having an Audigy 2, installing the Audigy 4 drivers seemed to have worked... go figure.
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Its not exactly the case anymore. Modern operating systems can deal with multiple sound hardware. (I used the line in from my onboard chipset to connect additional devices - video game consoles for example - and and played the output through the speakers connected to the sound card). But it is always good to eliminate additional trouble sources.
Creative drivers are not exactly the best - and they usually don't care about older product and the compatibility to new OS. Nothing much has changed during the introduction of the emuk architecture (Soundblaster Live! 1024 line). Thats the reason you can use Audigy drivers with different products. I believe latest driver setup contains support of all the models in the Audigy line. But even a modified "Audigy 4 only" - driver would work with an Audigy 2.