Its just from the sound card :(
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Its just from the sound card :(
hmm......
Here's a suggestion you may not like....
The best way to solve problems is a clean install of the WHOLE computer. If you don't have much important information on your computer that needs backing up, I'd try it.
Remove windows from the computer and the stick in all the cards you want. Then, when you install windows, it SHOULD install everything properly, no IRQ conflicts, nothing.
Then, if you still get conflicts with the soundcard, this will tell you that the computer is just not accepting the card..... (which is a bummer)
Send an e-mail to both HP and Creative, and inform then of what is going on. Sometimes, they will respond with an intelligent message, giving you information and answers, yet sometimes, they respond with curves and "duh, i dunno, not our departments". Give it a try....
If I think of something, I'll let ya know....
That thought of reformatting has actually crossed my mind when I decided what the hell backed up all my latest seucrity downloads and stuff like that I rebooted with my "Recovery Disc" in and it booted. Then the cd launched the setup mode.. where I selected, Recovery, Format and Recover. etc ect. Then at the last option it freezes. I tried it once more. Then tried a different option. No luck. I dont know why it is freezing. It does has some scratchs on the cds... but why would it boot up and just freeze on me? Makes no sesne to me.
Do you know of any reason? So to order the same cds from hp is a $25 fee.
Don't order a copy of the CD, if it boots, it works..... There's a communication problem with the CD-Rom, possibly due to the Soundcard....
I'd suggest that you make a burn copy of the CD to another..... save yourself 25$, you already own the original, so no copyright infringement!
All I can say is contact both HP and Creative Labs to find out WTF is going on, and maybe, sadly, resorting to returning the Live 512 and buying another brand all together..... HP might not be compatible with Creative.... sucks....
E-mail Creative and inform them of the problem and ask them their compatibility with an HP...
How's that for now?
Here, instead of responding to this tread, send me a PM, how's that King?
Hey man very helpful. I messaged hp heres what they said
- Go to Start, Settings, and Control Panel.
- In the Control Panel, double-click the System Icon.
- In System Properties, select the Device Manager Tab.
- Under "Sound, video and game controllers," double-click on "Riptide
PCI Audio Legacy Resources."
- Place a checkmark next to "Disable in this hardware profile."
- Disable "Riptide PCI Game Controller" and "Riptide Virtual Gameport"
in the same manner.
Now I removed the drivers, not disabled..
Anyway will message creative.. and will brun the cds to see if it helps, thanks for your support.
first install your sound card and drivers as usual. then boot it up in safe mode, go to add and remove software and take away your sound blaster drivers reboot it and try it again. I have had the similiar problem with my soundblaster live and I have to do that everytime to install and have it work properly.
I have had similar sorts of problems with Creative sound cards. In my case it was because it was trying to install the 'legacy support', which is some sort of Sound Blaster 16 emulation.
I managed to get the legacy support to work by tweaking the BIOS settings.
I would suggest you see if you have a BLASTER variable set in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file - you may well have a line that says 'SET BLASTER=A240 I10 ....' or something similar. The important bit is the 'I10' which says it will try and use IRQ 10 for the legacy support.
What worked for me was entering the BIOS setup screen, going to PnP/PCI configurations, and setting IRQ10 to 'Reserved' i.e. not PnP. If the 'I10' is different e.g. 'I7', then try the above for IRQ7.
I've seen this problem more than once on different systems, so it might work for you :)