If you're running Vista, you could try bouncing the user-mode audio stack service (since Vista moved audio completely out of kernel and into user mode). Otherwise, I'd probably chalk it up to Creative's legendary inability to write a driver worth a damn.
> -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Beave > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:25 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: [H] SoundBlaster XFI Extreme Audio Problems > > Hello all, > > I have a problem that is actually frustrating me. The problem is with > the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Extreme Audio PCI-E I have. > > The Problem is that every once in awhile while watching videos or > playing Video Games the Sound Driver crashes and no sound comes out of > the sound card. Sometimes I am able to switch the sound device to the > USB headphones I have and it works, sometimes it does not and need to > reboot the computer. Either way in order to get the X-Fi to work I need > to reboot the computer. > > System setup: > Asus P5N-T nForce 580i motherboard > Intel 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme Edition > Asus branded nVidia 8800 GTX Video Card > Creative Soundblaster X-FI PCI-E ExtremeAudio > 4GB of Dominator 1066 DDR2 memory > > I have removed the device and removed the drivers and it sill happens. > I’m getting close to wits end. > > Regards, > > -- > Tim "The Beave" Lider > E-mail: be...@cox.net > MSN: be...@cox.net > AIM: dowbeave
