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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Mathman on July 21, 2003, 10:38:04 PM

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: Mathman on July 21, 2003, 10:38:04 PM

Saturday night, I played AH, used vox, and played some mp3s on my comp and everything was working fine.

Sunday afternoon, I turned on my comp and did some work, and eventually started up AH.  AH wouldn't start, some initialization failure.  Did a search, and found out it was a sound driver issue.  Reinstalled my drivers, rebooted, and tried AH again.  Same error popped up.  Shut the box down, pulled out the sound card, placed it in a different slot.  Restarted, reloaded drivers and directx 9, started AH.  AH loaded fine.  Then it hit me, there was no sound at all coming from the speakers.  Tried headphones, nothing.  Decided to call it quits and worry about it later.  

This afternoon, started up AH, again no sound.  Decided to try the onboard sound.  Killed the comp, restarted, entered BIOS, enabled it.  Once the drivers loaded, sound worked fine except no mic.  Dug out my old SB Live! and installed it.  Works fine.

Seems to me as if something on the Audigy died.  Anyone have any ideas?

System:
P4 1.8
512MB ram
WinXP
SB Live! (now)
Dx 9
Partridge in a Pear Tree

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: Estes on July 21, 2003, 10:59:28 PM

Which model Audigy math? I use an Audigy gamer on this PC and no problems.

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: Mathman on July 22, 2003, 10:22:34 AM

It is the Gamer.  I had no problems prior to this.  It almost seems as if the jacks in the back are fried.  I tried unplugging, replugging and all of the jacks and nothing worked.

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: funkedup on July 22, 2003, 11:49:48 AM

Did you check the mixer to make sure it didn't mute itself?

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: Mathman on July 22, 2003, 01:30:28 PM

That was the first thing I tried funky.

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: Estes on July 22, 2003, 01:37:35 PM

Math, if you installed all the software and Audio HQ, go into control panel and check the Audio HQ make sure your the right speaker combination is selected. I have surround speakers, but don't use them often, usually use headset and if I use the speakers and forget to change it back to headphones I don't get sound in the left ear piece. Just a thought.

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: funkedup on July 22, 2003, 02:51:31 PM

Check the EAX controls and make sure original sound and wav don't have the volume zeroed out.

What driver versions are you using?  There is a brand new 2k/XP driver plus a gaming beta.

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: blackfalcon4 on July 22, 2003, 05:20:09 PM

You don't mention wether there is any sound at all besides AH, startup sounds etc,,

What does it show in the hardware? no conflicts?

Title: Audigy problem
Post by: bloom25 on July 22, 2003, 07:03:13 PM

Remember that on the Audigy 1 the front speakers hook to the jack second from the end on the side opposite the firewire (IEEE1394) connector.  I've seen people use the one on the end of the card several times (as they are not very clearly labeled - 1 and 2 I believe) and not get sound.

Another thing to be sure of is that under control panel -> sounds and multimedia -> audio:  Make sure the preferred playback device is set to the Audigy, since you've changed cards around a few times.  Again, I've seen this cause problems MANY times.