Hey,
I have X-fi Fatality, Win XP, Creative 5.1 speakers (5200) and I have the latest drivers installed.
Everything was working perfectly fine, until a few days ago, when I bought Nvidia 8800 GTX graphics card and installed it on my Nforce 4 A8-NE card.
Now I can only hear the left front speaker, center and the left rear speaker. When I do the test, I hear "LEFT front" and "RIGHT front" from the same left front speaker. The same is with the rear one. The cables are fine, I checked them and tried switching them, the speakers are fine as well. I tried re-installing the CD drivers, then the latest drivers, nothing helped. I tried reinstalling graphics drivers and chipset drivers as well.
IRQ conflicts haven't been found.
If I connect the speakers back to the Nforce4 onboard card, the speakers work perfectly fine.
One more thing I noticed is when I unplug the cables and plug them back again, the speaker input is changed: for example, if I heard LEFT FRONT from REAR LEFT, when I unplug the cables and plug them back again, I hear LEFT FRONT from the CENTER speaker. Is there some kind of a sensor?
I read that people have problems when both x-fi and nforce 4 installed. But I wonder if anyone fixed those problems, or you just throw a $200 card in the garbage? Does somebody know how to fix this?
Creative forums don't give me any replies. HotHardware forums are down. I really hope that HotHardware could offer me some suggestions.
Thanks in advance,
Animy.
I have X-fi Fatality, Win XP, Creative 5.1 speakers (5200) and I have the latest drivers installed.
Everything was working perfectly fine, until a few days ago, when I bought Nvidia 8800 GTX graphics card and installed it on my Nforce 4 A8-NE card.
Now I can only hear the left front speaker, center and the left rear speaker. When I do the test, I hear "LEFT front" and "RIGHT front" from the same left front speaker. The same is with the rear one. The cables are fine, I checked them and tried switching them, the speakers are fine as well. I tried re-installing the CD drivers, then the latest drivers, nothing helped. I tried reinstalling graphics drivers and chipset drivers as well.
IRQ conflicts haven't been found.
If I connect the speakers back to the Nforce4 onboard card, the speakers work perfectly fine.
One more thing I noticed is when I unplug the cables and plug them back again, the speaker input is changed: for example, if I heard LEFT FRONT from REAR LEFT, when I unplug the cables and plug them back again, I hear LEFT FRONT from the CENTER speaker. Is there some kind of a sensor?
I read that people have problems when both x-fi and nforce 4 installed. But I wonder if anyone fixed those problems, or you just throw a $200 card in the garbage? Does somebody know how to fix this?
Creative forums don't give me any replies. HotHardware forums are down. I really hope that HotHardware could offer me some suggestions.
Thanks in advance,
Animy.