it would require windows to be reinstalled  

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Things just went from bad to worse.

I uninstalled all the drivers for the Creative Audigy POS and removed the card.

Then I went into BIOS an enabled onboard sound.

Ive now tried to connect my speakers (Boston Digital BA735) but theres no suitable connection on the back of the board... see below.



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eh? how do they connect to the SB card?

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Quote from: brummieeh? how do they connect to the SB card?

Im using onboard sound now.


Ok, solved that by using the analog connector.  Sounds like sh*t though and I cant control the sound quality through the usual Windows sound interface thingy...

Is there any way to use the digital connection?...
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u installed the drivers and utility for the onboard?

Quote from: brummieutility for the onboard?

es a bit of a genius, our brummie!  :mrgreen:

Played around with stuff.  Not as good sound as digital (I think) - but workable I guess.

Now for the biggie - whether onboard sound will solve the issue with the gaming...  :shock:


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good luck

I bet it wont lol

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Well....

IT DOES!

Right, firstly:

[size=36]#*$%[/size] Creative and the horse they road in on. Grr!      

Now that thats off my chest. ...

Tomb Raider: Legend usually crashed within 45-60 seconds (every time without fail).  Now I can get at least an hour+ out of it.  Aint Next Gen graphics great?!  :mrgreen:

Yes, it does still crash but in a different way now (black screen but with sound and game engine still apparently running) which Im confident this time will be a graphics card driver issue (currently running 84.43s).  Ill try to get the error report next time.

Sound hardware acceleration is still at full tilt with the onboard sound so Ive yet to explore that option.

Oh, and Ive yet to patch it.

Phew!  Were getting there.

And PC World will be getting a returned POS sound card tomorrow.  

Ill keep yuz up to date with progress - cheers!Ã, 

did you format the other day ?
(a few days back)

if you did, and you havent installed too much again yet, Id do it again

might as well, weve been messing around with a load of options that might come back to bite you in the ass

a format now the sound issue if fixed should see it running 100%

Quote from: knightydid you format the other day ?
(a few days back)

U-huh.

Quotemight as well, weve been messing around with a load of options that might come back to bite you in the ass

a format now the sound issue if fixed should see it running 100%

:cry:  :cry:  :cry:
Everything seems fine - can you think of what settings were changed that might affect it?

leave it for a bit to see how it gets on. Dont rush it.

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A 2 hours sesh later and TR:L is running fine with all settings maxxed-out.  :mrgreen:

...all is well with not a crash in sight!

Well, we got there in the end - thanks for everyones help!
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*pops the cork on some bubbly*  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:

its a pity the old forums went down, im prety sure this would win the longest problem fixing thread in history