[QUOTE=Jupiter 2;1045268]Many years ago, during a stint at a computer repair shop the Certified expert advised me that the sound card shoud go at the far end on the PCI bank, away from the CPU. This only applied to older sound cards as some sound cards after 2007 preferred the cpu end.

As I explained to the other poster, the information here is available to all who want to read and get knowledge to help them with their problems. Therefore, please explain what cards after 2007 need to be closer to the CPU and which ones need to still be further away. I have tried to search for this information on-line but can not find any reference there. So I thought it best to just ask you. It would also help if you could supply a reference to where your facts came from so any one can check it out. Thank you in advance for your kind assistance to all who will read your response.

Gigabyte Sound cards

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I have tried to show you all the mistakes that you have made in a private forum, your private message box, but you blocked me as you do not want advice on your incorrect self serving posts. I do not want the public to read your silly posts and think that they could have some merit. If I can not inform you in any other way I need to do it here. You have admitted that everything I have said is correct, your answers are wrong and misleading and yet you continue to post them. The public need to understand that you have about 5% correct answers, and not to just jump in and follow blindly what you offer. You defender has also admitted he is also wrong with what he has said and now he has started doing what he should have done in the first place, trying to discover more information to help the poster. The two of you continue on this assault on me because I pointed out you inability to give correct information. Unlike you I am not looking for "Points" I only want what is best for the posters and it certainly is not what you are offering.
I have only posted to you to show you where you have made a mistake, I have never just attacked you. I have made plenty of mistakes in my life and I have learned from them. I will continue to make mistakes and I hope that some one will point out where I hav be mistaken so I can fix it. That is all I have been trying to do with you. You have taken offence and I am very sorry about that. The moderators will need to step in on this problem as it is just being escalated by the two of you and something needs to be done. This is the only place where I post (Daniweb) and I would hate to think that Jupiter 2 was posting his uninformed information on other sites as well. I will be staying here to help posters (if the moderators will permit me) so I will not be going away. So as was suggested (instructed) by crunchie in a much earlier post "Play nicely"

Bob - You are this | | close to being banned.

Have your right of reply to this Question

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread237762.html

Really, you are closer. Those multiple uses of highly unnaceptable language just earnt you a 5 point infraction.

Play nice.

And just to add my two cents, i have never heard anything about the sound card thing either. Maybe "back in the day" (by that i mean early/mid 90s) it might have been true though.

Hi Pim,
i do sincerely apologize for all that aside arguing between all of us and that you were in the middle of it all.
I can not find a direct answer to your problem, but if you go to this site at Creative Labs, you may be able to get a better result as you know the details about your problem.
http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowA...897):obj(81909)
If you can not find a solution in the data base, you can then send an email to them and hopefully they will send you a constructive reply in a short time.
If they can not assist you and you have exhausted all other possibilities, a repair install may be the only answer. If you are forced to do one, you will only lose your Windows service packs, hot fixes and updates since your OS CD was produced. As I said, if all else fails...
PS. If you do, later, consider doing a repair/install look at slipstreaming your OS CD first, it will save you a lot of trouble when doing the repair.

Well it seems that the program SpeedFan is causing the problems. When I disable it the disruptions are gone.

Strange. Glad you got it solved though.

Have a look HERE Creative's own support site (ie, their own location for driver downloads) and you tell me where you see a single "Audigy" driver available.... found one yet????

The simple facts are these:
a) The Audigy range has not been supported for some time now. Creative has moved on to the X-Fi models without a backwards glance. All support for the Audigy-class cards ceased at the end of the usual "support cycle". Look it up!
b) Creative seems to raise more complaints (and calls for work-arounds) than ANY other HW vendor, every time a new Windows OS rolls out (again, look it up!). I contrast this with my trusty old CanoScan, which though 7 or more yrs old, still can be made to work, not only in an OS two generations on, but in a x64 Windows environ which didn't even exist when the scanner was manufactured!

Rather than trusting Creative to provide accurate/helpful details, have look on their own support forums.... what you read there might well illuminate you (spent many a long hour there myself in the past!) Then use Google to look at just how many issues ppl have getting their Creative products (Soundblaster cards more than anything) to work with any new Windows release, especially when Creative either drags their heals in releasing a new driver-stack (contrast this with nVidia, who constantly releases pre-release driver builds for Windows pre-release builds.... Creative never ever supports those), or abruptly ends the support-cycle, leaving end-users out in the cold!

None of this is made up, or said without basis. Take the time to look it up, and actually educate yourself for once. I'm far from being the only one to have been burnt by Creative!