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Heru:
While it is incredably funny that the ONLY sound card approved for use in XP ultimately crashes the system, zombie is right about it.

I've heard many bad things about that card in XP, never having used it myself I can't be sure.  However I think if you were to try a different card(like a Soundblaster PCI 512 or Audigy) you would have better luck.  No promises though, because it could be partially caused by a flaw in the Computer system itself.

Also trying out Linux and some of the music programs for it may be a good idea.  I have no idea if the Santa Cruz cards will work in Linux though.  But to maximize your chances of it working, you should go with an easy to use distro like Mandrake.

Seeking000:
I'll give Audigy a try (I was drooling over it at the local computer shop).  As for what I have tried...  I have tried compatability mode for all OS's that XP allows; I have tried VMing many of the OS's and I have tried true versions and demo's from a variety of top notch to freeware music creation programs that do and do not claim XP support.  Not to mention trying clearly over 1000 different configuration settings within the operating system itself, plus spending 'days and days' working with "XP DOS" in boot-up to force an IRQ change.  I have long since disabled anything from plug&play to reverting the automatic controls XP uses back to PC.. and back again and off again .. backing up data many times.  I've been trying to learn how to read binary and maybe reverse engineer the OS (it turns out to be very difficult for a complete newb with no guidence!).  I've come to the conclusion that many aspects will involve new hardware and something along the lines of a new native OS.  *sigh*

Long, laborious and not much to show for my efforts..

Seeking000

[ June 05, 2002: Message edited by: Seeking000 ]

alied_perez:

quote:Originally posted by Seeking000:
Thank you for the quick and helpful responses.
Another interesting tidbit...
The soundcard 'upgrade' offered by Dell is the Santa Cruz Turtle Beach card.  What's interesting is that this is the only sound card that has been certified by Microsoft to be compatable with XP - (some digital / wave thing I don't fully comprehend).  The irony?

Whenever I use the native OS's synth and open any music composition program .. that program will crash with any sound activity and restart the computer, at which point the computer will crash continuously unless I disable Microsofts native win XP synthesiser from interacting with the _only_ sound card approved for that OS!

Is that crazy or what?

-Seeking000
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That happened to me when I tried to use my laptop modem with th M$-Certified-And-Tested Driver for WinXP. The modem never got to dial. Then I used the Win2k driver, and after I convinced WinXP that I'm older than 18, I'm responsible for my acts, I know why digitally signing is good, and I love Bill Gates, I could use the modem. This was just for a time. From time to time I had to reinstall the Win2k modem just 'cause the smart XP used to change it. If I didn't have to develop soft for Windows, I'd never tried XP, and if I weren't about to live my current job, (and to return the laptop; I live in Cuba) I'd have removed it a long time ago.

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