devlin Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 Hi All Well here I go again Bought a new sound card creative labs sound blaster 5.1 live . installed it fired up the pc put the driver disc in the drive and it shut down my pc, and it went into a cycle of,, start up, disk check, start up, shut down, etc. I started it in safe mode tried to delete the driver but it was having none of it error 0x80040201 event was unable to evoke any of the subscribers, went into sys restore and solved it from a restore point. any ideas on how to fix this, I have tried to obtain a driver from creative support but as the card came with no product litrature I think Iam stuffed any suggestions Dev Quote
DirtyPolo Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 (edited) Hey devlin, following these steps should result in you seeing the information about your soundcard, please post the results for us to see. Click the Start Button and then click "Programs". Next, click the "Accessories" and then "System Information". Within the "System Information" window, click the "+" symbol next to "Components". Click "Sound Device" (or "Multimedia" and then "Sound Device") and in the right-side of the window you should be able to locate complete information about the sound card. And what computer do you have?, make, model, 32bit or 64bit OS, etc. Edited December 23, 2008 by DirtyPolo Quote Cooler Master HAF 932Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.3GHzAsus P5K Premium Black Pearl2GB OCZ reaper 1066MHZATI Radeon HD4850Pictures! Click Here To Register And Get Started In The World Of Free PC Help Forums! If Free PC Help Has Helped You, Please Consider Leaving A Donation By Clicking Here!We are all members helping other members.Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.
Plastic Nev Posted December 24, 2008 Posted December 24, 2008 (edited) Hi Devlin try this, remove the sound card, if not already out. Then search for the driver, hopefully going back to the restore point, the driver shouldn't be there, but if it is uninstall it. Then first install the drivers from the disk, then install the card. Let us know if that works. Edited December 24, 2008 by Plastic Nev Quote Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register here. If Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click here We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have installed Windows, now how do I install the curtains? 😄
devlin Posted December 25, 2008 Author Posted December 25, 2008 Hi All Thanks to Plastic nev and dirty polo between both of you and following the suggestions it now works just great, thanks again guys. After Christmas holidays I am intending a revamp of the entire pc as its getting a bit 'old' now as is most things around here, me included. Dev Quote
Plastic Nev Posted December 25, 2008 Posted December 25, 2008 (edited) Hi, Devlin, thanks for the feedback and I am glad all is now OK. A tip for any future hardware installs, if it comes with a driver disk, always install the drivers from the disk first before installing the hardware, unless any instructions say otherwise. Edited December 25, 2008 by Plastic Nev Quote Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register here. If Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click here We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have installed Windows, now how do I install the curtains? 😄
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