is this kewl kit:?

[Yaka]

Asus P4T533 mobo

OCZ 1066 rimms x 2

SBAudigy Plat

Seagate Barracuda 40 gig hdd x 2

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hope fully i`ll be installing it sunday after noon

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Apart from the SB, yes

(ONE MAN CRUSADE ETC.)

 

[Embattle]

Audigy 2 out soon

 

[FuZor]

Lets hope they actually release working compatabile drivers this time

 

[Xavier]

Originally posted by Yaka
Asus P4T533 mobo

OCZ 1066 rimms x 2

SBAudigy Plat

Seagate Barracuda 40 gig hdd x 2

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hope fully i`ll be installing it sunday after noon

erm, yes and no

the P4T533 is for 32-bit RIMMS - that OCZ stuff is likely 16-bit (paired) which means you need the P4T533-C

OCZ themselves were recently found to be uber-dodgy so I'd go for Kingston Valuram PC1066RIMM anyhoo...

As to the audigy I'd get the Audigy II player

Although you could as easily get yourself an ASUS A7N8X (nForce2) and some DDR400 the APU on the nForce2 MCP-T does realtime dolby 5.1 encoding/decoding and sounds schweet :>

Xav

 

[Yaka]

well i got it all fer £200 an mobo is indeedy the C ver. phoshop and 3dstudio maxx aint crashing fer me any more

 

[xane]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
Apart from the SB, yes

(ONE MAN CRUSADE ETC.)

Yesterday I was at my sister-in-laws house fixing their PC, they have a Dell machine with an SB Live Value in it, after about an hour the machine starts playing up so I go through the processes and kill them off one by one until it works, the culprit is "devldr16" which is the SB DOS Emulator driver.

I remove from the startup, the f*cking thing puts it back again, eventually I delete/rename the file, that fixes it. I do some more searching and most of the Creative software crap either doesn't work or crashes horribly.

Web searching reveals a lot of people with this problem, however, absolutely no mention of it on the Creative support "knowledge base", attempting to download the latest drivers puts me at position 100 in a queue, on a modem with a pay-as-you-go tariff, no thanks.

Creative are shite, I still use an Aureal Vortex2 at home, it works great (until I upgrade to XP that is). Creative sued Aureal over a patent, they lost but the expenses put Aureal out of business and Creative bought them out, even though the Vortex2 was a superior chipset to their EAX crap they binned it, I hate them.

(Stands alongside Scoob)

 

[James-]

Originally posted by camazotz


Yesterday I was at my sister-in-laws house fixing their PC, they have a Dell machine with an SB Live Value in it, after about an hour the machine starts playing up so I go through the processes and kill them off one by one until it works, the culprit is "devldr16" which is the SB DOS Emulator driver.

I remove from the startup, the f*cking thing puts it back again, eventually I delete/rename the file, that fixes it. I do some more searching and most of the Creative software crap either doesn't work or crashes horribly.

Yeah, I had similar problems with it under Win98. In order to boot up, I had to go through it stage by stage, saying 'no!!¬' to the dos drivers. Very irritating and the only way I could discover of fixing it

 

[Xavier]

Originally posted by camazotz


Yesterday I was at my sister-in-laws house fixing their PC, they have a Dell machine with an SB Live Value in it, after about an hour the machine starts playing up so I go through the processes and kill them off one by one until it works, the culprit is "devldr16" which is the SB DOS Emulator driver.

I remove from the startup, the f*cking thing puts it back again, eventually I delete/rename the file, that fixes it. I do some more searching and most of the Creative software crap either doesn't work or crashes horribly.

Web searching reveals a lot of people with this problem, however, absolutely no mention of it on the Creative support "knowledge base", attempting to download the latest drivers puts me at position 100 in a queue, on a modem with a pay-as-you-go tariff, no thanks.

Creative are shite, I still use an Aureal Vortex2 at home, it works great (until I upgrade to XP that is). Creative sued Aureal over a patent, they lost but the expenses put Aureal out of business and Creative bought them out, even though the Vortex2 was a superior chipset to their EAX crap they binned it, I hate them.

(Stands alongside Scoob)

did you turn system restore and stuff off?

xav

 

[FuZor]

I'm forced to agree, Creative are shite!
I find my on-board sound with year old drivers 100% compatabile with all my stuff Unlike my Audigy that was bugged and quite frankly VERY unstable with XP even with new drivers, they suck

The final blow came to a head when UT2K3 kept crashing because of the Audigy

 

[Embattle]

Mine seems all right, even if the output is a little low on the Optical out.

 

[FuZor]

I'm sure the majority are ok, but take a look at creative support forums lol!
I'm just waiting for a new set of drivers that work before going back to the dark side of my audigy

 

[Embattle]

I have although the drivers do take the piss.

 

[James-]

I like the avatar, Fuzor

(sorry had to say that)

 

[FuZor]

DOH!