[Soverntear]

Hi everybody. Last night i came home from work and decided to update some drivers on my computer, so i updated my vid card. everything worked fine. when i went to update up sound card, i installed the new driver from cnet (i have a Sb audigy and downloaded the audigy driver pack)after installiung i restarted and about 2 seconds in to the restart, my cpu went quiet. and now my loading time to windows is at least 3 times as long. i checked the bios and set it back to load of harddive. still same problem. so i let it load and i have no sound. i checked device managed my sound card is still there. I went to sound controllers in controll panel. and my SB audigy is not on the list. so i uninstaled and reinstalled drivers. same problem. i was wondering if you guys/girls had any advice to get my sound working and my loading time back to normal that would be great.

[Jonathon28]

Try a System restore: Start > All Programs > Accessories > Sys Tools > System Restore
It should solve your long booting time if it has only happend since your driver update.

Also a general peice of advice, when you've got it up and running again, do a defrag. Helps speed it up.

I've had this problem with a display driver which Windows Update found to be a correct driver. It wasn't!

[Soverntear]

Originally Posted by Jonathon28

Try a System restore: Start > All Programs > Accessories > Sys Tools > System Restore
It should solve your long booting time if it has only happend since your driver update.

Also a general peice of advice, when you've got it up and running again, do a defrag. Helps speed it up.

I've had this problem with a display driver which Windows Update found to be a correct driver. It wasn't!

i tryed mulitple system resotres since, and still same problem, long boot time and no sound. gonna try and update the driver with windows this time

[Soverntear]

ok so the new driver from windows update. it worked I have sound again. and the loading time was about 10 seconds faster loading windows. now im getting an error when i try to open the SB audio console. saying that it cannot find the device. any suggestions on it and the slow load time? also just so you know, its loading fine from the windows log in screen its everything before that. i also have xp SP2

[Jonathon28]

Did you fully uninstall any previous Sound Blaster audio drivers or software from Add/Remove Programs and then restart before installing the new one from Windows Update?

[Soverntear]

Originally Posted by Jonathon28

Did you fully uninstall any previous Sound Blaster audio drivers or software from Add/Remove Programs and then restart before installing the new one from Windows Update?

ok please in the future remind me when im tierd quit trying to fix my pc lol. no i did not, oging to do that right now. and in the future when im updating drivers, should i remove the old ones before installing the new drivers?

[Soverntear]

so the console is working now. i got new drivers from the creative web site. fixed that. but its still running slow on startup. it take 1 min exactly (used a stop watch) it should take about half that to get to the windows log in screen. its a amd fx60 2.6 dual core running 2gb ram. any suggestions?

[Razer]

the usual maintaning stuff, defrag, clean-up and uninstall all the old programs you never use, should help slightly. from what i can see you have your sound working now and everything is ok. i advise then next time you start it up and log in run MSCONFIG and stop some programs at start up. this will increase the speed of boot before and after the welcome screen. clean your pc aswell, dust is a killer on processing power. im sure you have a vacuum cleaner about so show it to your pc insides. or even try rolling back the driver. can be done on device manager. will return it to the previous drivers which worked fine and keep your boot time normal.