NF7-S + Turtle Beach woes

JAZJAZ UK
edited December 2003 in Hardware
I got myself a NF7-S and an XP2500+ the otherday (running happy @XP3200+) and due to the fact I use my computer as a little home dj station running PCDJ outputted to an external dj mixer I need two soundcards installed.
I had no problem running 3 soundcards in my old KX7-333 (2x s-blaster pci128 and a turtle beach santa cruz) but Im having a hell of a time installing another soundcard in my NF7.
Im happy to use the onboard sound as my main output as it sounds great and I also want to use my turtle beach as the secondry output as it sounds better than the pci soundblasters.
However I cannot get the turtle beach (or the s-blaster for that matter) to install, I tried disabling the onboard sound but that doesnt help, heres what happens when I try to install it.
It will install ok up untill the gameport is found then the box comes up saying copying driver to system etc and it will just sit there for ages then the start bar will not respond (cant acsess program files or open task manager etc) if I open my computer it will just be an empty box that has that "not responding" at the top and the only option is to hit reset, after it starts to reboot it will sit on the windows loading screen indefinatlly and I'll have to reset again and choose the "last config that worked option" to get back into windows and then Im back to where I started with no turtle beach installed :/
I even thought stuff it and put the crappy s-blaster in but windows wont even detect it.
I've tried 3 PCI slots but each gives the same batch of errors, I have only an agp G4ti in my computer and nothing in any PCI slots and Im running XP, theres only 1 set of XP drivers on the turtle beach site.
I also have to reinstall the n-force drivers after this as I get a "bad d-sound driver" error when turning the onboard sound back on, any ideas as its driving me mad.....

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I tried once more by removing it then re-installing it, this time it seemed to put it in ok and the gameport went in ok but it stalled for ages on shutdown so I had to hit reset then it wouldnt load windows again....

Comments

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    You have a problem with PCI sound card drivers trying to grab builtin game port, probably (OR using same resources as builtin audio), and they want it for midi. Problem is, that XP treats sound as more realt ime than as an interruptible resource, and that modern is made to have multiple outputs if you use SPDIF. I would use a mixer external to computer, sorry to say, until PCI sound cards are made that allow themselves to be interrupted without flaking. Other way is good software, and blend in computer using one DSP and then output one flow combined. You have two-three speaker channel outs if this is full 6-channel onboard, feed channels out and remix as needed external to computer.

    John.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    see this thread at abit maybe ...http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?threadid=33633 ...mad mat seems to have a workaround.
  • JAZJAZ UK
    edited December 2003
    Cheers for the pointers, I've got it to install ok now but I had to disable the gameport on the TB.
    I used mad mats solution (remove nforce drivers/install TB/install nforce without sw ide) is that sw ide really important to have installed?
    Trouble is Im going to have to remove the TB and put one of the s-blaster pci cards in as the TB refuses to work with my PCDJ program :/ it locks up the program when I increase the pitch past a certain point :skeptic: I solved this before on a previous motherboard by reducing the hardware acc but it doesnt seem to work with this NF7 so hopefully the sb-pci card will work.
    Thanks again chaps
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