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Sound Card Fails After Reboot
Name: lforge Date: November 24, 2003 at 09:11:06 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD 1800/ 256MB
Comment:
Everytime I reboot my PC the sound card and USB both fail. If I do a shut down they will both funtion on the next power up. The sound and USB were sharing the same IRQ. I have now forced the Bios to assign them thier own IRQ. USB is on IRQ11 and the sound is on IRQ4. IRQ4 used to be for the COM port but I have disabled all the COM ports and the LPT port to make sure that there are plenty of open IRQ's.
The Sound Card is a Creative ES1371, ES1373
The sound card only fails after choosing the restart option within Windows. A shut down and power up the sound works fine. HELP!!!
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