Sound Blaster X-Fi fouls nVidia 6800GT, resource issue

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Kyle Jedrusiak

XP Pro SP2

The nVidia 6800GT with and older Sound Blaster Audigy 2 works fine.

If I remove the Audigy 2 and replace it with an new Sound Blaster X-Fi XP
can't allocate resources for the video board.

If I complete the install of the X-Fi board on it's own with the messed up
video it alone works fine.

If I remove the X-Fi. The video card starts working again.

The video card hast the latest nVidia drivers.

The system board has the latest BIOS.

I updated the Intel Chpset drivers.

Some tech is telling me that ACPI is the problem.

Help!?!?!


Kyle!
 
XP Pro SP2

The nVidia 6800GT with and older Sound Blaster Audigy 2 works fine.

If I remove the Audigy 2 and replace it with an new Sound Blaster X-Fi XP
can't allocate resources for the video board.

If I complete the install of the X-Fi board on it's own with the messed up
video it alone works fine.

If I remove the X-Fi. The video card starts working again.

The video card hast the latest nVidia drivers.

The system board has the latest BIOS.

I updated the Intel Chpset drivers.

Some tech is telling me that ACPI is the problem.

Help!?!?!


Kyle!
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It could be a ACPI problem but only if both the nVidia 6800GT (AGP???) and the
X-Fi card uses the same IRQ. You might want to:

1) Change the PCI slot for the X-Fi card so that the IRQs are not the same.

2) Refresh the BIOS IRQs.

3) Remove the nvidia video card drivers. Install the X-Fi card and then
re-install the nVidia drivers. There could a driver conflict.
 
I have tried the X-Fi card in all but one of the PCI slots as it's too close
to the video card.

As far as refreshing the BIOS IRQs...guess I'll have to find out what IRQ
the working video board is using and force the X-Fi to use a different one.

Right now they are all set to Auto in the Award BIOS.

I will also have to try removing the nVidia driver as you describe.

Thanks

Kyle!
 
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