Soundcard causing BSOD should I just get rid of it?

[unozero]

I keep on getting getting BSOD whileplaying games and listening to music alota times its because of CTAUD2K.SYS which is something creative related and I keep uninstalling and updating the drivers and nothing seems to help.....what do I do I think mobo has onboard but right now I have myxbox hooked up to the soundcard so if I'd want to to this with my onboard sound the audio would gp in to the blue input right? blue is line-in no?




If anybody know how to permantly disable this CTAUD2K.SYS bsod problem let me know this has been going for more then a year and I;m sick of it.

 

[VirusType2]

You try this patch or whatever

http://www.opendrivers.com/driver/2...-patch-for-windows-2000-xp-free-download.html

Probably not.


Anyway, at a glance this file looks like it might be the actual driver.

What operating system do you use? Regardless, here's what I'd do:

I would remove the card from your computer and uninstall the drivers and software. Restart the computer.

Then re-install the card and let windows install a generic driver. Could work. You should try a different PCI slot this time. Also Windows update might get you the right driver if it doesn't have one.


If not some kind of software conflict, I think this is probably some kind of incompatibility with your motherboard and might be worth looking at what BIOS updates are available. Don't go out there and brick your computer now.

 

[Laivasse]

Be careful of diagnosing BSOD problems just on the basis of the file that Windows cites as the problem. Quite often the error message will scapegoat a certain driver when the actual problem is bad RAM, overheating, or whatever. BSODs are notoriously irritating to diagnose. How certain are you that the sound card is causing the problem? Try disconnecting your xbox or running with onboard sound for a while to see if the problem goes away. If you're not certain it's the soundcard, try monitoring temps to eliminate the possibility of overheating which is in my experience the most common cause of BSODs.

Also, if it is the soundcard, a different PCI slot might help as VT says.

 

[unozero]

Thanks for the responses guys,right now I'm using Win7 64bit,I googled around and alota people are having the same bsod when they're using win7. and the BSOD actually doesn't happen when I'm gaming on myx xbox but when I play the PC version of MW2 so maybe you're right Laivassse and it's something else...I mean if I do get rid of the card I just hope my onboard card can do the same stuff the Xfi can(PC and Xbox sound at the same time)
I browsed creatives forum and people aren't very happy with their support it seems and one staff member posted a beta drivers which Im using right now,so far so good.Only time will tell I guess.




Also a few years back my PC wouldn't even boot when I put the card in the PCI slot next to the PCI-E16x slot so I called creative and they told to move it over and then it worked I never had a problem like this when I was using XP and Vista 32bit and just started when I went to win7 last year...

 

[VirusType2]

My wireless USB device would BSOD my new computer (New MoBo/CPU/RAM/OS installation), when using XP. I tried a bunch of things but ultimately ended up getting a different wireless device - which I wasn't reluctant to do anyway, since there were no drivers for the device in Win7.

I used to have problems with my X-Fi card with my last (MoBo/CPU/RAM/OS installation). Sound wouldn't work correctly in all games - sometimes there would be some extremely harsh static sound during the game. I was lead to believe by Creative that it wasn't fully compatible with my motherboard. With my new computer, I don't have any problems, so there could be some truth to that.