Audigy Crashes

[SecretSquirrel]

I  recently installed an Audigy card and since then have suffered from a series of intermitent problems-
Doing nothing particular on desktop and suddenly drops - reboots and soundcard no longer detected.I have to move to different slot for it to be redetected.
Some crashes appear to worse than others to the point i get a blue screen of death, couldnt restart either in safety mode or previous working config - ended up reinstalling XP.
These crashes can be minutes apart or weeks.
I have
XP - all critical updates 'n stuff
Abit KT7 MB with original bios - about 2 yrs
Asus GF3 with Nvidia 28.8-ish drivers(cant remember exact but theyre recent)
Latest Creative driver Patch
Isdn card
Nic card
There are no irq conflicts - each device is on a seperate one.

Anyone got any ideas ?
I'm doing a clean install if that doesn't work i'll have to fork out for an upgrade MB & other stuff.

SS signing off

[DogMeat]

Wasn't Audigy married to Alf in Coronation Street?

[Gandalf]

Where have you plugged in the sound card?

Look at http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/faq/qa/2000/2000101502.htm for info on IRQ sharing.

AGP and PCI-1 share an IRQ
PCI-2 and PCI-3 share an IRQ
PCI-4, PCI-6 and USB share an IRQ
PCI-5 has an IRQ

If your soundcard is in slot 1 then this could cause major crashes as it is competing with your graphics card for an IRQ.

Looks like slot 5 is your best bet. Put the nic in slot 2 and the isdn card in slot 4

That should give you and individual IRQ for each card.

If you've already done this then I don't know!