Sound Blaster

[exg-darkstargtx]

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Motherboard - UPDATE

Attention all Fatal1ty motherboard owners.........

I finally got my XFI extreme music card to work. I was getting unknown PCI device errors and non-booting issues...

I did some research on Abit's website and they have creaded a Beta BIOS 18 update.

Here is the link to the forum...(please allow me to post this link)

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=93036

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I had to uninstall all XFI drivers and software, turn off my PC, remove the card from my PCI slot, then restart my PC.

After downloading the zip file, I unzipped it and ran my FlashMenu program and it installed and flashed my new BIOS....

I turned off my PC and installed the XFI card. I installed the original drivers and programs that are on the CD that came with the card.

I cold and warm rbooted my PC and NO ERRORS..... YAH!!!!

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Here is my setup:

AMD FX-55 Processor
ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard (ver. 18 BIOS)
BFG 7800GTX
2GB Corsair XMS PRO
NEC DVD/RW Burner
2x 250gb Maxtor 16mb Hard Drives
Linksys Wireless G PCI Adaptor

[Takkochan]

*bump*

ho-hum...it's nice that evga, msi, abit and epox have addressed the problem with bios updates...still no luck with mine. Any Albatron K8SLI users out there with the unknown pci device on cold boot-up problem?

[Catherina-CL]

Hi everyone,

First of all I'd like to thank you all again for your feedback, both here on the forum and in direct contact with Customer Support.

A problem was identified on nForce4 based systems where the system ran into difficulties, related to the enumeration of the cards with 2MB (X-Fi XtremeMusic and X-Fi Platinum). This resulted in a variety of symptoms:

- The system may freeze or not boot

- The system may list multiple "Unknown PCI Device" entries and lead to a BSOD

- The system may reboot repeatedly (when "Automatically Restart" is enabled in the Advanced system settings)

Some motherboard manufacturers have already acknowledged this issue and released a BIOS update to resolve it. For systems where a BIOS update is not available we will be providing an alternative resolution in the form of a replacement card with modified firmware. Please contact Customer Support for your region for further details.

Cat

[Juanlo]

So, the problem is affecting ONLY the Xtreme Music and Platinum, and ONLY with nForce4 motherboards?

[trodas]

Bump for reply on this
And I very much like to know, if X-Fi Fatality is clear of this problem - and - BTW - anyone got it working in DFIl LP B nForce2 mobo?

[Catherina-CL]

Juanlo,

Yes, that is correct.

Cat

[emulamer]

Since Creative is replacing these cards, is that evidence that there is a problem with the X-Fi cards and the motherboard manufacturers are just patching around buggy soundcard firmware, or is this a problem with the nForce4 chipset and Creative is just being nice?

[aldamon]

"Some motherboard manufacturers have already acknowledged this issue and released a BIOS update to resolve it. For systems where a BIOS update is not available we will be providing an alternative resolution in the form of a replacement card with modified firmware. Please contact Customer Support for your region for further details"

Are you working with DFI? I'm experiencing these problems on my NF4X nForce4.

Do you have replacement cards available now?

[Futuremark2]

actually using the xfi cards with 7800gtxs or eq. theres some sort of voltage spike caused by super powerful video cards that cause some of the sound cards components to burn up causin an immediate rma...

[Futuremark2]

but oh well as long as my Fatal1ty works perfectly Except for a **bleep** Rear Right Channel pop during Sound Test but durin games its near perfect other than DoD Source with some poppin sounds of Distant MG42 fire in the distance with near realistic Simulation of the Sense of Sound Combat... the Positioning and rumblin of the Planes flyin directly overhead in BF2 to the shoes hittin the ground on R6 3 to hearin bullets exit the chamber from ur enemys gun to hittin ur chest ... its just unreal compared to the ZS... how can u be missin out on all this stuff!!!... just rubbin it in ur faces while u guys still cant try ur new Xfis