[icemanj076]

Hi all,

Here is my problem. I just put together my PC and everything was fine until after I installed Windows XP Pro and installed my motherboard drivers and utilities (MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum) from the CD that came with the mobo. The CD included drivers for the nVidia nForce 3 Ultra platform and other MSI utilities such as Core Center, DigiCell, MSI Live Update, etc.)

After installing everything on that CD, the computer restarted fine and dandy. Next I installed the video card drivers with no problem and the PC restarted fine. It was not until I installed the dreaded Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS drivers for my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum sound card that all the problems and errors started popping up. I installed the entire CD that came with the card (all drivers and media source). Once I rebooted, the first error upon Windows startup was "nvraidservice.exe" error message that says it was interrupted and could not start-up. After closing that pop-up, a slew of other pop-ups came up. These were the utilities I installed for my motherboard (Core Center, DigiCell, MSI Live Update, etc.). The pop-ups all say drivers not loaded and the application did not start up. But once I uninstalled the Audigy 2 ZS drivers, everything is fine and no errors upon Windows startup.

I've disabled the onboard sound via the BIOS and even checked if there was any nVidia nForce audio listings in the Device Manager and found nothing there to disable. I've tried installed the drivers in every combination possible (installing the Audigy first then mobo drivers and vice versa). I did however find the lone problem by process of elimination, the Audigy ZS 2 drivers for Windows. It wasn't the media source or any other Creative application. Just the plain drivers. I've tried updating the drivers as well, but the same problems keep popping up.

Has anyone ever experienced this before? I'm about to bring my PC to a computer shop to see if he can do something about this. I'm not sure what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff