2nd Sound card stops PC booting up!!!

[Greg]

I have just bought a new PC with XP Home Edition.

I use headphones and a microphone with Flight Simulator 2002 and in my last
computer had two sound cards so I can use one for the headphones and
microphone and the other sound card for the aircraft engine sounds in
FS2002.

I bought a PCI sound card model CMI 18738 PCI 5.1. When I was running the
installation wizard it warned me that something wasn't compatible with
Windows XP but I continued anyway. The second card installed and worked
fine, but when I rebooted my computer it stopped at a blank screen with
nothing on it. I switched the PC off and on again but the same thing
happened, so I chose from the boot up error menu to start from "the last
successful config" and it booted up fine but without the soundcard
installed. This told me the card was obviously stopping XP from starting,
but the box says compatible with XP???

Can anyone tell me what is happening and do I need to take this card back
for a refund?

Thanks

G

[Rory]

You may need to download a driver.
See the MS help site for driver downloads.



"Greg" > wrote in message
...
> I have just bought a new PC with XP Home Edition.
>
> I use headphones and a microphone with Flight Simulator 2002 and in my
last
> computer had two sound cards so I can use one for the headphones and
> microphone and the other sound card for the aircraft engine sounds in
> FS2002.
>
> I bought a PCI sound card model CMI 18738 PCI 5.1. When I was running the
> installation wizard it warned me that something wasn't compatible with
> Windows XP but I continued anyway. The second card installed and worked
> fine, but when I rebooted my computer it stopped at a blank screen with
> nothing on it. I switched the PC off and on again but the same thing
> happened, so I chose from the boot up error menu to start from "the last
> successful config" and it booted up fine but without the soundcard
> installed. This told me the card was obviously stopping XP from starting,
> but the box says compatible with XP???
>
> Can anyone tell me what is happening and do I need to take this card back
> for a refund?
>
> Thanks
>
> G
>
>

[Greg]

Thanks for the reply Rory.

I cannot see a make on this cheapo card, so I think I may have to return it
and buy a brand name, wouldn't know where to start looking for drivers with
no brand name!

Could this not be a conflict of some sort? Seems like as XP boots and tries
to initialise drivers/hardware it stops at the soundcard, but why does that
completely stop it booting up and make it sit there with a blank screen?
Thank God that XP has the menu choices to choose last successful boot up!

Anyone?

Please?

Graham




"Rory" <eatspam.anddie> wrote in message
...
> You may need to download a driver.
> See the MS help site for driver downloads.
>
>
>
> "Greg" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have just bought a new PC with XP Home Edition.
> >
> > I use headphones and a microphone with Flight Simulator 2002 and in my
> last
> > computer had two sound cards so I can use one for the headphones and
> > microphone and the other sound card for the aircraft engine sounds in
> > FS2002.
> >
> > I bought a PCI sound card model CMI 18738 PCI 5.1. When I was running
the
> > installation wizard it warned me that something wasn't compatible with
> > Windows XP but I continued anyway. The second card installed and worked
> > fine, but when I rebooted my computer it stopped at a blank screen with
> > nothing on it. I switched the PC off and on again but the same thing
> > happened, so I chose from the boot up error menu to start from "the last
> > successful config" and it booted up fine but without the soundcard
> > installed. This told me the card was obviously stopping XP from
starting,
> > but the box says compatible with XP???
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what is happening and do I need to take this card
back
> > for a refund?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > G
> >
> >
>
>

[Greg]

Solved it!

Just went into Device Manager for another look after installing the second
card once again. I noticed there were two Standard Game Ports installed and
I only use USB for mine so disabled them both and guess what> it boots up
fine!

Guess it must have been two game ports trying to load at the same time that
caused the freeze when booting up.

G


"Greg" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks for the reply Rory.
>
> I cannot see a make on this cheapo card, so I think I may have to return
it
> and buy a brand name, wouldn't know where to start looking for drivers
with
> no brand name!
>
> Could this not be a conflict of some sort? Seems like as XP boots and
tries
> to initialise drivers/hardware it stops at the soundcard, but why does
that
> completely stop it booting up and make it sit there with a blank screen?
> Thank God that XP has the menu choices to choose last successful boot up!
>
> Anyone?
>
> Please?
>
> Graham
>
>
>
>
> "Rory" <eatspam.anddie> wrote in message
> ...
> > You may need to download a driver.
> > See the MS help site for driver downloads.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Greg" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > I have just bought a new PC with XP Home Edition.
> > >
> > > I use headphones and a microphone with Flight Simulator 2002 and in my
> > last
> > > computer had two sound cards so I can use one for the headphones and
> > > microphone and the other sound card for the aircraft engine sounds in
> > > FS2002.
> > >
> > > I bought a PCI sound card model CMI 18738 PCI 5.1. When I was running
> the
> > > installation wizard it warned me that something wasn't compatible with
> > > Windows XP but I continued anyway. The second card installed and
worked
> > > fine, but when I rebooted my computer it stopped at a blank screen
with
> > > nothing on it. I switched the PC off and on again but the same thing
> > > happened, so I chose from the boot up error menu to start from "the
last
> > > successful config" and it booted up fine but without the soundcard
> > > installed. This told me the card was obviously stopping XP from
> starting,
> > > but the box says compatible with XP???
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me what is happening and do I need to take this card
> back
> > > for a refund?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > G
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>