Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum on XP IRQ Issue

[Michael]

Use system restore to return to a point before he tried to
install the game.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have the Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum sound card
>running on a A7N8X MB, Athalon 2700 processor. It worked
>ok for 4 months, then stopped working. It just plays 1/4
>second blips of sounds.
>
>I contacted Creative, they ran me through a long list of
>items, deinstalls, even removing the card, re-installing
>XP then installing the card. No go. They said the card
>must be on an IRQ of 15 or less, mine is on IRQ 19. They
>said to contact Asus to find out how to get it on a lower
>IRQ. Asus said to re-install XP, selecting F5 at startup
>and selecting Standard PC mode. This disables the
virtual
>IRQ functionality of XP. The card now works in this
mode.
>
>I want to get this card working in normal mode, I have 5
>other instances on swappable disks that I do not want to
>rebuild. Also, I don't want to give up the extended IRQ
>functionality.
>
>The card stopped working when my son tried to install the
>game that came with the sound card. there should be a
way
>to get this working again. Please help.
>.
>