Driver conflict with creative audigy 2 platinum ex & windows XP

[Dan Ellis]

After installing creative audigy 2 platinum ex soundcard
on my sony vaio (windows XP home OS)I now have problems
booting up. After a boot up, I check my windows task box
to discover that the CPU is running at 100%. When I hit
restart, an "end program now" box appears. The name of
the file is ctspkhlp.dll. After several bootups, it
finally loads correctly (I Guess). ny Suggestions?

[Peter]

All Creative sound cards load tons of stuff (unless its a basic card) and
this is the reason people buy the cards. If you don't need or use all that
additional crap (which people think makes them sound engineers or sumpin)
try un installing it.. You can use XP drivers without adding all the bloat
which, for my machine, has caused lottsa problems in the past...
"Dan Ellis" > wrote in message
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> After installing creative audigy 2 platinum ex soundcard
> on my sony vaio (windows XP home OS)I now have problems
> booting up. After a boot up, I check my windows task box
> to discover that the CPU is running at 100%. When I hit
> restart, an "end program now" box appears. The name of
> the file is ctspkhlp.dll. After several bootups, it
> finally loads correctly (I Guess). ny Suggestions?