Random BSOD

briand88 said:

Oh right i havent had this on the computer for atleast 2 years.

not the model number but i know the name of it. Asus Xonar DS 7.1 Sound card PCI

That's great!

Follow this link: http://www.asus.com/uk/Sound_Cards_a...Desk_Download/

Download the latest driver, restart and let me know if your sounds back.

Shouldn't be, i've just tried it and it works fine?

Try again, should be a .rar file.

briand88 said:

it says its a .rar but showing as a windows note pad on my computer lol

Ah! You need to have WINRAR installed.

Install it here: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/winrar-x64-521.exe

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After this, download and extract the .rar file and run the setup.

scrap what i said above. Under playback devices i have.

Speakers - ASUS Xonar DS audio device
S/PDIF Pass-Through Device - Asus Xonar DS Audio Device
S236HL-4 Screen - Nvidia High Definition Audio (My Screen)
Speakers - VIA High Definition Audio (Ready) underneath

briand88 said:

Ok so now my soundcard shows in playback devices, My headset isnt working by just making the soundcard my default device i test it and the green bar shows but no sound comes.

Then if i go to Asus Xonar Audio centre and select headphones and test it playes thorugh the headphones.

Headphones are plugged in to the 7.1 soundcard via the audio jacks this is how it used to work what ever i wanted to play audio through i made that my default device so when i wanted to use the screens speakers i selected the screen as default device, and when i plugged my headset in i made the asus xonar soundcard my default device and this worked but now it isnt :S.

Bri

We'll fix it! First of all though, have your Blue-Screens stopped occuring for now?

briand88 said:

scrap what i said above. Under playback devices i have.

1. Speakers - ASUS Xonar DS audio device
2. S/PDIF Pass-Through Device - Asus Xonar DS Audio Device
3. S236HL-4 Screen - Nvidia High Definition Audio (My Screen)
4. Speakers - VIA High Definition Audio (Ready) underneath

I have figured out what these are no doubt you already knew though.

1. Audio Jacks from my Asus Xonar Ds sound card
2. Optical passthrough (from sound card or GFX card? not used)
3. Is my Monitors speakers the HDMI from my GFX card to my monitor
4. Is my built in Motherboard sound card and my front audio panel on my case (both ofwhich i dont use)

So from a playback devices point of view its sorted and is as before. As for the HD VDeck is this relating to my Motherboards Built in sound card and cases front panel Audio Jacks which i do not use?, If so would it be OK to disable them all in play back devices, The non used sources and uninstall/remove HD Vdeck? as i do not use the Front jacks or my Motherboards audio jack ports?.


I also think i have figured out why i was Blue Screening in the first place, I was disabling some things on Startup to try and get the PC to boot a bit faster Already boots in like 15-20 seconds as the OS is installed on an OCZ Vector SSD so me being a pernickety s**t started to disable things in the Startup on System Configuration thinking i could get a faster boot time so i disabled things like Skype etc then i see HsMgr did not recognise it so i disabled it what is is though. Hsmgr.exe is a driver component for Asus, Auzentech, Creative and other sound cards. HsMgr.exe (32-bit) and HsMgr64.exe (64-bit) are services that provide the GX2.0 features. Under Vista, they also enable Directsound 2D/3D/EAX for applications, so it is not a good idea to disable them. These run at startup and in many cases you will be asked to allow the file to run on each startup. To eliminate that behavior and allow it on all bootups, open the file properties, and on the General tab click the "Unblock" button.


So now in System Configuration i now have my 2x old HsMgr Drivers 1x 32 bit and 1x 64 bit driver and also my two new ones. So the new freshly installed ones are ticked to boot on start up and my two old ones are un-ticked so what should i do with my old ones just leave them unticked or is there anyway to remove them?

So in reality it appears i caused myself my own pain in the ass, causing my own BSOD.

Also one more question I have a tri core CPU but noticed on startup it said only 3 cores were activated so I re activated the fourth is this something Tht would happen on a BSOD the CPU returning back to the 3 cores?

Apologies if you feel i am jumping the gun a bit.

Brian