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XtremeMusic PCI Card No Sound After Reboot
I've been experiencing a weird problem with my SB XtremeMusic card recently and am at wit's end trying to fix it.
About every fourth or fifth reboot, I lose sound. The card still appears in device manager (with Windows reporting the device status as working properly) and the speaker icon still appears in my taskbar as it always does. The "Sound" tab in Control Panel shows everything configured exactly as it was before the reboot, and yet the card will still not output sound. The card worked fine for a couple of years and only started acting up a couple of months ago.
Installing the latest and older Windows 7 drivers from Creative doesn't fix the problem, and the only way I've been able to get sound to output again is by uninstalling the card in device manager and letting Windows redetect the card and automatically reinstall the software. The card works fine for several boot cycles, and then inexplicably stops working again. I'm getting real tired of this uninstall/reinstall routine, and was wondering if anyone has a solution.
Thanks in advance for your help.