Speedlink Medusa 5.1 USB Headphones

[ro2]

Just tried a pair of Speedlink Medusa 5.1 Headphones with Windows 7. They work for about 10-20 seconds and then the machine blue screens.

Hopefully someone from Speedlink will spot this and sort out some drivers

 

[Michael Marmor]

Hello,

I got nearly the same problem. Therefore i'm looking for a solution.

Headset: Speedlink Medusa 5.1 USB - Mobile Edition
SPEEDLINK / Products / PC Accessories / Headphones & Microphones / Headsets / Medusa 5.1 Mobile

After inserting the USB into the slot Windows 7 started to get the
drivers from the windows site. It worked but you can only use 2-channel
sound although it is an 5.1 channel device.
Afterwards i started to click my way to the "device management". There I
updated the drivers by telling Windows where the Speedlink drivers are. It installed them and asked me for an restart.
After restarting Windows I got an bluescreen everytime I inserted the device.

Are there alternative drivers?


Thanks,
Michael

 

[ro2]

That's the pair I have too. What AV are you using? I had AVG free and I uninstalled it. If I use Windows Media Player it still blue screens, but if I use Winamp or VLC player it can work for 20 minutes before it blue screens.

I also get two different errors MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.

 

[Michael Marmor]

I am using the Kaspersky 8 prototyp package, that you can use for free.

I think the bluescreens occur because of the C-Media drivers from Speedlink!
Seem that they are not compatible. It's also not possible to install the Speedlink-package "sl-8794_sl8795".

I just uninstalled the drivers and used the Windows-7 driver. After that the Headset worked, BUT only "2 channel"

Want to play with 5.1!!!

 

[ro2]

Just tried that, no blue screens with the Microsoft drivers

Go into the Control Panel - Hardware and Sound - Manage Audio Devices, then highlight your USB Audio speakers and click Configure. Mine lists it as 7.1 Surround. If I do a test, 6 of the 8 speakers work. No way to change it from 7.1 to 5.1 though.

 

[Michael Marmor]

Yes.

I bought an 7.1 headset too... :sarc:! There is no option to set it as 5.1!
Hmmm.... 7.1 with 2 "damaged" speakers or 2-channel stereo?
.
..
I think I will take the first option.


We should write an Email to Speedlink or/and Microsoft because of that bug an that not compatible software.

What do you think?

 

[ro2]

I think it'd be quicker buying 7.1 headphones! I'll send an email to Speedlink support.

 

[hazakis]

Hi there. I have the same problem. With the windows 7 driver, aparantly works just fine. But it´s only 2 channel.With the official driver, e get blue screens all the way. I already wrote a e-mail to speed link support. i'm waiting for the answer. I hope they can develop a new driver for windows 7. Sorry for may bad english, i´m from Portugal.

 

[BMN]

Hello from France,
i've got the same issue with my medusa 5.1: working with 2CH with the windows7 driver and crash with the speedlink driver. Did you have some news from speedlink about this problem ?

 

[ro2]

Best option is to uninstall the Speedlink software and use the Windows drivers instead.

Speedlink don't have Windows 7 drivers for it on their site yet. They do have Windows 7 drivers for the 'Medusa NX USB 5.1 Gaming Headset' now.

 

[hazakis]

Hi there, i just tried the drivers for the Medusa NX USB 5.1 Headset and until now they work just fine!

No BlueSecreens e it sounds amazing again!
Try it out!

Here´s the link

SPEEDLINK / Products / Gaming Accessories / PC Gaming / Headphones & Microphones / Headsets / Medusa NX USB 5.1 Gaming Headset

 

[updatethebios]

I am the nice internet guy. Update your drivers to above, and then update your BIOS if you're having same problem. Worked on my HP laptop (dv6-1100eo).

KTHXBAI!

 

[balamut182]

hello from russia. i have same problem
speedlink's driver is cause of windows going to BSoD.
problem exists on Win 7 x64 only.