X-Fi Screech of Death

I have been trying a couple of the suggestions here to try and get rid of the screech. First I have reduced my audio volume to 72% instead of 100%. The screech seems to take longer to arrive but it is their. After 9 hours uptime it screeched VERY loud. After 16 hours of uptime I have completely no audio, nada, zlich zip!

 

Dell & Creative: Are you sure theirs no fault??? I mean a soundcard outputting sound, ludicrous!!

I'm glad to say that since I installed the latest nVidia driver, along with the 2.15 creative driver, I haven't heard a screech at all. Nothing!! Does this mean that it fixed my problem? It seems to have. I have been running almost 24x7 with just a couple of reboots for nearly a week and not a single SOD. If I hear another, I'll be back on to this thread, but for the moment (fingers crossed) all is in harmony with my XPS420. Hope the rest of you guys find a resolution. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that the drivers are just mere coincidence, and that the SOD will recur at some point...you never know..

 

 

Thats Great! I havent had one either since I tried that. It looks like we have found the Solution. We now have two Cases (myself and Gabhan) in which the updating of the Creative Drivers to 2.15 and getting the Latest Nvidia drivers from their website seems to do the trick.

 

 

mine is ok too with the driver updates.....

Can someone please provide link for Creative driver update.

 

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XPS 630i Black
Q6600 @ 3.00 Ghz
4GB OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2-800
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT
640 GB Raid 0 HD's
X-Fi PCI Sound Card
ATI Theater 650 TV Tuner
19 in 1 Memory card reader w/Bluetooth
Vista Premium SP1
Samsung 24" 2493HM LCD
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XPS 420
Q6600 @ 2.40 Ghz
4 GB 800MHZ
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT
750 GB HD
19 in 1 Memory card reader w/Bluetooth
Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
Dell 22" 2208WFP Ultra Sharp

Creative Driver:

 

http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=10485

 

nVidia Driver:

 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_175.19_whql.html

 

 

Thank you:robotwink:

 

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XPS 630i Black
Q6600 @ 3.00 Ghz
4GB OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2-800
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT
640 GB Raid 0 HD's
X-Fi PCI Sound Card
ATI Theater 650 TV Tuner
19 in 1 Memory card reader w/Bluetooth
Vista Premium SP1
Samsung 24" 2493HM LCD
__________________________________________
XPS 420
Q6600 @ 2.40 Ghz
4 GB 800MHZ
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT
750 GB HD
19 in 1 Memory card reader w/Bluetooth
Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
Dell 22" 2208WFP Ultra Sharp

Just for giggles, Lets do this:

If you have updated to the latest drivers for Creative (2.15) and Nvidia, post the results. i.e. If you have or dont have the SoD, and how long you have been running on the new "driver pack". I'm just interested in seeing if me and Gabhan have solved the problem or if we have simply given you people false hope or something."

i have latest driver from creative and nvidia , still random uncontrolable screech

2.15.0006 , 175.19.  it always reappears. running both drivers the day they were released.

Just to make sure, Re-download them both from the links provided and install. See if that helps.

 

Its odd considering that both me and gab aren't having the issue now that we are both on the latest drivers. It seems to good to be a coinsidence.

 

Thanks.

Toronto also has an older card. They might have made revisions to the cards. who knows.

What GFX cards are you rocking? Did you redownload both sets of drivers and install them?

 i have a Dell Branded  extremegamer in a XSP 720 , 6.5 months old , the only one that can answear if the card has had revisions is Chris_M , i have a 8800 GTX  , ive had 2 XPS 720's with the screech problem . i sent the first one back for this same problemed  screeching one . i have trird 2 other sond cards without screech . Auzentech X-Merdian  and a Asus Xonar DX2 no screech , i also tried  an AIT graphic card and still had screech

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@Toronto699 wrote:
 i have a Dell Branded  extremegamer in a XSP 720 , 6.5 months old , the only one that can answear if the card has had revisions is Chris_M , i have a 8800 GTX  , ive had 2 XPS 720's with the screech problem . i sent the first one back for this same problemed  screeching one . i have trird 2 other sond cards without screech . Auzentech X-Merdian  and a Asus Xonar DX2 no screech , i also tried  an AIT graphic card and still had screech

Message Edited by Toronto699 on 07-15-2008 02:47 PM

Message Edited by Toronto699 on 07-15-2008 03:32 PM

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Sorry man I thought you have had your systems longer than that. 

I'm not sure what to say.

 

I dont think that this driver update and the screech is a coincidense, as both me and Gabhan have done it and not had a screech (going on a week now)... Like I said earlier your best bet would be to redownload those patches TODAY and reinstall.