CMI 8738 Blue screens when trying to play games, run 3rd party software etc

[metalmaniac00]

I have a similar trouble to the one yellow has faced, I have an Audio Excel 5.1 card, which uses CMI8738 drivers, I get blue screen errors within five minutes of opening any games and some other software. Please help! The blue screen also says the cmaudio.sys error message.

Athlon 2100+
Gigabyte GA-7VA Motherboard
512mb DDR pc2700 ram
Geforce FX 5200 Video
80gb Seagate Barracuda HDD

[confus-ed]

welcome to windrivers metalmaniac00

Now the questions begin ... so please tell us.

1. o/s
2. patches etc applied (windows update, chipset drivers etc)
3. what you've tried so far
4. 'some other s/w' ? so what, as an example ...
5. The 'exact' wording on your bsod.
6. 'Other stuff' in your system, so any pci cards - modem, nic etc etc

No doubt there'll be more ... the more you can say in your opening posts the better - saves playing twenty questions & trying stuff you already did

[metalmaniac00]

welcome to windrivers metalmaniac00

Now the questions begin ... so please tell us.

1. o/s
2. patches etc applied (windows update, chipset drivers etc)
3. what you've tried so far
4. 'some other s/w' ? so what, as an example ...
5. The 'exact' wording on your bsod.
6. 'Other stuff' in your system, so any pci cards - modem, nic etc etc

No doubt there'll be more ... the more you can say in your opening posts the better - saves playing twenty questions & trying stuff you already did

1. Windows XP Pro
Service Pack 1

2. All windows updates available, I'm also on the latest Bios, just flashed it yesterday.

3. I've tried updating the sound card drivers, but that just doesnt work.

4. Advanced Zip Password Recovery

5. Identical to Yellow's earlier post, exactly the same bsod

6. Realtek NIC thats all and a firewire card (no idea what make/brand)

thanks for the welcome, by the way, I dont have an internal modem, use a router.

[confus-ed]

5. Identical to Yellow's earlier post, exactly the same bsod

Ooo ! very fast answer ... can you give a link for this ?

[metalmaniac00]

Ooo ! very fast answer ... can you give a link for this ?

http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=53229 there ya go mate

[confus-ed]

Oh bloody hell that was a saga ! & never got resolved !

Errr my final words on the that thread were ...

Can we have the actual error message, please?

So bearing in mind it might be somewhere on the two threads associated with Yellow ... give us a clue ! I is confus-ed again

[metalmaniac00]

Oh bloody hell that was a saga ! & never got resolved !

Errr my final words on the that thread were ...

So bearing in mind it might be somewhere on the two threads associated with Yellow ... give us a clue ! I is confus-ed again

man that error message is a whole freakin lot to copy down, it will take me some time to copy all that down on paper, and then type it up again.

[confus-ed]

Right the thread is 'magic' & will notify me when you've got this bit of info & I shall endeavour to answer .. Least you answer all the questions unlike yellow

To save some time & effort you might to like to read both those threads thoroughly & try or at least eliminate some of those 'suggestions/approaches' ... there was a lot !