E-MU 0404 and Audigy 2 WON'T work together :(

[pockerface90]

I'm really fustrated now,
following your advices, that it would be no problem to run with 2 soundcards, and bought all the equipment, I cant get the audigy 2 zs platinum pro and the e-mu 0404 to work together.

I tried to install first the e-mu (works great alone), then the audigy. First run, it installed but it wont boot (BSOD, no time to read what it said, auto reboot).

Restart safe mode : both drivers and soundcard information in system/hardware are gone.

Pluged cards out , cleaned the drivers (is there any good creative driver cleaner, by the way?) , tried again, but disabling the E-MU before installing the Audigy, and this time with kx-project drivers. It installed but there was no sound on either card.


Could one of you, who have an audigy 2 and an E-MU actually installed and working , help a little out, please?

system is windows xp prof. , sp2 , P4 northwood 3.2 , 1GB RAM

 

[labeelen]

did you try different PCI slots ?
Although in theory Windows ACPI should take care of sharing interupts in some cases certain card combinations don't really like each other (interupt-wise)

Trying another PCI slot (read: another IRQ) might help.

I've had a similar problem trying to get a TV-card and a sound-card working together ... in the end I found a PCI-slot combination that worked.

good luck

Louis

 

[Stephonovich]

The EMU and Audigy (or A2) share common drivers, since Creative makes 'em both. I am puzzled as to why with KX on the Audigy you couldn't get it working, though. I know it has been done, though; I believe Iron_Dreamer runs such a setup (could be mistaken, though), so hopefully he'll pop in.

As for a driver cleaner... There is only one, IMO. Reboot in Safe mode, dump everything Creative related. For good measure, run the Cab cleaner while you're at it.

 

[TimG]

I currently have them both working welll together.

I originally had the audigy 2 ZS in my computer and the latest drivers from creative.

I then installed the EMU-0404, on bootup I canceled the add new hardware attempts from windows. I then ran the driver disk for the 0404. When it is installing the drivers and asks if you want to overwrite the files, hit NO. You will have to do this a couple times. You want to keep the audigy version of the files on there.

After it is done and a reboot, the cards worked fine together. The only thing that no longer worked was the cthelper.exe app that ran at startup. I disabled this with msconfig.

The key is to have the audigy in and working with the latest drivers FIRST.
Tim

 

[Stephonovich]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TimG You want to keep the audigy version of the files on there.

Wouldn't you lose some functionality on the EMU, though? Such as ASIO? I assume they have different drivers.

I'd suggest KX Drivers for the A2, except you lose a lot of gaming goodies when doing so. They only support EAX v1 last I checked. Whether or not this matters or not to you is a personal choice, of course, but I like having all the fun stuff.

 

[TimG]

I have not lost any function. I use both ASIO and wav out for the 0404, both work great. I have full functionality with the Audigy 2 card, including the creative sound mixer.
I keep the audigy as the default windows card. I have winamp and foobar setup to use the 0404.


Tim

 

[Kurt]

http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85529&

 

[Annihilator]

it should work fine if you install the audigy 2 first, download the latest drivers, install those. then install the emu and if it asks you to replace any files, don't. should work fine.

 

[DevilDog]

Yeah, make sure you install the Audigy first then the Emu. There's an addendum that should have come with the Emu that tells you how to do it. (I'm too lazy to go and dig mine out right now)
My Audigy 2 and 1212m get along fabulously.

 

[pockerface90]

Well, i just tried it again, with your tips and it's working great now !! Thanks for taking the time to help me!

Funny is, this install setup was the very first i tried, and it did not work at all. It wont load the E-MU mixer at all. Well, now i also installed the latest Audigy drivers, too.

So, my setup now : E-MU 0404 ($100) -> Fast Audio BiCoax 2 ($90 , 0.7meters) -> Rega Ear ($250) -> Sennheiser HD 595 ($160)

I don't know if FastAudio is well known in the U.S. but the guy selling me the Rega Ear said it's good. http://www.fastaudio.com/INT/index.html

...regarding the sampling rate, if I play a 48Khz , I must change the clock in the E-MU mixer?

thanks again for your help !