How i Fixed my 8800 BSOD in Vista 64

[Azrael1]

After much problems with BSOD in vista 64 and the 8800 GTs, i narrowed it down to the creative X fi sound card.

I have removed the card and no BSODS for the past 2 weeks.

http://forums.creative.com/creative...essage.id=19947&view=by_date_ascending&page=3

Heres the link, seems its specific to 4 GB ram and Vista 64. Also didnt appear with my old ati card just the new GTS

Hopes this will help anyone with the problems that I've had.

 

[willhub]

There is an even better soloution, move back to XP and your X-Fi cans till be used, or use Vista 32bit.

 

[Azrael1]

ill wait till one day where they fix the problem. may be months or years but one day...

 

[willhub]

ill wait till one day where they fix the problem. may be months or years but one day...

You might aswell sell your X-Fi then.

 

[Down1oader]

yeah, they wont fix it. It has been a problem for a long time now... Infact their latest update creates more problems :S

 

[Coolasmoo]

While i agree there is a problem with many people running XFI and 4GB in Vista

I have it working great now after some initial trouble.

I was getting the infamous Crackling and Screaching on bootup and it would only go away by restarting the driver in control panel.

After Downloading the official creative ISO CD from a link in there forum, installing over the top of the latest drivers they have on their site. It now works perfectly

I never did get a BSOD anyway, but this one solved the above problem

 

[JohnnyG]

I'm just about to get 2x 2gb (from 2x 1gb) and have an 8800gtx, V64 & an Xfi.
It currently works fine, will I definitely get the problem or is it just hit and miss?

 

[lay-z-boy]

Seems to be hit or miss, however In both x64 xp and vista I found installing the latest downloadable drivers and then the software disk over the top removed any problems I had.

 

[JohnnyG]

Cheers, I'll take a chance, haven't got the software disc though