Weird problem XP freezes after system was off for several hours after ....

[egyteam]

XP freezes after system was off for several hours upgrading to Soundblaster Xfi xtreme music:

I have a weird problem I am unable to fix. I had a system that was running stable before I upgraded to a Soundblaster Xfi card.

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G, Athlon 64 X2 3800 AM2, 1 GB PC 3200, XFX Geforce 7600GT, 80 GB system drive Barracuda 7200, Sata Raid 2x 300 GB Maxtor DiamondMax10, PSU Seasonic 600W, Ralink Wireless PCI card, Sony floppy, Pioneer DVR 111

After the installation of the new soundcard I could reboot initially but not reboot when I used the PC a few hours/next day later. The blue XP indicator bar would freeze. Tried several re-installs. Then I re-installed everything including XP from the beginning. When re-installing the graphics card driver (old and latest version) system would hang with a blinking cursor.

I also updated BIOS successfully to F6. Full re-installation -everything seemed to work. Re-booted several times- OK. Booted a few hours later- XP freezes when blue indicator bar has ben running for a few seconds.

I have now the latest drivers for both soundcard, graphics card, BIOS and latest DirectX installed. I cannot understand why the system would reboot immediately after installation but freeze a few hours later. Is this some kind of hardware problem ?

REMOVING the X-Fi card solves the problem, this X-Fi card was using on another rig without problems

my friend and I using same components and we both have same problem!!

[Serra]

Because it booted after your initial installation (at which time I'll assume you had not yet installed drivers), I would be led to believe it's a driver-related issue myself. I'm not big on computer audio, but I seem to recall a number of posts concerning SB driver issues.

Wasn't much of a solution, but it's at least a place to start googling or for other posters to jump off at least.

To troubleshoot this, try uninstalling the device in device manager and removing the driver from your system. If you can start up just fine, that's a good indication. Another indication that it could be a driver issue is if you add the /SOS switch to your boot.ini file, it tells you when drivers are loading during startup, and if you hang on a SoundBlaster one, then you'll know it's them.

*Note: Some people have reported issues with the /SOS switch on SP2. I havn't actually got around to trying /SOS in a boot.ini on SP2 to comment, so if it doesn't work for you that may be why.

[egyteam]

Thank you for replying

if I just plug in the sound card into the mobo, I have the problem, even before I install the sound card driver, I doubt it is a driver problem. and it also prevent me to install the graphic card driver.

when the loading bar's splach screen lockup, I have to login into safemade and either uninstall graphic driver or disable the sound card/ uninstalling sound card driver doesn't help, i have to disable it to be able to boot in normal mode.
The lockup problem only happen on coldboot after leaving the pc off for 10 min, sometimes I can login to the windows with graphic driver and sound card both installed and play all games without problems, I can also do as much as I want restarting and no lockups, once I shutdown the pc and comeback the lockup begin ....

the sound card works without problems on my other rig

I think it something related IRQ, which value should I choose for IRQ clk 32,64, 128 ?