Slight lag 1-2mins before reaching WinLogin screen.

[tubui]

I installed a PCI soundcard and tried about 3 soundcards after taking each of them out and putting another one back in.

But when I went to Sound & Audio devices in control panel, and clicked test hardware of the PCI soundcard, I got an error (I think it needed drivers but I didn't have internet access to get them)

So I tried a new soundcard and all 3 got errors..

So I took them all out but now whenever I bootup windows, after the Windows XP boot screen and before the Windows Login screen. I get this slight lag (black screen) for like 1-2 minutes.

Is there anyway I can fix this? Like make it back to normal like instantly load to the Windows Login Screen after the Windows XP boot screen..

I used Sp2 Windows XP Pro.

[LLXX]

The wait is probably caused by any drivers that have been installed. Remove them from the Device Manager.

[tubui]

How do I know which ones to delete?

[tubui]

I uninstalled them in safe mode. its still lagging

[Tasslehoff]

Do they show up by selecting unhide hidden devices, if they do show up, it means the cards have been removed before the drivers for them have been uninstalled. You have to plug each card in the same pci slot they were installed on, reboot and uninstall them via device manager before removing the sound cards. Hopefully that might eventually clear them all out. After removing any audio drivers from add/remove programs, the Realtek AC'97 Audio should be okay to remove and possibly the mpu401 device, not really sure about the others. Are they the onboard mobo sound drivers, if so they'll probably reinstall themselves on windows re-entry unless disabled in the bios ie: if you had onboard sound previously before installing the pci sound cards, they could be conflicting with each other which is why onboard sound should be disabled in bios before installing pci sound cards.

Edited July 18, 2006 by Tasslehoff

[tubui]

Do they show up by selecting unhide hidden devices, if they do show up, it means the cards have been removed before the drivers for them have been uninstalled. You have to plug each card in the same pci slot they were installed on, reboot and uninstall them via device manager before removing the sound cards. Hopefully that might eventually clear them all out. After removing any audio drivers from add/remove programs, the Realtek AC'97 Audio should be okay to remove and possibly the mpu401 device, not really sure about the others. Are they the onboard mobo sound drivers, if so they'll probably reinstall themselves on windows re-entry unless disabled in the bios ie: if you had onboard sound previously before installing the pci sound cards, they could be conflicting with each other which is why onboard sound should be disabled in bios before installing pci sound cards.

They don't show up.. I downloaded a Drivers Cleaner Pro 1.5 and I cleaned Creative drivers but it still not working..

[tubui]

someone help plz.

[Mordac85]

Try reverting to a System Restore point from before you started adding the sound cards or load bootvis to see what is causing the lag.

Edited July 20, 2006 by Mordac85

[Andromeda43]

Duh,,,,,why are you installing a new sound card?

I see from the driver list that you have AC-97,,,,that's on-board sound. (sufficient for most peoples needs)

If you're going to use a plug-in sound card for greater sound capability, you must first go into your BIOS and disable the on-board sound and remove the drivers for it in windows.

Then you can install a PCI sound card, load the drivers for it, reboot and be up and running with your new sound card.

Install the new sound card in any slot EXCEPT slot #1.

That's (sort of) reserved for a PCI video card.

Good Luck,

Andromeda43 B)

[chilifrei64]

have you ran bootvis to see exactally what is happening during the boot lag?

http://lazynetworkadmin.com/component/opti...,fileinfo/id,3/

[cyberloner]

go to safe mode del the devices in sound........