[JonBernal]

Lets see if anyone can help me out.
I just got a problem start with my computer,
when ever it boots it freezes, no error or
anything, just stops moving mouse, no
Ctrl + Alt + Del, only thing to do is to
press the power button.

I've discover that a work around is to go
into Windows Safe Mode, go into the Device
Manager, and disable the Sound Card.

Then I can restart windows, and it will start
alright, and then i can turn on the Sound Card
and i'll have sound once again. No problems.
That is until i restart the Computer and i'll
get the problem again.

Any ideas what it might be?
There is also no errors in the event log

Thank everyone in advance.

[Kilorn]

Sounds to me like Windows 7 isn't compatible with your sound card. My only suggestion would be to get a new one that is compatible. The newer Sound Blaster cards should all work well enough with Windows 7.

EDIT: Here's a link from Microsoft that has a lot of cards listed that are compatible:
http://www.microsoft...y=Sound%20Cards

This post has been edited by Kilorn: 24 September 2010 - 09:36 AM

[JonBernal]

Well this is a laptop so changing cards isn't
really an option. On the other hand i've had
this computer for a while, and have had no
problems with it.

And I would really rather not have to do a
fresh Windows Install, cause i don't wanna
redownload Everything.

[kowwok]

You really don't have to re-download anything if you backup what you have on your laptop that you want to keep. Don't you have a friend with an external HDD you could borrow?

[Ionut]

Have you tried reintalling the driver for your sound card? Or get an update from producer' site?

Another(maybe bad) idea is to create 2 bat files: one that disables sound card from registry and shutdowns your computer and another one that enables sound card at startup.
I think you can disable/enable sound card changing values in this path : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\AudioSrv, but I haven't tried anything, so this is not a safe information. Before messing aroung with your registry, install a virtual machine and make some tests on it.

Ionut

[RandomlyKnighted]

Ionut, on 27 September 2010 - 03:39 PM, said:

Have you tried reintalling the driver for your sound card? Or get an update from producer' site?

Another(maybe bad) idea is to create 2 bat files: one that disables sound card from registry and shutdowns your computer and another one that enables sound card at startup.
I think you can disable/enable sound card changing values in this path : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\AudioSrv, but I haven't tried anything, so this is not a safe information. Before messing aroung with your registry, install a virtual machine and make some tests on it.

Ionut

Haha...sounds like something I would do except I would probably create it using C# and then make it so the program is installed on the computer and runs in the background on startup. That way you don't actually see it working.