MII12000 w/ Audigy 2 NX USB STANDBY

**blazinlow** · 02-19-2007, 09:47 PM

I know its been talked about before here, I've even participated in a thread about the same subject

I cant get my system to resume playback from Standby. Winamp hangs and I have to manually end the process. When i get back to the desktop, i see the volume icon on the taskbar reappear, as if windows enables the soundcard. I know it used to work, but I reinstalled my system and can't get it to work now.

Ive tried multiple versions of Winamp 2.9, 3.x and 5.02 -->current

Ive tried 3 versions of the Audigy 2 Driver - the original CD, and the two updates on Creative's website.

It hangs in WMP too.

Resume from hibernation works just fine.

If I close Winamp everytime before standby it boots up fine.
Im out of ideas, maybe someone can chime in.

**blazinlow** · 05-13-2007, 04:50 PM

bump.... i am almost 100% sure this used to work. I dont have problems with 100% volume on standby return...its just that if i go into standby while winamp is playing a song, it doesnt resume. Winamp locks up and i have to manually close it in the task manager.

another think i notice is upon return from standby, the volume control icon in the taskbar takes 1-2 seconds to reappear, as if its reinitializing it or something....

**gibroni** · 05-13-2007, 05:31 PM

Now I'm not 100% sure but I think the that mobo has the VIA Envy 24 bit audio chip, correct? Why the h3ll bother with an Audigy then?

**blazinlow** · 05-13-2007, 05:52 PM

need optical input for XMPCR

I got it to resume from playback one time just now. Then I put it in standby again and it broke. Trying a bunch of stuff now.

**blazinlow** · 05-13-2007, 06:11 PM

ok seems that windows media player does a much better job in controlling how standby is handled during music playback.

It doesnt resume automatically, but I can just hit play and it resumes from the beginning.

Winamp, on the other hand, crashes out of I go into standby. I have to go into the task manager and manually end the winamp.exe process.

Im using the newest 5.34 release of winamp

when I use the onboard AC97 audio, I have no problems with winamp and standby.

**blazinlow** · 05-13-2007, 08:58 PM

Ok more findings,

Reinstalled XP without any service packs. Winamp/Standby/Audigy2 (with generic USB drivers) works great.

Im going to try to upgrade to a creative driver and see what happens.

**blazinlow** · 05-13-2007, 10:40 PM

Went to service pack 1a, worked fine.

Then SP2, and the problems started.

Creative has a SP2 driver on their website, it doesnt work.

so it looks like I'll be staying on SP1a. There's no real reason I need to be on SP2, is there?

**hithere** · 05-15-2007, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by blazinlow

need optical input for XMPCR

You know, I absolutely cannot get my optical input to work on the NX...at least, not when I have "digital output only" selected in the speaker config...is there a way to do this?

**blazinlow** · 05-15-2007, 09:54 AM

I dont use any of the creative software, just the minimal driver install. You have to go into the volume control, choose options -->properties, then check SPDIF so it shows up in the mixer. That's all I do.