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- Nov 29, 2002
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So I'm checking out the latest bug fixes and patches at Windows Update Sunday morning and I decide to load the WHQL Drivers offered through Windows Update for my SB Audigy card. Seems innocuous enough, right?
It loads the Game Port Driver fine but when it gets to the Driver for the card itself, my system BSOD's and reboots.
Once it comes back up I have no sound. I go into the Device Mangler and try to remove the sound card so I can reload the drivers. No go. BSOD and reboot again.
Once it BSOD's the second time and reboots, I can then (and only then) remove the sound card from Device Mangler and reinstall via the Driver Disc that came with the Sound Card.
I locate the Original Install CD and reload the drivers. I reboot and get sound.
I go back to the Windows Update site and reinstall the WHQL drivers. Sure enough, BSOD and reboot. Once it reboots there's no sound and I have to perform the previously-mentioned steps to get my sound card to work.
I know that I should avoid the WHQL Drivers like the plague (at least with the current platform I have) but I'm wondering how/why this is occurring because it seems to me that a system shouldn't BSOD and reboot when loading a WHQL Driver.
Anyone else run into a strange issue with Windows Update causing a crash?
It loads the Game Port Driver fine but when it gets to the Driver for the card itself, my system BSOD's and reboots.
Once it comes back up I have no sound. I go into the Device Mangler and try to remove the sound card so I can reload the drivers. No go. BSOD and reboot again.
Once it BSOD's the second time and reboots, I can then (and only then) remove the sound card from Device Mangler and reinstall via the Driver Disc that came with the Sound Card.
I locate the Original Install CD and reload the drivers. I reboot and get sound.
I go back to the Windows Update site and reinstall the WHQL drivers. Sure enough, BSOD and reboot. Once it reboots there's no sound and I have to perform the previously-mentioned steps to get my sound card to work.
I know that I should avoid the WHQL Drivers like the plague (at least with the current platform I have) but I'm wondering how/why this is occurring because it seems to me that a system shouldn't BSOD and reboot when loading a WHQL Driver.
Anyone else run into a strange issue with Windows Update causing a crash?