Bluetooth works until sound card is installed...

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packetstorm

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#1042 7-Feb-2004 11:43

This seems odd and maybe i am missing something...I got an IO Gear Bluetooth adapter which uses the Widcomm 1.4.2.10 drivers. After installing the adapter per instructions in Windows XP post SP1, it didn't work. Figuring it was a conflict of some kind, I unplugged everything USB, except the blue tooth adapter and still nothing. Then i decided to uninstall my sound card and reinstalled the the Widcomm drivers and wouldn't you know...it worked. Now when i try to put the sound card back into the system after installing the drivers, i get a "cant start bluetooth stack" error and a "can't start bttray.exe" error. Also My Bluetooth Places won't open.

Is there something special about a sound card and maybe the com or serial port that it works off of that interferes with the bluetooth stack? I tried a Creative Audigy card and a turtle beach Santa Cruz and the same thing happens.

I can't find anyone else that has this problem and I'm stumped.

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#3335 7-Feb-2004 12:25

It sounds (no pun intended) more like a hardware conflict. Perhaps some settings in the BIOS that cause the motherboard to share the USB and the audio card IO?

packetstorm

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#3339 7-Feb-2004 20:33

Verified motherboard and bios config for conflicts in XP. Looks clean. Also checked bios to see if anything was being shared as far as interrupts and IRQs and it looked clean as well. this is really frustrating because it seems no one else has this sound card and bluetooth conflict issue.

Not sure what to do now and I was so psyched when I got my bluetooth phone...sigh.

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#3493 13-Feb-2004 17:24

Backed of data, blew away XP system, reinstalled OS...Conflict resolved.

Usually never use such drastic measures but I had absolutley no clue as to was causing it. I tried everything and pretty much had had enough. Wasted a week trying to resolve it...Won't make that mistake again.