@ Gog: Ah, should I just get rid of the drivers that I installed? Obviously a driver is upsetting my system to the point of BSOD. Weird how the damn thing doesn't tell you that you don't need to install the drivers on Vista systems.

@paraskhos: If all else fails, I will clean remove the drivers I installed and get the wired one instead.

I'll update here if either of the following works successfully:

A) Uninstalling the drivers that came from the installation CD of the WIRED CONTROLLER edition and using the WIRELESS edition without fail.

B) Uninstalling the drivers from the installation CD and plugging the WIRED CONTROLLER into a USB jack without a BSOD (the incidence would occur just seconds after doing so).FAILED

Thanks.

bluesteelMeGaSE

The BSOD occured after uninstallation of the drivers from the disc. However, two very similar (if not the same) BSODs happened within an hour after the latest BSOD incidence from trying to use the controller. I had recently got it serviced in a shop in town and it may have been connected.

I have since had my computer defaulted, wiped clean to the moment I first turned on my machine. I'm sure that there was software which was conflicting with the controller, or maybe even the USB port itself. I also hope it has nothing to do with SP2 for Vista.

If all else fails, I'll just get Logitech. At least they have a reputation.

@ Gog: Ah, should I just get rid of the drivers that I installed? Obviously a driver is upsetting my system to the point of BSOD. Weird how the damn thing doesn't tell you that you don't need to install the drivers on Vista systems.

@paraskhos: If all else fails, I will clean remove the drivers I installed and get the wired one instead.

I'll update here if either of the following works successfully:

A) Uninstalling the drivers that came from the installation CD of the WIRED CONTROLLER edition and using the WIRELESS edition without fail.

B) Uninstalling the drivers from the installation CD and plugging the WIRED CONTROLLER into a USB jack without a BSOD (the incidence would occur just seconds after doing so).

Thanks.

Hey all. Last night I installed the 360 controller made to run on Windows as per the installation instructions (install from the disc without the controller plugged in, finish successfully, then plug it in when the installer is done). After a few seconds of the controller lighting up and whatnot, the BSOD occured. No .sys or driver file was in question, so it was hard to pinpoint the exact conflict. However, when I booted up again with the controller still plugged in, the BSOD occured yet again. So I booted up again without the controller and there you have it, no BSOD. BUT, the 360 Statistics process that comes with the controller install crashed with a BEX I believe.

No updates seem to be available for the controller drivers. For those of you who enjoy it without problems on your machine, especially if it is Vista, how did you go about getting it to run without any problems? If you experienced the BSOD, what did you do to remedy the problem?

Danke

Well, I did what I said I'd do, and so far, there's no distortion occurring.

Last time I made any significant changes (updating the soundcard drivers), the problem seemed to have gone away for a while. As I said before, it had returned about 4 or 5 days afterwards.

I'll update this if the problem returns at all.

Well that's definitely not the case on my setup. Prior to the problem having begun, no settings had been changed.

It could be a simple glitch in the IDE controller and how it handles PIO. So I shall be doing this in a while and I'll report any changes, if possible. Realtek still hasn't gotten back to me. Can't be the speakers, though, just because of how the annoying problem occurs.

I've been having this problem myself for about 2 weeks now. I also have a Realtech HD Audio card on my machine, updated it when I detected the problem, and to no avail. Well, for a brief period of time after updating the card drivers, the problem seemed to have gone away. But it has since returned. It seems to occur during CPU intensive operations. I've pushed my machine to greater limits before, so I doubt it's that (perhaps some degradation is taking its toll after about 2 years of it? Who knows).

Refer to this webpage for some details: http://www.pcmech.com/article/how-to-fix-sound-distortion-when-pc-is-active/

Now I'm fairly certain that you would need to uninstall the primary (first in the list) IDE controller rather than the secondary. However, try getting Speedfan and look at your CPU temperatures.

If you uninstall the IDE controller, you should reboot (if it doesn't task you to reboot on its own) and the IDE controller will be re-detected upon startup. As was reported by many commentators on the article, they've had the same or similar problem to ours and they've all seemed to have pointed out success.

If none of this helps, try the way I tried and email the PC parts technical support from RealTek and hopefully you'll get a response. I haven't yet myself but who knows how long it'll take?

Appreciated,

Twisted

One arouses you and makes you feel loved (which you must return, hopefully, you abusive jerks), while the other provides entertainment and stimulates your visual senses. Oh wait, a girl does both of those too.

So I think you know which one takes the cake. Nice joke topic btw.

Almost done downloading it myself. My friend gave me the link to it and he made quite a connection with the game...to Diablo 3.

That probably affirms itself somewhat since the game was developed by the team that formerly made up Blizzard North.