UCyborg wrote on 2025-10-18, 13:04:

I had to reboot 2 days ago because Audigy drivers crapped themselves again. It happens fairly regularly that sometime after resuming from sleep sound gets all rattling. Usually fixable by going to Sound dialog and testing another sound setup, but this time, no application could play anything anymore. And the stupid driver isn't normally stoppable, if you try to disable it in Device Manager, it prompts for reboot.

These drivers were never really stable, weren't they?

I never put my machine to sleep. I've found them (Audigy RX drivers) to be fairly stable.

I've used that function since forever. I faintly remember using it on an old Pentium 233 MHz machine many years ago, it was called standby on Windows 98. Never really had serious issues with it, but I also didn't have Creative sound card in most PCs I used until now, so...though another driver for onboard NVIDIA Ethernet adapter which never had issues with power transitions has them (BSOD) with specific version of Windows 10.

This case is more odd since it happens when nothing is plugged to RJ-45 port and most of this computer's lifetime, the port was used. So who knows, maybe it would happen in the past, maybe it wouldn't, all I can say it's fine on this specific installation of Win11 23H2 while it's not on Win10 20H2.