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Just check your BIOS as well to see if anyone has been playing about in there. Some of the settings can cause a reboot or startup.

I know this is going to sound a little out there but given that we have exhausted most other things, you could try hooking your drive up to another pc and try loading your os from there. If it loads correctly, you have established 2 things. 1, that its not your drive and 2, its not your disk...

I tend to agree with Ben. How old is the MOBO. There were a batch of capacitors that were like that and shiped to a wide range of makers. Yours could be one of them but I doubt it. From memory I think they even made mention of that on a computer show on the TV.

Hmmmmmm sounds like faulty pots to me

Given that the install is failing ay one particular point does narrow this down quite a bit. Most commonly if it were a memory problem the address would be consistant. Do you have more than one stick of ram? I would put money on it that your drive isnt the problem or the cable to it. It could be...

No problem TK, In reply to your question " will a failing battery cause BSoD's like the one explained above with setupdd.sys?" yes. not personally but I had this mentioned to me a while ago. The trusty batery is one of the least thought about items in the pc that can and does cause some very...

I dont think you will find its your drive or memory.

Just a quick question here, how old are is/are the system/s? You may consider your cmos battery as being dead or on its way out. Cheers Brett

It could be Outlook if its set to open up on startup and connect but there is nothing mentioned about outlook running. Does this happen consistantly right on a certain time period or randomly. If its random and the connection isnt ADSL, I would start thinking about call waiting on the phone...

Thanks for that. May come in usefull later down the track. Could spawn another thread from this. I still think it had to do with your keyboard input and maybe something in Office was causing a conflict with your keyboard till you updated. Could have been a corrupted input device file. Any comments?

What prompted you to do a update for office? Was this incidental, meaning that something was happening that gave you a clue that your problems were to do with office? If so, what was it? I think we all would like to know thanks. Cheers Brett

Its the Audigy zs 2.

I would agree with Jimp56. Sounds like an input device problem. Try replacing the keyboard with a different keyboard and same with your mouse. Also, you say its letting out a long beep. What BIOS do you have? Check the beep cods with the bios manufacturer as this should tell you what the long...

I believe that you dont have to hook up your SPDIF as the signal from the DVD drive is in digital form anyway. Try turning off the spdif on your card and turn on digital output in your audigy utilitys. I have the Audigy as well and in the setup, I simply told it that I wanted 5.1 output and it...

I would normaly agree with Crowley16 on his philosophy; however, it is always a good thing to keep your drivers and bios up to date, especialy if your intending to get every bit out of your system and sit on the edge. It can be a double edged sward though. The choice is yours. My advice is to...

I have this sound card and the origional cd`s that came with it. Where are you in the world. Will burn you a copy of it if you wish. Brett

Are you using a USB 1 or USB 2 Port?

Having no backup of your BIOS isnt a good thing as this situation is one of the many reasons we tell people to backup befor doing a flash or upgrade or make any significant change to your system. You surely would have been given the option to make a backup of your BIOS prior to flashing your...

I appologise, I misread the question. Yes it is but only if you have the origional BIOS that you should have saved during your BIOS update. Just load that one as if it were another update. Thanks GOAOZ, was thinking along a different line. Huge day :)

I am assuming you are familiar with flashing because you say you want to take it back to the origional factory defaults. Probably the easyest way is to turn your power off at the socket and remove the battery on your motherboard for about 10 seconds, then replace it. That should remove the...