I have Avid Xpress Pro 5.7. Recently every time enter avid the audio on my computer resets itself to no sound. I have soundmax audio HD. I have 5 speakers but I only 2 background ones. Help please!

 Are any of your speakers USB connected? Avid does not support USB speakers at this time.

 what changed in the system when the problems started to occur? XPP doesnot do 5.1 surround. System specs (detailed!)?

no they go to a sound card

I'm not sure, I haven't really done anything different. I have had this version since it came out a year or so ago with the same speakers and they worked fine. Would updating my graphics card drivers cause it cause that's all I can think of.

Also my xpress pro is a student version if that helps. Thanks.

motherboard: Asus p5n32-E sli

graphics cad: nvidia gforce 8800

4 GB DDR2

Stock sound card (came with motherboard but is seperate)

Windows XP

Intell core 2 duo

logitech X-540 speakers

 If you are using anything other than the drivers specified in this version matrix, that could indeed be causing problems.

i have to be honest, I did download my driver from downloads.com, but I'm afraid by changing it will mess something else up.

Before I updated when i turned on my computer the monitor didn't always turn on with it, but since I updated the problem it has been almost nonexistent expcept a time here or there. But I will try, I need to know though will this make my driver an older version?

  Yes, it most likely will be an older driver version, but in the Avid world, newest is not necessarily the right one. If you deviate from the version matrix, other conflicts can occur within the Avid application.

My graphics card isn't mentioned on the list though of recomened cards. So I'm not sure that driver recomended is correct.

 If you can't find your card in the XPRO system requirements, you should consider replacing it.

no I'm not doing that, my card is way better then they recomend. I need for it 3-d modeling.

 Well, if everything is working normally when handling picture files, then you're left with the sound card itself. Many users here have had good luck with audigy.

sagelights:

no I'm not doing that, my card is way better then they recomend.

But if it isn't working with Avid, then it's not "way better" is it?  Avid relies on the openGL implementation in nVidia Quadro cards.  It also depends on the characteristics of specified nVidia drivers, which it supplies with each install.  Other nVidia cards can possibly be made to work, but very few ATI cards will work at all.

For what it's worth, very few 3D packages won't work with Quadro cards.  In fact because of the stability of Quadro's openGL they will usually perform better than with a gamer card, no matter how good it is.

everything works, it just resets my audio, that sounds more like a bug somewhere then the graphics itself. The fact is it was working fine before recently. Also it wasn't like it happened over night. It wasn't like I updated and this immediatly happened. it was a while ago I updated. Then recently this sound thing happened.

why would openGl be messing with my audio?

thank you Larry