no sound with SoundBlaster after XP

installed WinXP Pro with SP2. No longer get sound. Sound card is a Creative
Labs Sound Blaster Live Value on a Gateway P1.8GHz. Gateway has posted a
fix, but it is an older driver than the version with XP, and I can't
uninstall the newer XP version to reinstall the old version. I have tried
installing the older driver, but WinXP tells me that it already has the
latest driver (thanks, but it doesn't work!) and will not install the older
version. If i try to uninstall the newer XP driver, on reboot, WinXP promptly
reinstalls the latest driver, which does not work. How can i get rid of or
prevent the newer XP driver from installing so that i can install an older
driver that does work? TYVM.

have you went to the divice manager deleted the sound
card and then let xp refined it. I had a yellow question
mark on one of my sound items under divice manager and I
just deleted it and let xp refined it and had sound.
>-----Original Message-----
>installed WinXP Pro with SP2. No longer get sound. Sound
card is a Creative
>Labs Sound Blaster Live Value on a Gateway P1.8GHz.
Gateway has posted a
>fix, but it is an older driver than the version with XP,
and I can't
>uninstall the newer XP version to reinstall the old
version. I have tried
>installing the older driver, but WinXP tells me that it
already has the
>latest driver (thanks, but it doesn't work!) and will
not install the older
>version. If i try to uninstall the newer XP driver, on
reboot, WinXP promptly
>reinstalls the latest driver, which does not work. How
can i get rid of or
>prevent the newer XP driver from installing so that i
can install an older
>driver that does work? TYVM.
>.
>

would System Properties, Device Manager, properties of the soundcard, Driver
tab, "Rollback driver" be a possibility?
(reaching here)
george

"ooweee" <ooweee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CF460B3C-C6F5-4F7B-A9A5-355A0F1D7748@microsoft.com...
> installed WinXP Pro with SP2. No longer get sound. Sound card is a
> Creative
> Labs Sound Blaster Live Value on a Gateway P1.8GHz. Gateway has posted a
> fix, but it is an older driver than the version with XP, and I can't
> uninstall the newer XP version to reinstall the old version. I have tried
> installing the older driver, but WinXP tells me that it already has the
> latest driver (thanks, but it doesn't work!) and will not install the
> older
> version. If i try to uninstall the newer XP driver, on reboot, WinXP
> promptly
> reinstalls the latest driver, which does not work. How can i get rid of or
> prevent the newer XP driver from installing so that i can install an older
> driver that does work? TYVM.