Installing new Creative Beta Drivers

[Rock]

I have an old Creative Audigy sound card in a P4 system with Vista Ultimate.
I had some problems installing the new Creative Beta Driver dated 1/12/07,
but was able to find a work around. Posting it here in case it helps
anyone.

The old Creative Beta driver expired and when it did on a reboot sound was
gone. I downloaded the new Beta driver, removed the audio console through
Control Panel / Programs and Features. Then from device manager I
uninstalled the Creative sound card device, rebooted, no sound as expected.
Right click Run as Administrator on the Creative Beta drivers installation
file. The install went without problems but no sound on reboot. Removing
the sound card device through device manager and reinstalling didn't help.

I did a system restore to a point on 1/10/07. When it rebooted to complete
the restore I entered the BIOS and changed the system date to 1/11/07 -
prior to the expiration of the old beta drivers. On login sound was back
with the old drivers. Then without uninstalling the old ones, I ran the new
beta driver install package. During the restart entered the BIOS, reset the
date to the current date, and sound was there after login.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Sounds like a lot of work I'm running RC1 I d/l the drivers to my temp file,
double clicked on them they installed ask me to restart I obliged. When the
reboot was done the system started and opened with window sound, the
driver installed with no issue except my wireless mouse would not work. I
jacked in a regular USB mouse restarted and everything was working..sound
and wireless mouse..

 

[Brian W]

I simply installed the new beta driver over the old one without removing any
programs or drivers first. Worked first time and is still working. Vista
32-bit RC2, Creative Audigy 2 ZS.

 

[Rock]

Sounds like a lot of work I'm running RC1 I d/l the drivers to my temp
file, double clicked on them they installed ask me to restart I obliged.
When the reboot was done the system started and opened with window
sound, the driver installed with no issue except my wireless mouse would
not work. I jacked in a regular USB mouse restarted and everything was
working..sound and wireless mouse..

"Rock" wrote

I understand it was a lot of work. I did it. I was not recommending it as
a first step way to install the drivers. But it was a resolution to a
problem where the first update of the drivers didn't work and there was no
sound. The issue was - how to recover from that problem.