Sound card gone

[Chad Harris]

I strongly agree Michael. It's not your imagination. A lot of companies
are failing miserably at this point in time with no excuse whatsoever.

CH

 

[Dennis Pack]

John:
I don't have an answer on how to get your sound card recognized
again. I got a late start today because I had 2 doctors appointments this
morning, no bad news, looks like back to work mid-March. The USA and U.K.
sites weren't available so I downloaded the updated beta drivers from the
Australian site. Currently I'm using the X-Fi driver 2.13.001 dated
12/28/2006, driver ID 6.0.1.1261. The updated Audigy 2zs driver that I
downloaded 2.12.001 dated 1/7/2007, driver ID 6.0.0.1241. I updated to the
new beta driver through device manager, after rebooting there were conflicts
with the Creative Audio Console and my sound wasn't right. I was lucky to be
able to roll-back to the X-Fi driver. Just a thought on my part is to scrap
the Creative beta drivers and use the X-Fi drivers until Creative
straightens out the mess. This is more of a headache than we had with
Creative drivers with x64. Have a great day.

 

[Dennis Pack]

John:
I didn't mention it but installing the new Creative beta driver gave
me my first BSOD that I didn't cause with Vista. The BSOD was so quick that
the system was rebooting in a blink. Glad it was on my test computer not my
production computer.

 

[John Barnes]

I'm using Vista 64 RC1 so I used the 64-bit drivers . I would be happy if
they just didn't work. They made my sound card invisible.

 

[John Barnes]

Guess I will try the X-Fi drivers this weekend if I can get Vista to
recognise that I have an installed sound card. It shows up in X64 so it is
physically available.
Now that I am back using X64 I had forgotten just how many features I had to
give up with switching to Vista. I may just leave Vista to the wife who
doesn't like sound anyway.

Glad your news was good, but sorry to hear you have had your back towork
date pushed back a month. I remember you have been anxious to get back.
Hope your voice is still holding up.

 

[Henry Jones]

Sound on a PC these days.... So overrated. What ever happend to just plain
work?

 

[John Barnes]

Resolution. I went back to uninstall programs to see if any Creative items
remained, and found one. I tried to uninstall it and received a missing inf
message. Decided to reinstall and then uninstall, but when I reinstalled
it, it worked. Still no sound card in Device Manager, but everything works.

 

[Guest]

John:
Did you not give my suggestion a try?
That might actually work.
Carlos

 

[John Barnes]

I was going to uninstall all the Creative program items first, and when I
had the missing .inf file message, I tried to reinstall to see if it would
exist to uninstall it. When I did the sound card started working. Since
it's not broken now, I am leaving well enough alone. Thanks for the
suggestion. I was getting ready to try it when it started working.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Well I was very fortunate because I just double clicked and installed the
new drivers for the Audigy every thing went well except when I rebooted the
sound came right on but I lost function of my wireless mouse. I then jacked
in a Usb mouse shut down and rebooted ,everything worked just fine. I was
prepared to reinstall my XP 2 if the new sound drivers failed to install. So
all went well...

 

[John Barnes]

Guess the sound is just too loud for the mouse. ) Glad it worked out.
Mine is working fine now, too.

 

[Dennis Pack]

John:
Glad to hear that your sound is working again.