Sound card recognized but no Multimedia Audio Controller

[Felecha]

The tech guy at work gave me a soundcard from the pile of used items - Creative SB0220 - that he said should work just fine. I put it in, booted up (XP Pro) and it found the card (called it a Creative SBLive! GamePort) but Device Manager says the Multimedia Audio Controller has no driver or is not configured.

I went to Creative but could not find a clue.

What is a Multimedia Audio Controller as opposed to a sound card.

I previously had an ancient ISA sound card that worked fine for sound but did not work with a mike under XP, so I figured this would be the answer. I mention that because there used to be an icon for Volume in the SysTray, which would get me to the window for adjusting volume with the slider thingies. That is not in the SysTray any more.

Is that the Multimedia Audio Controller?

 

[Farmer]

See if you can find the drivers. The Multimedia Audio Controller is part of the sound card, so you need drivers to run it (there are a lot of drivers that XP do not come with, esp. these old cards.)

 

[Felecha]

but where? There's no "Search" at Creative, and I've looked everywhere there that I can think of

 

[hsjC]

I googled "creative sb0220" and found out that it's actually live! 5.1.
So u can just go straight to www.creative.com, and click "support."
Pick the right region, language and all that, you should be able to
download the driver.

 

[Felecha]

I tried that earlier, and got what a lot of folks complaining on websites about Creative and XP have said - when I ran the exe for the driver, it unloaded all its files and then said that there was no Sound Blaster card on the machine. That really puzzles me. it's in Device manager, no yellow.

The card itself seems to be separate from the Multimedia Audio Controller, whatever that is. it's the controller that is yellow in Device Manager.

I expected the exe to overwrite whatever was already there but it couldnt even see the darn card!!!

 

[jjones]

Are you downloading the LiveDrvUni-Pack.exe and attempting to install that? If that's not working by clicking on the exe file, then just extract the files using WinRar or other compression tool. Go into Device Manager and try to install or update the driver through Properties when right-clicking on the device. Do everything in the installation manually so you can navigate to where you extracted the exe files and point it to the Win2k_XP folder of those files. If that doesn't work, try uninstalling the device and re-installing, following the same basic steps.

 

[Felecha]

When I extract the files the filenames go by really fast, but I caught a couple of them and Searched for them. Could not find them. There was nothing in the extracting window that told me where they would be going. So I follow your idea but I don't know where to find them now . . .