Win XP and Audigy? Help!!!

[sirfergy]

Hello,

I have windows xp professional and the creative labs audigy oem. The problem I am having is I cannot get the drivers installed. I tried the drivers on the CD and it hosed my system, requiring me to reinstall the OS. The drivers on their website wont install because it requires the sound card to be installed, but obviously it isn't.

Help!!!!

Thanks

 

[Brian48]

Run the Win2k installer from the CD. Do a custom install and only choose the AudioHQ and Mixer component (the Launcher is not compatible with WinXP). After you reboot, run the WinXP update from Creative.

Note, the last 95% of the install process takes a long time and may appear that system has hung. This is not the case. Just give it a few more minutes to finish.

Another thing to watch out for, if you've disabled ACPI under WinXP, make sure the firewire port is not sharing an IRQ with something it doesn't like.

 

[bacillus]

hmm, after you install the card & windows first detects it, you must cancel the windows search for drivers & autorun the cd to install creative software & drivers!

 

[sirfergy]

Well, the problem I have is that the CD doesn't have XP drivers. The drivers it tries to install are for 2K and hose the system completely.

 

[bacillus]

<< Well, the problem I have is that the CD doesn't have XP drivers. The drivers it tries to install are for 2K and hose the system completely. >>


that's odd!
on clean install of XP, I purposefully left out the soundcard & installed it later so that windows did't try to install its own drivers automatically then just autoran the audigy cd after cancelling windows search for drivers at install of card & everything installed fine in XP!

 

[Mem]

<< Well, the problem I have is that the CD doesn't have XP drivers. The drivers it tries to install are for 2K and hose the system completely. >>



Very weird,What I did was made sure I disabled on-board sound in bios,then I disabled both Midi port and game port address then installed the card and after when XP says new hardware detected and searches for drivers I hit cancel and just use the CD setup guide and take it from there.


I guess you could have a bad CD so I would phone CL and speak to somebody on technical support or if you know somebody else with a SB Audigy try their CD for setup.




<< on clean install of XP, I purposefully left out the soundcard & installed it later so that windows did't try to install its own drivers automatically then just autoran the audigy cd after cancelling windows search for drivers at install of card & everything installed fine in XP! >>



I did the same thing as well.

 

[Brian48]

Did you read my reply? The issue is not the Win2k drivers, which do work under WinXP. The problem is that the install process is hosing up before completing. The Audigy was released prior to WinXP and none of the included driver CD's have the updated installer for WinXP (which is not a big deal anyway).

 

[sandorski]

Download the XP drivers from Creative's website.