wtf Creative?

[Canai]

OK so today I decided to clean out and rebuild my comp due to dust / cat hair and such starting to coat the inside of the window. I rebuild the lower part of the comp and move my X-Fi down a slot to make for better airflow, since winter tis the season of overclocking

I put everything back together and lo and behold, the X-Fi no longer functions! hooray! AND the reinstall thing that keeps popping up can't find any of the files it needs. I just downloaded the latest drivers (same version that I had before) and installed them, so hopefully after this restart (#3) everything will work.

WTF does moving the card to a different slot uninstall / disable it??

edit: after three more restarts, I have decided to completely remove everything Creative from my system, and start from scratch.

edit2: even after doing that, the Creative Console won't launch, it just shows up as a little gray box. I found a user made console switcher, which works fine, but everything Creative is still borked. Last Creative card I buy :roll:

 

[Skott]

Out of curiosity did you try putting it back in its original slot to see if it would work again?

 

[postmortemIA]

so what? nothing new, some shared IRQ PCI slots still have problems.

 

[OdiN]

Welcome to the world of Creative crap.

But moving the slot for pretty much any device will prompt the reinstall of device drivers, so that's "normal" - but Creative's drivers suck.

 

[postmortemIA]

MY audigy 2 would work after moving to a new slot.

 

[Quiksilver]

My Audigy2 ZS card requires a driver reinstall if I just pull it out and put it back into the same slot so I call shenanigans on you postmortemIA.

Now to fix your problem OP:
- Choose a PCI slot and keep it in there.
- Download: The latest drivers for the card, driver sweeper or driver cleaner (either of them is fine), Crap Cleaner.
- Now restart your computer into safe mode; Either by using the whole F8 on boot or by doing start > run > msconfig > boot.ini > /safeboot > okay.
- Once in safe mode uninstall previous driver VIA control panel and reboot if needed(stay in safe mode though sames were not done).
- Now run either driver sweeper or driver cleaner depending on which you downloaded, make sure to select 'Creative' and nothing else. After than Reboot normally.
- Next Run Crap Cleaner's registry scanner thing and fix all errors it finds and keeping scanning and fixing until it finds no more errors.
- Lastly, Install the latest drivers and reboot when asked.

Enjoy your sound again, if you do not get sound back post so.

 

[postmortemIA]

I have that audigy 2 for at least 4 yrs, don't you think i changed PCI slot just once? I changed at least 5 computers in that timeframe