Type "devmgmt.msc" (without quotes) in the Start Search box of the Start
Menu. Press Enter. This will bring up Device Manager. Expand "Sound, video
and game controllers". Then right-click the device shown, Creative SB Audigy
(?), and choose Uninstall. This is where you will see the Confirm Device
Uninstall dialog box. Then select the "Delete the driver software for this
device" option. Restart your computer. Ignore the Windows New Hardware
found Wizard if it tries to install a driver, upon reboot. Let it do its
thing. The new driver that Windows tries to install probably won't work, but
that doesn't matter. Just continue on, now, with the section "To reinstall
the driver, do the following:" in my previous post, that is,
To reinstall the driver, do the following:
1.. Double-click the SBAXVSD_PCDRV_LB_2_12_0001.exe file.
2.. When the message You must restart your computer to apply these changes
appears, click the Restart LATER button.
3.. Follow the instructions on the screen.
"ch0ke" <ch0ke@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> To Dean Dean, yes I did download SBAXVSD_PCDRV_LB_2_12_0002.exe from the
> official creative site.
> Now that I look at it I skipped out thus step on un installation -
> 5.. From the the Confirm Device Uninstall dialog box, select the Delete
> the
> driver software for this device option.
> Note: This check box MUST be selected to avoid reinstallation issues.
>
> Other than that there are no entries of creative in Programs and Features,
> I
> have even used Driver Cleaner.NET to try and rid myself of all Creative
> drivers.
> Now because I skipped that step what can I do to fix it?