Vista - Re: Creative Audigy 2 Platinum Ex

Hey Oscar:

Well for all of those that are just as frustrated as I was here is a bit of
relief.
I spent 6 hours trying to fight this system and as all great discoveries
this just came as if from heaven.
I am using an an HP Pavillion and decided to install an Audigy 2 Value
soundcard.
At first after finishing my installation of Vista 64 it notified me that
there was no driver for my sound card.
I went to the Creative site and downloaded their beta driver for Vista.
I ran the Vista 64 and it did not complete saying that my software was not
supported by it. It seems that it was designed for the beta 1 of Vista and
they have to update it.
After a while I decided to see if I could reinstall the XP 64 driver and all
went great with the exception that there was no sound coming out . I knew
that something was going right because it asked me if I wanted to re-install
the driver and also at the end of the installation the speaker icon had some
green colored waves coming out of it.
Frustrated I decided to re-install the Vista 64 driver on top of the XP
drivers and after two attempts voila great sound!!!
Sound was coming out of it as if by a miracle. …old windows theme I must
warn you! The sound is of good quality. But there is only one thing and that
is my microphone is not working right. Does anyone have a suggestion for this
problem?
Also to let you know I have not been able to install all of the creative
applications so I decided to un-install them.
I want to take advantage of the speech recognition software built in. It
worked for me before I hope they have not messed with it too much
I hope that this helps some people out there.
Now if I could figure out how to import my Outlook contacts, the import
feature is not working for me.

Hector


"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote:

> I guess if they don't install, you'll just have to wait until another driver
> gets released.
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> --- Original message follows ---
> "Oscar Thornell" <nospam@internet.com> wrote in message
> newsE0AFC92-4AFD-4FBF-BE6C-DC4F4984E70A@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Any knows how to install drivers for this soundblaster?
> > The November CTP drivers available from Creative does not work on the
> > latest CTP (build 5308).
> >
> > Regards
> > /Oscar
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