Voltageman Posted December 23, 2006 CID Share Posted December 23, 2006 Thanks for the nice words supersteven. I am sure Voltage will be glad to hear it. Plus Voltage has been upgraded to Sophist Member for his hard work and contributions to the site as well as his friendly and positive personality. I just noticed this... Thanks for the Ok it didn't have anything about my LAN driver, but it didn't like my SATA controller one and updated that. Hopefully this helps. And yeah, this site is amazing. It's the only tech forum I've been to where people don't get yelled at to search for old topics when they have problems. You will get it eventually... If you haven't, you may also want to run a registry cleaner now that you have made changes.... Do a system restore point before cleaning.. If you don't have one, you can try http://www.ccleaner.com/download/ its a good free cleaner...(I am assuming you are using XP, and not a 64bit version) If you keep getting BSOD's, you may have a setting in bios that needs to be changed as well...Try the different drivers and see what happens.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersteven Posted December 25, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 BSODS are gone!! However, now my sound card drivers suddenly dissapeared won't install. The computer sees my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi as a "Multimedia Audio Controller". I tried reinstalling the drivers both with the CD Rom and off the Creative site and both the EXE installers either say they can't find the right device or they install the drivers but the sound card still isn't recognized. I tried to pull the driver config settings off the CD and installing them manually but the computer won't have that. I'm starting to get angry. I think I built a damn Ford Tempo. > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 25, 2006 CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 I think I built a damn Ford Tempo. > Make sure the Onboard Audio is disabled in BIOS, uninstall any soundblaster/creative drivers in the add/remove programs list, then uninstall the "Multimedia Audio Controller" using the device manager. Reboot, when windows detects the device, just hit cancel... Now, goto http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/softwareupdate.asp?nSUFlag=1&sDestUrl=http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/&hdAllProduct=1&LangID=1033&hdDspLangID=1033 and run the auto-update. It should detect the card...If not, try downloading the drivers from there, and install them. Try that, and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersteven Posted December 25, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 Make sure the Onboard Audio is disabled in BIOS, uninstall any soundblaster/creative drivers in the add/remove programs list, then uninstall the "Multimedia Audio Controller" using the device manager. Reboot, when windows detects the device, just hit cancel... Now, goto http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/softwareupdate.asp?nSUFlag=1&sDestUrl=http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/&hdAllProduct=1&LangID=1033&hdDspLangID=1033 and run the auto-update. It should detect the card...If not, try downloading the drivers from there, and install them. Try that, and see what happens. I guess this thing is faster than a Tempo, but still. I'm gonna try that right now. Merry Christmas too, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersteven Posted December 25, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 I ran it and it installed the Audio Console program, but the card still comes up as a Multimedia Audio Controller and it says the drivers aren't installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 25, 2006 CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 Hmmm.... I had a problem with my x-fi card before, and I had to move it to a different pci slot.... If you have an empty pci slot, you can try uninstalling the card(remove drivers in add/remove programs list, then uninstall in device manager). Turn off PC(pull the plug as well), and move the card to another pci slot. Then try reinstalling the drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersteven Posted December 25, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 Never even thought about that. I'll try that, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 25, 2006 CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 Never even thought about that. I'll try that, I can't remember what the problem was, but since I moved it to the different slot, I have not had any problems with it.. While you are going around getting all your drivers, you should save them all to a folder, and burn a CD so you have them for future use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersteven Posted December 25, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 Ok, I did that. Now Windows still recognizes it as that but none of the Creative installers detect it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 25, 2006 CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 Clean out all your temp files, and run the registry cleaner to get rid of the old references to the creative stuff, reboot, and try it again.. Does the Auto Update detect the card? What kind of Soundblaster card is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted December 25, 2006 CID Share Posted December 25, 2006 additional pci/pci express cards might share the same irq address as other devices, which are often reasons for bsod's - as someone already states, just try and switch slots if you can and see if that fixes the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersteven Posted December 26, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 26, 2006 I tried all those things and the autoupdate still doesn't recognize it. The card itself is a Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtrememusic. Windows still recognizes it as a Multimedia Audio Controller though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 26, 2006 CID Share Posted December 26, 2006 http://ask.americas.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=ww_english_add,U={B8F60310-DA4F-11D3-94F4-00500463020E},Company={CEAE216D-8719-4C00-AC9F-03BC258F7B70},d=1130251443648,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com,case=1712 Try that removal method...then run the auto update again. Do you happen to have another slot? Or perhaps try it back in the other slot... When did the soundcard cut out? Which drivers did you install last before you rebooted(and had this problem)? Also, if you have any other cards in the pci slots, if you can, take them out, and try with just the soundcard, and see if it will install... Then put the other cards in one by one, and see if you are having an irq sharing problem. Edit: Also, remove any USB devices...Something is sharing the irq address, and probably doesn't share very well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersteven Posted December 28, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 28, 2006 I used the removal method and the autoupdate still doesn't recognize it. It does the same thing in both slots. It cut out after I installed the SATA controller that the Microsoft Update wanted. The only other card I have is my PCI Express Radeon X1900. The only USB device is my mouse but I'll try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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