Sound Blaster - Creative Sound Card Drivers

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Customer has just had a full hard drive wipe and reinstall by a reputable PC shop.
Now fully repatched to SP3.

Issue remaining is getting sound to work.

Ex MS MVP (me) doing final tweaks on box.

Where can I get drivers for this sound card?
SB Audigy 2 E800 Card.

No drivers from http://support.creative.com will work.

Tried auto-update, no joy, suggestions, tips, pointers appreciated.

Silj
 
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Customer has just had a full hard drive wipe and reinstall by a reputable PC shop.
Now fully repatched to SP3.

Issue remaining is getting sound to work.

Ex MS MVP (me) doing final tweaks on box.

Where can I get drivers for this sound card?
SB Audigy 2 E800 Card.

No drivers from http://support.creative.com will work.

Tried auto-update, no joy, suggestions, tips, pointers appreciated.

Silj
 
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Customer has just had a full hard drive wipe and reinstall by a reputable PC
shop.
Now fully repatched to SP3.

Issue remaining is getting sound to work.

Ex MS MVP (me) doing final tweaks on box.

Where can I get drivers for this sound card?
SB Audigy 2 E800 Card.

No drivers from http://support.creative.com will work.

Tried auto-update, no joy, suggestions, tips, pointers appreciated.

Silj
 
dadiOH wrote:
I'm assuming that the customer no longer has the install CD that came with
the card? Can you call up Windows Volume Control; i.e., is a mixer
installed?
Click to expand...

Yup, original installation CD's didn't work, there is something that is just not working.
Volume works, hisses though, at best.
When you say "mixer" - *define* please.

I'm beginning that the sound card has gone tit*s-up.

Silj
 
Customer has just had a full hard drive wipe and reinstall by a reputable PC shop.
Now fully repatched to SP3.
Issue remaining is getting sound to work.
Ex MS MVP (me) doing final tweaks on box.
Where can I get drivers for this sound card?
SB Audigy 2 E800 Card.
No drivers from http://support.creative.com will work.
Click to expand...

We need to see the list of what you have already
checked. E.g. most motherboards come with
Sound on Board, which means the BIOS has to
set this item OFF before a SB card will work.
(Que publishes good checklists in PC Help Desk
in a Box.)
 
siljaline said:
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Customer has just had a full hard drive wipe and reinstall by a
reputable PC shop.
Now fully repatched to SP3.

Issue remaining is getting sound to work.

Ex MS MVP (me) doing final tweaks on box.

Where can I get drivers for this sound card?
SB Audigy 2 E800 Card.

No drivers from http://support.creative.com will work.

Tried auto-update, no joy, suggestions, tips, pointers appreciated.
Click to expand...

I'm assuming that the customer no longer has the install CD that came with
the card? Can you call up Windows Volume Control; i.e., is a mixer
installed?

dadiOH
 
X-Post ~
Customer has just had a full hard drive wipe and reinstall by a reputablePC shop.
Now fully repatched to SP3.

Issue remaining is getting sound to work.

Ex MS MVP (me) doing final tweaks on box.

Where can I get drivers for this sound card?
SB Audigy 2 E800 Card.

No drivers fromhttp://support.creative.comwill work.

Tried auto-update, no joy, suggestions, tips, pointers appreciated.

Silj
Click to expand...

Have you reinstalled the motherboard chipset drivers? These may help.
 
smlunatick wrote:
<snip>
Have you reinstalled the motherboard chipset drivers? These may help.

Haven't ventured into the BIOS or MOBO yet, as this would be last-ditch.

Silj
 
smlunatick wrote:
<snip>
Have you reinstalled the motherboard chipset drivers? These may help.

Haven't ventured into the BIOS or MOBO yet, as this would be last-ditch.

Silj

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As was suggested earlier, now might be the time to check in BIOS to see if
on-board sound is enabled or not. I had to do a BIOS recovery a while back,
and it reset my on-board to enabled. It created havoc with my SB Live! USB
sound card. I can only imagine the conflicts the on-board sound would cause
with a PCI card.

SC Tom
 
Sometimes, you can find drivers on Creative's foreign websites that are
not shown on your local website. A product no longer supported in your
market may still be supported in a foreign market. Might be worth a try.
 
siljaline said:
dadiOH wrote:


Yup, original installation CD's didn't work, there is something that
is just not working.
Volume works, hisses though, at best.
When you say "mixer" - *define* please.
Click to expand...

I mean the Windows Volume Control applet...sndvol32.exe.

Been a while since I messed with sound but IIRC you can sit there and
install drivers all day but you won't get any sound - or the Windows Volume
Control applet - until the *sound card mixer* is installed. And you get
that from the card's install CD.

I have an old SB Live CD but can't run it because I don't have the card
installed. What you want is what's labled on that CD as "Creative Surround
Mixer". It *may* - I stress "may" - be the inf in the appropriate windows
version driver folder on the CD. In the case of WinXP and this particular
SB CD it may be wdma_emu.inf.

I *do* recall that the mixer need not be from Creative...I once has a 3rd
party one, worked fine. Sadly, I can't recall the name.

Sorry I can't be more precise, maybe you'll get greater detail from one of
these...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wdma_emu.inf&aq=f&oq=
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+get+sound+blaster+mixer

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I mean the Windows Volume Control applet...sndvol32.exe.

Been a while since I messed with sound but IIRC you can sit there and
install drivers all day but you won't get any sound - or the Windows Volume
Control applet - until the *sound card mixer* is installed. And you get
that from the card's install CD.

I have an old SB Live CD but can't run it because I don't have the card
installed. What you want is what's labled on that CD as "Creative Surround
Mixer". It *may* - I stress "may" - be the inf in the appropriate windows
version driver folder on the CD. In the case of WinXP and this particular
SB CD it may be wdma_emu.inf.

I *do* recall that the mixer need not be from Creative...I once has a 3rd
party one, worked fine. Sadly, I can't recall the name.

Sorry I can't be more precise, maybe you'll get greater detail from one of
these...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wdma_emu.inf&aq=f&oq=
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+get+sound+blaster+mixer
Click to expand...



Try this site, there are way better moded drivers around, I have used one
that works very nice with my Audigy 2 ZS

This site lists normal drivers


http://www.station-drivers.com/


Try this sites, there are way better moded drivers around, I have used one
that works very nice with my Audigy 2

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/69795/


Some other Info


http://www.tweakforce.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=290


http://fileforums.com/archive/index.php/t-81859.html



This is the site that I got my updated Drivers, Full CD's

http://nomoregoatsoup.wordpress.com/


But they work ok on XP..
 
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