soundblaster live 5.1 dell is about to die.

[Guest]

At one time i had this card operating well. always had to dl the driver from
creative. only thing i did was re-install xp and try to install the DL'd
driver. the comp recognizes the card when rebooting...but the driver
installation program tells me there is no creative device installed. again i
reboot....trying umpteen different combinations of doing things trying to
trick it......but to no avail. has n e 1 had a similar problem? does n e 1
have a solution/suggestion for me? thanks...........jeff





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[GHalleck]

At one time i had this card operating well. always had to dl the driver from
creative. only thing i did was re-install xp and try to install the DL'd
driver. the comp recognizes the card when rebooting...but the driver
installation program tells me there is no creative device installed. again i
reboot....trying umpteen different combinations of doing things trying to
trick it......but to no avail. has n e 1 had a similar problem? does n e 1
have a solution/suggestion for me? thanks...........jeff

Went to the Dell support site for the appropriate driver file?
What might have happened is that the current version from SBlstr
will no longer install into the Dell OEM version. Agreements end
between peripheral makers and OEM builders. But if you had kept
the original downloaded version, it should still install.