Need help installing my sound card

mienboix2 said:

Hi.
Well i decided to use my old sound card that was on my XP computer and put it into my Windows 7 computer. The problem is when i tried to install it, i get this error:

My computer detected that my sound card is a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio so i tried to download the most recent one that supported windows 7. I havent used this sound card in 2-3 years and i dont have the disk to do a regular installment. When i dont put this sound card into my computer, there is sound that is ATI High Definition Audio Device. When i put the sound card into my computer, there is no sound at all. Can anyone help me on installing this sound card? Once again its a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio (thats what my computer detected it as).

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mienboix2 said:

@PooMan UK: yeah. thats the driver i downloaded but it wont let me install. I keep getting the same error.
@fireberd: yeah. I also tried those. Still got the same error.
@zigzag3143: i tried to install it in compatibility mode. Still get the same error.
@steve-pressman: i just turned off the onboard sound card in the Bios, but i still get the same error.

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Aphelion said:

mienboix2 said:

@PooMan UK: yeah. thats the driver i downloaded but it wont let me install. I keep getting the same error.
@fireberd: yeah. I also tried those. Still got the same error.
@zigzag3143: i tried to install it in compatibility mode. Still get the same error.
@steve-pressman: i just turned off the onboard sound card in the Bios, but i still get the same error.

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I agree that it's probably not being detected, could well be a hardware incompatibility as in a direct address or IRQ error. At this point I don't -think- any driver will make a difference.

Is that a PCIe card? Do you have another slot to try it in?

Ap

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mienboix2 said:

Its a PCI card. My motherboard only has 1 slot to try it =/. How can i check to see what kind of soundcards are compatible with my motherboard?

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Aphelion said:

mienboix2 said:

Its a PCI card. My motherboard only has 1 slot to try it =/. How can i check to see what kind of soundcards are compatible with my motherboard?

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When you first installed it, did Win-7 give any indication at all that it was recognized?

Ap

p.s. do you have any other PCI slots used by other hardware?

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mienboix2 said:

Well after i put it into my motherboard, i turned on and then windows said it was trying to detect the driver, so it led me to the download link to download it. After downloading, i tried to install but got that error; nope. i do not have any other PCI slots used by other hardware. This is the only thing i ever putted inside my computer since i bought it.
p.s.
When i check device manager, under Other Devices, it lists Multimedia Audio Controller which has the yellow triangle "!" sign. When i check its properties, it says "the drivers for this device are not installed." Not sure if this has something to do w/ it or not. and it leads to the same download link as when i tried to install the sound card. So i guess it does has to do something with it.

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mienboix2 said:

@Aphelion: yeah. Thanks for your help. I finally found the issue. Because windows detected it as X-fi Xtreme Audio, i believed it and decided to dl those drivers. After i decided that these didnt work, i thought to myself that this must not be the right sound card. So i decided to recheck how my sound card looked like and now it matched the x-fi xtremegamer. I dl the most recent drive and now it works! Thanks for all your help once again!

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