Upgraded to W7. No sound. Creative Xfi card. Help!

[rocketdescends]

I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit. My sound card is a Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WMD). I am not sure if that is the actual model name. That is the name that the device manager gives me. RE-installing drivers from Creative doesn't help. Tried the Daniel_K drivers and nothing seems to help. It just seems that Windows 7 is not even recognizing that there is a card installed at all! I have a Dell XPS 600 Pentium D 3.20 ghz 2 gig ram. I have spent several hours trying to figure this out. Please help!

 

[torrentg]

Hi.

In device manager, right click on the card. Properties. Details tab. Change dropdown to hardware ids. Copy and paste the results here and I'll see what I can do.

Please no screenshot as alternative. That only makes it more difficult for me. Thanks.

 

[rocketdescends]

hi.

In device manager, right click on the card. Properties. Details tab. Change dropdown to hardware ids. Copy and paste the results here and i'll see what i can do.

Please no screenshot as alternative. That only makes it more difficult for me. Thanks.

pci\ven_1102&dev_0005&subsys_10031102&rev_00
pci\ven_1102&dev_0005&subsys_10031102
pci\ven_1102&dev_0005&cc_040100
pci\ven_1102&dev_0005&cc_0401

 

[torrentg]

Alright. I made you a little something somethin because it's so old, it needed it.

Download this link and extract it to a folder.

Then, right click on the audio device in the device manager.

Update driver software. Browse my computer. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse.

Now navigate to wdma_emu.inf in the extracted folder

and double click on it. Click ok. Click next and let it install.

You can then right click the speaker icon in the system tray near the clock and go to playback devices to set it as you want. You can right click on any shown and then set it to show disconnected and disabled devices, too.

 

[rocketdescends]

Alright. I made you a little something somethin because it's so old, it needed it.

Download this link and extract it to a folder.

Then, right click on the audio device in the device manager.

Update driver software. Browse my computer. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse.

Now navigate to wdma_emu.inf in the extracted folder

and double click on it. Click ok. Click next and let it install.

You can then right click the speaker icon in the system tray near the clock and go to playback devices to set it as you want. You can right click on any shown and then set it to show disconnected and disabled devices, too.

The "update driver" button is greyed out. It will not let me access that.

 

[torrentg]

Heh heh, immediately after right clicking on it, left click update driver software.

 

[rocketdescends]

Heh heh, immediately after right clicking on it, left click update driver software.

Installed. Restarting computer now. I will let you know.

 

[rocketdescends]

The sound icon at on the system tray still has the red x by it. See attached picture. Says no devices are installed. I made sure to check off disabled devices too.

 

[torrentg]

How does it look in the device manager? It should have installed well as I made the .inf specific for your device. Can you post a screenshot of it and also the general tab too?

 

[rocketdescends]

How does it look in the device manager? It should have installed well as I made the .inf specific for your device. Can you post a screenshot of it and also the general tab too?

It says that the device cannot start.

 

[torrentg]

Alright. I guess the best things you can do at this point is to make sure the chipset drivers are the latest, even if you have to try out Vista ones from VIA (or whatever chipset the motherboard uses.)

And also, update the system bios to latest, then disable all unused ports like serial, parallel, floppy etc...

Then install the audio card driver again.

 

[rocketdescends]

Alright. I guess the best things you can do at this point is to make sure the chipset drivers are the latest, even if you have to try out Vista ones from VIA (or whatever chipset the motherboard uses.)

And also, update the system bios to latest, then disable all unused ports like serial, parallel, floppy etc...

Then install the audio card driver again.

Windows Update says all my drivers are up to date, but Driver Updater Pro says my drivers are out of date. Should I shell out the $30 for this software?

 

[torrentg]

Alright. I guess the best things you can do at this point is to make sure the chipset drivers are the latest, even if you have to try out Vista ones from VIA (or whatever chipset the motherboard uses.)

And also, update the system bios to latest, then disable all unused ports like serial, parallel, floppy etc...

Then install the audio card driver again.

Windows Update says all my drivers are up to date, but Driver Updater Pro says my drivers are out of date. Should I shell out the $30 for this software?

No way. Those programs can and do mess up Windows installs very quickly.

Your best bet is to find another manufacturer and motherboard that uses the same exact chipset. Then install the chipset drivers from them, for yours. If you find something like that and need help, let me know. Look for Vista ones.

 

[rocketdescends]

Alright. I guess the best things you can do at this point is to make sure the chipset drivers are the latest, even if you have to try out Vista ones from VIA (or whatever chipset the motherboard uses.)

And also, update the system bios to latest, then disable all unused ports like serial, parallel, floppy etc...

Then install the audio card driver again.

Windows Update says all my drivers are up to date, but Driver Updater Pro says my drivers are out of date. Should I shell out the $30 for this software?

No way. Those programs can and do mess up Windows installs very quickly.

Your best bet is to find another manufacturer and motherboard that uses the same exact chipset. Then install the chipset drivers from them, for yours. If you find something like that and need help, let me know. Look for Vista ones.

Going to the Dell website they don't even have Vista drivers for this old computer. I am at a loss on what to do. Should I buy a new card? Maybe this one is just too damn old. Could you suggest one? I play a lot of music and games. I know that I really need to invest in a new motherboard and a dual or quad core chip.

 

[torrentg]

Buying a new card is probably not going to help.

Doesn't the motherboard have onboard audio that you can enable in the bios?

Wait a second though....nForce4? That should work.

Try installing chipset drivers from here.

 

[rocketdescends]

Buying a new card is probably not going to help.

Doesn't the motherboard have onboard audio that you can enable in the bios?

Wait a second though....nForce4? That should work.

Try installing chipset drivers from here.

I installed those Nvidia drivers from that link. Btw that $30 program detected one less problem after those Nvidia drivers were installed. I am getting close to desperate and might buy it. The worse case scenario is I am out $30 and if it messes up my computer I can use do a system restore.

So anyways after installing those drivers I restarted then I reinstalled the audio driver you made for me and restarted. Nothing. Right now I deleted the entire driver. Dusted off my original Soundblaster Xfi Cd and starting from scratch.

 

[rocketdescends]

Buying a new card is probably not going to help.

Doesn't the motherboard have onboard audio that you can enable in the bios?

Wait a second though....nForce4? That should work.

Try installing chipset drivers from here.

I installed those Nvidia drivers from that link. Btw that $30 program detected one less problem after those Nvidia drivers were installed. I am getting close to desperate and might buy it. The worse case scenario is I am out $30 and if it messes up my computer I can use do a system restore.

So anyways after installing those drivers I restarted then I reinstalled the audio driver you made for me and restarted. Nothing. Right now I deleted the entire driver. Dusted off my original Soundblaster Xfi Cd and starting from scratch.

Ok so after reinstalling the whole driver from my original soundblaster disc and then installing the audio driver you gave me nothing has changed. I am really desperate at this point. *sigh*

 

[Zidane24]

Looks like Creative has your driver...

Creative Worldwide Support > X-Fi XtremeMusic

First download link

 

[rocketdescends]

Looks like Creative has your driver...

Creative Worldwide Support > X-Fi XtremeMusic

First download link

IT WORKED! HOLY #$%@! it worked! It is weird how the drivers work when its not the card I have. THANKS! *falls over in exhaustion* XD +1 rep Zidane and torrentg.

 

[torrentg]

Awesome Zidane! +rep