Creative Sound Cards.

After using something like Driver Sweeper (or Driver Cleaner), more than I care to think about over the years. One reason I am loathe to recommend programs like that at all.

Gonz said:

Further to my mission to get this pesky card to work, on going to check the IRQ's of the graphics card and sound card i discovered that the sound card isn't showing up in the device manager anywhere, even though its working near enough fine in certain games?! I'm assuming that its going to be a windows reinstall for me to have any hope of getting this working

Ever heard of that happening before?

I had the same problem. I fixed the problem by swapping sound card to graphics card slot. Try it and see if it works or not :)

Well i reinstalled windows today but it hasn't changed anything Soundcard is now appearing in the device amnager at least.

Installed the nvidia chipset drivers first then installed the creative drivers before the graphics card but it made no odds. Sound card is using IRQ 19 and the graphics card is 18. Still getting the crackling in windows, won't play MP3's etc.

Anyone got any other suggestions i can try?

Latest Update available:

Release date : 12 Sep 11

File Name : XFTI_PCDRVBETA_US_2_17_0008B.exe
This download is a beta driver providing Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista® and Windows XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium series of audio devices. For more details, read the rest of the web release note.

Take note of the following:

• THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There is no technical support for this driver.
• We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.
• Users who are looking for stable drivers should wait for the final release. When this happens, user should install the latest Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium series driver available.

This download supports the following audio devices only:

• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Professional Series
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

Fixes:

• Minimized the issue of no audio playback on certain system configurations.

Known Issues:

• Audio stutters during the opening video for certain game titles while Dolby Digital® Live is enabled. This issue occurs on certain hardware and OS configurations only. More details and a workaround are available here.

Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista 32-bit with SP1, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 or Windows XP MCE 2004
• Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium series audio devices listed above

Notes:

• To install this driver
  
  1. Download the file onto your local hard disk.
  2. Double-click the downloaded file.
  3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Download

Code:

 http://support.creative.com/downloads/welcome.aspx?nDriverType=11#type_11

Who might think of the problem? The situation is next, when I connect the bluetooth headset and at the same time the creative sound card is connected I cannot hear a person while speaking on the skype. But the interesting part is that i can hear a music thru the headphone. Although the microphone works well and the listener can hear me.

Well, Heres something to stump you all.

Got an XFI fatal1ty, from a friend with no driver disc. Installed the PCI Card and I/O Module and windows found the Card etc, and tried to install drivers. As we all know that would never happen. SO i went to creative and got the latest driver package. What follows is a night and day of a complete farse of a card + install.

Everytime i load any driver to the card, When i restart the driver will be gone. And the only way to get the card to be registered is if i wipe the OS and reinstall windows. Put the card into another PC in the home. Perfect install no issues.

If the card installs, At times it will crash / restart / BSOD, then when i try to turn the PC back on it hangs after BIOS with a - flashing in the top corner. I have tried ALL drivers known to man. About to attempt an XP install to see how that goes. Bear in mind im on OS wipe number 13, and i HAVE tried Ccleaner etc to get rid of all the installed components and nothing changes.

Running, ASROCK KN7810D Motherboard, 8GB DDR2 Ram, ASUS GT420 1GB GFX Card, Belkin N1 Wireless card. 5x Sata HDD, 750W PSU, 1x Optical DVD Drive. The problem is atm, this is all going into a HTPC build as these are all my old parts. But it feels like a waste now its not working / causing more issues than i have ever had with a PC.

You have to make sure the drivers from windows update are not being installed at all. When you first install windows, disable auto updates from being installed (it asks you at the end of windows installation) and hide the update from within windows update when you manually run it.

Zahl said:

You have to make sure the drivers from windows update are not being installed at all. When you first install windows, disable auto updates from being installed (it asks you at the end of windows installation) and hide the update from within windows update when you manually run it.

As i stated they are not installing. windows update doesnt even find drivers.

Which chipset is that board using? I can find nothing about it