Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI Express

[Beach]

Hey mates,


Today I bought and installed a new sound card. Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI Express. More information about the card can be found here:

Creative Labs Online Store (Europe) | Sound Blaster | Buy Creative PCI Express X-Fi Xtreme Audio

Anyway, this card is a little bit weird because it has line-in and microphone in one port.

I read a costomer review from the internet:

Pros: Everything on this card works. EAX, Open AL, I cant think of something that doesnt work.

Cons: The mic does not work at first yes we know, theres a reason why though. read below to everyone having problems with this. i had this problem too!!

Other Thoughts: You need to install the drivers that come on the cd, or on the creative website. once you have creatives programs install, you need to go in and switch the Line in over to Microphone. Creative allows you to do that, its something that comes with The software that they bundle. then you just have to make sure it doesnt start up with your computer and you are good to use your mic now.

Now the problem is that when I connect my mic it detects it as a line-in thingy and says microphone not connected. Now, I'm trying to find out how to switch from line in over to microphone?

Can anyone help me do that? I have windows 7 ultimate.


And I don't know if its anyone connected to it I hear and see that others who have Creative's X-Fi have some kind of "What U hear" thing also? I don't see it anywhere :/ I have the latest drivers and some creative applications installed


Thanks

 

[Beach]

Anyone? all I need to know is how to switch from line-in to microphone.

 

[fireberd]

What happens if you select "What You Hear" as the "Recording" device in the Sound panel, in the Control Panel? I looked at mine and the rear mic is listed as "unavailable".

 

[Beach]

Well, that's the thing. I don't have What U hear option available. I have "Microphone FP" ; "Line-in" and "Digital Audio (S/PDIF)" and I have both show disabled devices and show not allowed devices on.

 

[fireberd]

Uninstall the SoundBlaster in the Device Manager (DO NOT uninstall the Drivers) and then restart the PC and when Windows starts it should detect and reinstall the sound card. This may fix it.

If not, reinstall the Creative drivers (get the latest drivers from the Creative site). You should have the What You Hear (what SoundBlaster calls the "System Mixer") and the other missing recording devices.

 

[Beach]

Did what you told me, no results.

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2151/dekstop.jpg

 

[Beach]

Anyone?

 

[mortimoto90]

go to the 'Creative Audio Control Panel'- FlexiJack tab, there you can choose your option.

There should be a Creative icon in the notifications near your clock.
or go to All Programs- Creative.

 

[stormy13]

Open this,



click on the little arrow and from the dropdown set it to microphone.

 

[Beach]

Yea I figure that would help IF I had that kind of a control panel

All I have is what I posted on my picture... And on that control panel there is no FlexiJack tab tag. Any ideas? I mean I did download the latest drivers and some other stuff...

 

[stormy13]

Try the modded driver set from #1 here,

SB P17X Series Support Pack 2.0 (07/31/2009) - Aud... - Creative Labs

 

[Beach]

"Setup is unable to detect a supported product on your system. Please ensure that your product is proberly installed before running this setup program. Setup will exit"

Also tried compatibilty mode with Vista and XP. Also tried to run it as an administrator. Nothing.

 

[Beach]

Any other ideas? All I want is to get my microphone to work.

Danke!

 

[Beach]

**BUMP**

 

[stormy13]

Give this a try,

Creative Worldwide Support

if it installs it will give you the audio console like the one I posted, and then hopefully you can configure the mic.

 

[Beach]

Thank You very much! It worked! Thank You!!!

Case closed.

 

[monkeys breath]

i have this same card. all you should have to do in install the card, install the drivers / software for vista from the disk that came with it, do not do the auto update, plugin the mic into the righthand plug, your speaker in the plug next to that. you should not have to make any adjustments other than the audio levels in the creative control counsel.

 

[Erwt]

Im very sorry to bump this topic.. but i got the same problem and the link that stormy13 gave doesn't work anymore.

Anyone that can give me that link?

// edit:

Found it.. but i get an error at launching the program.

It says that i dont have compattible audio-devices and that i need to close the program and click on OK. Can't do more then that.

 

[RonLane]

I just wanted to say thank you to Stormy 13. It is hard to believe that you have to install all the software just to change a setting from Line-in to Microphone. Your comment and illustration saved me a LOT of ADDITIONAL time. Finally finding the installation disk helped too.

 

[klila]

stormy13 i have problem with my sb card - probably i m doing sth WRONG, cause im completly green with any drivers. so i have win 7 x64 and when i'm installing Your drv there are errors : myimg.de - kostenloses Bilderhosting

could u guys tell me step by step what to install / uninstall to make the MIC ENABLE ?

edit: or that error : http://www.myimg.de/?img=Nowyobrazmapybitowejf4937.jpg

pls help.