Sound Blaster Audigy

[Zerolife]

seems a lot of people are having issues with the sound blaster audigy cards, me included. Im dual bootin windows 7 and XP, on windows XP my sound card works and everything, when i boot in windows 7, dosnt even detect my card. I have the driver i need to get it to work, its just not detecting it to begin with. Anyone have any suggestion to get it to work?

 

[zigzag3143]

seems a lot of people are having issues with the sound blaster audigy cards, me included. Im dual bootin windows 7 and XP, on windows XP my sound card works and everything, when i boot in windows 7, dosnt even detect my card. I have the driver i need to get it to work, its just not detecting it to begin with. Anyone have any suggestion to get it to work?

What driver are you using?

Ken

 

[stormy13]

And which Audigy?

 

[zigzag3143]

seems a lot of people are having issues with the sound blaster audigy cards, me included. Im dual bootin windows 7 and XP, on windows XP my sound card works and everything, when i boot in windows 7, dosnt even detect my card. I have the driver i need to get it to work, its just not detecting it to begin with. Anyone have any suggestion to get it to work?

BTW

we could use your system specs.

Ken

 

[Zerolife]

im pretty sure my sound card is just Sound Blaster Audigy, when i looked it up on the creative site, thats what it was called. I just downloaded the newest driver straight from creative, supposed to be compadible with windows 7, atleast thats what they claim

not sure what specs ya want so could you be more specific? sorry, new to the forum lol

 

[stormy13]

Reason for asking which Audigy is that there are two completely different drivers,

- one is for the Audigy 1, 2 and 4 series of cards

- one is for the Audigy SE/DE/LS/Value series of cards, and has about as much relation to the ones above as apples to oranges.

and one will not work with the other.

not sure what specs ya want so could you be more specific?

Computer specs; as in make and model if something like a Dell or HP, or list of components if custom built.

 

[ten]

I'm using Sound Blaster Audigy and using the drivers for XP just fine. I tried their latest download which lists Windows 7 but I think that driver package may be for more that one type of card. I got no sound with those. I also tried the Vista ones but they wouldn't install.

If you look at their Windows 7 driver availability chart, the driver for the plain Audigy is TBC (to be confirmed)

 

[Zerolife]

motherboard: MSI Amethyst-M
cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3500+
RAM: 1.5 gb DDR
exact sound card: Creative Audigy SE (SB0570) Sound Card

thats probably all that will be needed, rest is just video card and stuff ,that works.

my problem is that windows 7 wont even detect the card being inserted tho, i dont think having the right driver will fix that really, idk tho i could be wrong.

thats for being patient with me lol

 

[stormy13]

In Device manager, is there under Unknown is there a multimedia device showing?

Also one reason for it not detecting the card can be down to having an unsupported chipset on the motherboard (ATI RS482), and using whatever Windows installed for chipset drivers.

 

[Zerolife]

well it does show an unnamed multimedia device, but thats my broken internal sound card, whoops. It could possibly be my sound blaster, but how would i make it figure that out lol

idk much about chipsets, anyway i could fix that in windows 7? the sound card works in xp, im actually using it right now lol, if that means anything that would help u figure otu how to fix it lol

 

[stormy13]

but how would i make it figure that out

A quick check in the bios, and make sure that the onboard audio is disabled.

Just in case this is the driver you need,

Creative Sound Blaster audio driver 1.04.0090

After downloading use something like Winrar to extract the downloaded file. Once extracted open Device Manager, go to the multimedia device, right click on select "Update driver". Then,

1. select Browse my computer
2. select "Let me pick'
3. click on "have disk"
4. click on Browse and find the extracted folder and point it to the folder that contains p17.inf, will look like this,

SB24_PCDRV_LB_1_04_0090\Drivers\vista

Assuming the unknown multimedia controller is your Audigy that should get the driver installed. Give it a try and please report back whether it worked or not.

 

[Zerolife]

omfg, that worked, thanks so much, now ill probably never boot in xp tho lol

 

[stormy13]

Good to hear (no pun intended).

Up to you but if you want some of the apps to go with it you can give this a try,

SB P17X Series Support Pack 2.0 (07/31/2009) - AudigySE/Value/LS_Live24bit_X-Fi XtremeAudio_SB5.1VX - Sound Blaster - Creative Labs

It is based on the same driver you just installed, and comes with some of the apps from the X-Fi Xtreme Audio (which is basically identical to your card).

 

[Barnfly]

How to fix your problem

hi

I had the same problem of my creative soundblaster not being seen in Windows 7.

What I did was
1. Go into Bios and disable onboard sound card
2. Shut down and power off your computer.
3. Take out the sound blaster, plug in the power and reboot your computer without the soundblaster card in.
4. Shut down your computer and take out power cable and then reinsert your sound blaster.

It should then be detected by windows 7
Then install the latest drivers and software from Creative and it should work.

Hope this helps

 

[Twister]

will give these 2 solutions a go in a few days time

 

[mushroomboy]

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/16690-kx-audio-drivers-emu10k1.html

 

[Crispy]

Download these drivers Creative Worldwide Support I got a Audigy 2 ZS the only problem I have is with the mic not working.

 

[Twister]

but how would i make it figure that out

A quick check in the bios, and make sure that the onboard audio is disabled.

Just in case this is the driver you need,

Creative Sound Blaster audio driver 1.04.0090

After downloading use something like Winrar to extract the downloaded file. Once extracted open Device Manager, go to the multimedia device, right click on select "Update driver". Then,

1. select Browse my computer
2. select "Let me pick'
3. click on "have disk"
4. click on Browse and find the extracted folder and point it to the folder that contains p17.inf, will look like this,

SB24_PCDRV_LB_1_04_0090\Drivers\vista

Assuming the unknown multimedia controller is your Audigy that should get the driver installed. Give it a try and please report back whether it worked or not.

tried this today and it works, absolute legend.

the only thing is that 2 of the speakers sound a little bit crackly? i had this issue with xp on my old 5.1 surround set also, and now on W7 it does it with both my old and new set so maybe the sound card itself has a slight issue?