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The patch file resides on a pay site as well... the fix itself is not complicated since you have the CD, you don't need to download the ISO or extract it - you can just copy the files directly to your hard drive. Without being able to download the patch files and seeing what has been done, I cannot tell you whether it is worth doing or not. Sorry.
Hi - Thanks for the interest.
No, I haven't. I have tried all of your suggestions, including your most recent one regarding the driver disk. I also found a X-FI ISO CD online for the SB0460 and gave that a try (maybe my CD drive was reading bad I thought). I have also tried wiping all remnants of Creative software, including the registry and started from scratch with the disk. All with the card out then, put back in and reboot.
I have also had a RL friend with more experience than me try to help out for about 4 hrs the other day, in person. Same results for every single thing I/we have tried. Card sits in Sound, Video and game controllers as a Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM), which means the correct drivers are not being replaced, along with all the codec files with yellow !'s (which is probably another problem as well).
I can post image files of directories/devices tonight if you are feeling helpful. Other than that, I hope to have a different brand (RETAIL!) of card in hand by the end of the week to see if that will work. I don't really know what to expect.
Hi - onboard is a Realtek AC97.
I tried a retail ASUS Xonar D2 friend lent me last night and installed using drivers from CD. NO good. Same issues as the Creative card.
Yes - with new hardware wiz and all. After install of the CD and reboot it wa sitting in S,V & G Controllers with the good ol yellow exclamation just like the Creative card.
So you have a corrupt sound/os problem. Suggest you uninstall the creative stuff, remove the sound cards and do a repair install of xp, run the windows updates again, then try.
This was done already over the weekend. I should give it another try. Should I uninstall the vid card and board drivers too?Quote:
Suggest you uninstall the creative stuff, remove the sound cards and do a repair install of xp, run the windows updates again, then try.
hmmm there is definitely something borked with your install. Annoying as it is, can you back up, format and start again?
My friend and I discussed this - he is looking for his XP Pro disk as we are hesitant to try with the XP Home disk from Dell.
no, don't mix home and pro disks.
Why are you hesitant to use the dell disk?
Mostly because the reinstall didn't work and my friend's bias I guess.
What types of problems could we expect with a re-format and installation of the diff os? Similar issues with the OEM hardware installation?