Okay, here's my story

I'm the sad owner of two creative cards, the first one, which was the best one by the way, is an Audigy "player" edition, and the second one is an extigy.

What happened was as follows: my computer, a pentium III 1GHz old rig, with 512 SDRAM pc 133, and using a Gigabyte motherboard based on intel's i815EP chipset, and ATI radeon 7500 video card was running smoothly up to a few months ago, when the inevidable happened...after a stupid crash I had to reformat my machine, and reinstalled my OS, windows xp home edition, but the moment I did that the computer turned to a chinese Abacus?

It stopped identifying my sound card. after I had installed the card, the computer popped up a message telling me that it was not able to identify the card, or that the card was only a multimedia audio device. When I looked inside the device manager, I found another trouble. There under the Network adapters tab, was a new adapter symbol with the name IEEE 1394 network adapter and a yellow exclamation mark next to it.

After so many trials and errors, doctors and conjurers, I had to buy me a new sound card. And guess what? cause I'm a faithful follower of the creative occult I bought me a creative "Extigy" card :butt: ...WOW

I mean wow, its the same as any piece of crap 2 channel sound card that you can buy for...nothing, but with a price tag of almost $100, and a crackling sound.

Anyway, I saw a lot of success stories on this website, things like "my life was miserable and sad, but the moment I logged on here, I saw light by the end of the tunnel, which turned out to be the subway train".

So can anyone help a fellow audigy owner?

I truly wanna know how to get over this problem, my current configuration is like the one listed above except for new graphic card by gigabyte based on Geforce's 5700 GPU.

Regards to you all
Ashraf Mohammed