Problems Installing Creative X-Fi Cards?

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Bought Xtreme Gamer 7.1 and installed it the other night. Drivers installed fine but no sound at all which was strange. Played around with Creative settings and I selected game mode - it took an enternity to change and then it suddenly came to life. However later that evening (3hrs or so) my pc just rebooted. When it came back up the card wasnt recognised. Reinstalled drivers but that crashes - tried drivers that came on CD and downloaded latest ones from Creative. Different driver installations but both still crash.

Have now reinstalled windows xp from scratch but same problem. Ive tried moving card to 2 different PCI slots with no success. Tried installing it before any other drivers and after everything else installed. No difference. Windows shows a "Multimedia Audio Controller" fitted but not working. Im pretty much stuck on options now and beginning to think the card is duff.

Any suggestions to try before I RMA it? If I had a spare machine Id try it in that. I do have vista running on another partition but Im a bit loathe to try it there as well in case it kills that like it did with XP.

Cheers,
Simon
 
Its a common problem with the nforce4 chipset. One of the fixes was updating to the latest bios on your motherboard.
 
Ah great that sucks. My bios should be pretty up to date as I had to update earlier this year when I stuck my X2 3800+ in. But that gives me something to go on and start searching Asus website for some help.

Cheers,
Simon
 
Hmm I had a look there but the installation problems go back to 2005 and the only real advice was to upgrade BIOS (Im already on lates 1014 for asus a8n-sli) and then send back to creative for a card with updated firmware. Well I think if this problem was in 2005 that the new cards would have latest firmware anyway - and mine has a heatsink which apparently means it does.

I upgraded nforce 4 drivers to 6.68 last night and that made no difference.

I submitted a help request on Creative.com but I dont expect much help. Im tempted to RMA it but if I get the same problem on a 2nd card it will be a lot harder to get a refund.

Long time since I encountered a problem as annoying as this.

Simon
 
Yup its annoying but unless you send the card back under the 7 day thingy an RMA might be refused as chabces are the card is fine it just dosent like your system.

I had exactly the same issue with the 650i board i had. But now i have a P35 board the same X-Fi works fine.

One thing to note tho is the problems only affected certain X-Fi cards. Cards with X-RAM worked fine, so thats the Fatal1ty cards and the Elite pro
 
Well I would recommend to steer clear after my experiences. I think I may just use this as an additional excuse to go Quad Core and get a P35 board earlier :)

Simon
 
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