X-Fi & 4 gig problems

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Hi, Have just installed another 2 gig off memory to my system now I have is a loud buzzing through the sound, have tried the sound card in a different pci slot, have updated the x-fi to the latest drivers, have even done a complete re-install of Vista but I still get this buzz.
The only way to stop the buzz is to take one of the memory stick out!!! 3 gig perfect 4 gig buzz??
Have looked on the Creative forum lots of people have this fault but no one has a fix yet, anyone here had this problem?? If so what was the fix.
Don’t really want to use the onboard sound would a different sound card kit the problem??
Thanks in-advance...
 
I was under the impression this only occured if you ran SLI?

Creative forums should be best place to get the answer tho :)
 
No i dont have sli,, the sound i have is more of a static buzz, may be this will help.
From what i have meen reading on the creative forum i will have to use the on-board sound or change the sound card to a Auzentech X-Meridian :mad:
 
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Which X-Fi do you have exactly as ive heard of problems with the exteme music and the extreme gamer ( not fatality ) with the 8800 series cards
 
i am researching this myself at the moment, there are some fixes that are working for some people, some of the time.

1. the drivers from the Official Creative Vista CD (availiable on some torrent sites) has the 30March drivers (2.13.0012) which are apparently the best for getting the damn thing working.

2. Some people report lowering their PCI latency to 64 in BIOS helps (if you have and can find this setting... can't find it on a 680i myself)

3. Try a different PCI slot, forces it to use a different IRQ. (in this day and age aswell!)

4. in your Device Manager, disable the card, restart, re-enable the card. Apparently this works, but you should disable it again before shutting down / restarting else the problem comes straight back!

Interestingly, most people have issues with the latest driver... the one that supposedly contains the fix, but it's the previous driver mentioned above that people have most success with.

good luck, let me know how you get on, and as i found all thsi out today i will test when i get home and also report back.
 
Junk said:
i am researching this myself at the moment, there are some fixes that are working for some people, some of the time.

1. the drivers from the Official Creative Vista CD (availiable on some torrent sites) has the 30March drivers (2.13.0012) which are apparently the best for getting the damn thing working.

2. Some people report lowering their PCI latency to 64 in BIOS helps (if you have and can find this setting... can't find it on a 680i myself)

3. Try a different PCI slot, forces it to use a different IRQ. (in this day and age aswell!)

4. in your Device Manager, disable the card, restart, re-enable the card. Apparently this works, but you should disable it again before shutting down / restarting else the problem comes straight back!

Interestingly, most people have issues with the latest driver... the one that supposedly contains the fix, but it's the previous driver mentioned above that people have most success with.

good luck, let me know how you get on, and as i found all thsi out today i will test when i get home and also report back.
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Hi

Have tried a different PCI slot, disabled and re-enabled the card still the same. Started with the old creative drivers and upgraded to the latest one's had the problem with both..

Have gone back to using the on board sound for the time being, until creative get a proper driver sorted.

Thanks for the advice and help..
 
I found just now that disabling *** card, then restarting.. then enabling once restarted makes it work, in most cases only for that session though (until next restart / shutdown)
 
I had the same problem with mine and its the pro elite just going with onboard at the minute. I'm never buying creative anything ever again, there drivers and support are rubbish.
 
Does this happen to everyone running 4Gb??

Best solution is to rip it out and flog it! Creative are a disgrace the way they've handled Vista, complaining about the HAL then releasing a workaround 6 months after the damn thing comes out. I hope people vote with their wallets and teach Creative a lesson - driver laziness is good for nobody.

Logitech are another company that don't want to support even slightly old products. They have no plans to release a working iTouch driver for Vista!!
 
same issues until they re-write the driver, but i here the Meridian is a fine, fine card. Better than the XFi. tempted myself.
 
I can now also confirm that for me that old driver works with an X-Fi XtremeMusic and 4Gb.

in vista, UNINSTALL the card from DEVICE MANAGER, selecting DELETE DRIVER SOFTWARE when it asks, then RESTART, and run the installer for :

SBXF_PCDVT_LB_2_13_0012 <<< only this version works, it is NOT the latest.

get it from here:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1594
(no, that's not a competitor)

note: if you don't delete the previous driver when asked to it wont work, if you try and install without previously uninstalling it wont work, and it's a good idea to do it while standing on your head :P

i am running nforce v15.00, and forceware 163.11 which i believe can make a difference to this.



in (slight) defence to creative, like all high end manufacturers, it was Microsoft that moved the goalposts. It's not a coincidence that all high end users are having trouble with vista and manufacturers are having trouble with drivers. But in fairness to us, the buggers should have swatted these bugs months ago.
 
robj20 said:
I had the same problem with mine and its the pro elite just going with onboard at the minute. I'm never buying creative anything ever again, there drivers and support are rubbish.
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I have to say after all this, regardless of what a great product the XtremeMusic is, I will think twice before using Creative again after all this hassle.

Their support doesnt even use the information on their own forums to help people, or add working fixes to their knowledgebase.

It'd call them ***s but i'd get banned!
 
Junk said:
I can now also confirm that for me that old driver works with an X-Fi XtremeMusic and 4Gb.

in vista, UNINSTALL the card from DEVICE MANAGER, selecting DELETE DRIVER SOFTWARE when it asks, then RESTART, and run the installer for :

SBXF_PCDVT_LB_2_13_0012 <<< only this version works, it is NOT the latest.

get it from here:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1594
(no, that's not a competitor)

note: if you don't delete the previous driver when asked to it wont work, if you try and install without previously uninstalling it wont work, and it's a good idea to do it while standing on your head :P

i am running nforce v15.00, and forceware 163.11 which i believe can make a difference to this.



in (slight) defence to creative, like all high end manufacturers, it was Microsoft that moved the goalposts. It's not a coincidence that all high end users are having trouble with vista and manufacturers are having trouble with drivers. But in fairness to us, the buggers should have swatted these bugs months ago.
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No matter what i do it wont install, it keeps saying a higher version was found, and yet iv uninstalled the old one and deleted everything to do with it.
 
I've seen this previously with Creative stuff. Have you tried cleansweep or driver cleaner?

not sure either will work on Vista 64 though ;(
 
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