X-Fi drivers uninstalling randomly

rotter023 · 9 Jan 2007 at 16:50

Hi,

I know a lot of people are suffering with this problem, but does anyone know what the actual problem is caused by and how to fix it.

Please dont say look on these forums or the creative ones as i have done and cant really see anyone posting an actual fix.

Any help is much appreciated.

Firegod · 10 Jan 2007 at 13:42

So what happens, I've not heard of this problem on here. Basically it will be working fine one day then say you switch the PC off, come back the next day, start-up and the sound drivers are missing?

brucey034 · 10 Jan 2007 at 21:39

Had the same problem, im running a gigabyte ds3 mobo, and since changing the bios to version f9 all is ok with my xtreme music.

The Deuce · 11 Jan 2007 at 10:14

i havent once been able to get creative software update to install anything, as soon as updates are downloaded it crashes!

i'm using X-Fi Extreme Music on a Gigabyte K8n-SLi Pro board with the latest bios updated TODAY!

dheyworth1981 · 11 Jan 2007 at 10:30

Mine does it every time i reboot....so when I have to reboot, I need to reboot twice for it to work.

Wrong place for it, but f9 bios do anything to a stable overclock?

Firegod · 11 Jan 2007 at 10:38

The Deuce said:
i havent once been able to get creative software update to install anything, as soon as updates are downloaded it crashes!

i'm using X-Fi Extreme Music on a Gigabyte K8n-SLi Pro board with the latest bios updated TODAY!

Can you run the install's manually? They are downloaded into C:\Program Files\Creative\Software Update

^At least, I think that's where they go (perhaps in the Cache folder in that directory).

brucey034 · 11 Jan 2007 at 16:26

F9 bios seems

so far

conuk · 11 Jan 2007 at 20:09

im getting this :

Asus K8v SE mobo ...

anybody got an idea where to start.... have a feeling this maybe just rubbish driver coding

conuk · 16 Jan 2007 at 19:38

ok (normally I hibernate) so dont get this problem untill a restart... anyways when selecting Mic in/Line in from the Creative panel ... then selecting Digital I/O seems to fix it.... strange.

Its as if it looses this setting and reverts back to analogue - even though it dont change via the panel.

bledd · 18 Jan 2007 at 15:10

conuk said:
ok (normally I hibernate) so dont get this problem untill a restart... anyways when selecting Mic in/Line in from the Creative panel ... then selecting Digital I/O seems to fix it.... strange.

Its as if it looses this setting and reverts back to analogue - even though it dont change via the panel.

yeah thats a problem in the current driver, the I/O panel gets disabled (although it appears enabled) after a restart

should def be fixed in the next release, creative are rubbish at releasing drivers quickly though :/

conuk · 18 Jan 2007 at 15:46

cool - at least its confirmed.... to be honest I didnt really have any problem with the onboard sound... just goes to show when you go and splash out on a `better` card..... whats the saying ... `if it aint broke` lol

Hopefully the`ll sort it in the next release

Cheers.