X-FI Vista BSOD

[DDave]

So I received my X-FI Xtreme Gamer today and halfway through the installation of the latest 32bit Vista drivers I get my first ever Vista BSOD

I then booted up in safe mode and vista then continued to apparently successfully install the drivers. Upon reboot I'm greeted with another nice BSOD just after post.

So basically I'm sitting here typing this in safe mode wondering if anyone knows of any decent (lol creative) working drivers for 32bit Vista or if you have had similar problems.

 

[ScottiB]

silly question but what makes you think it is the drivers?

Creative drivers may not be the most rock solid, bug free wonders of coding on the planet but they don't usually cause BSOD's during installation.

 

[DDave]

I think it's the drivers as windows works fine without any installed.

 

[DirtyJester]

I think there was an issue for some people that had 4gb of ram installed .... could you post some more detail of your setup ....

 

[SixDemons]

the best version are the xxx.04 drivers... they solve the 4gb vista x64 problem.... I use this without a problem....

Creative is shedule to release a new driver set in a few weeks...

 

[MeatLoaf]

What motherboard do you have?

There are some problems with nforce 4 and 680i boards but apparently the 680i problems are fixed

 

[lord filbuster]

i get this with my xfi, either try updating the motherboard bios, or changing which irq the card uses, i hear it doesnt like sharing resources. if the bsod code was 0x7 something, it might be the same problem, i think one of the onboard things uses the same irq setting.

 

[DDave]

The comp it's in is a:

Asus A8N-SLI Premium
A64 3700+
2GB Corsair PC3200 LL
ATI X850XT
Windows Vista 32bit

I'll try updating the mobo bios once I can get the Asus site to work.

 

[DDave]

After a bios update and a change of PCI slots I have finally managed to get sound without any blue screens (so far).

Now the new problem is whenever I try to open the Creative Audio Console I get the error message "the audio device supported by this application is not detected" and closes, this is kind of weird as the sound works fine... I also cannot get my mic to work, it shows up as currently unavailable in the sound properties in Control Panel.