XFi Xtreme Music & Windows 10 problems!

luismenendez

luismenendez

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Hi all,

As my lenovo office computer doesn't have 5.1 sound for my speakers, I wanted to rescue an old X-Fi Xtreme music PCi which I didn't use for 6 years and plug it to system using Windows 10. The problem is the card is not seen in the system so when I try to install the drivers I get the message "set up is unable to detect a supported product on your system". I have disable the onboard sound but windows can't detect the sound card.

Any thoughts? I have seen there are many more folks having problems with old creative SB products and W10.

cheers
 
bremen1874 said:
Does it show in device manager? If it doesn't it isn't going to matter which set of drivers you try to use.
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the card doesn't show on the device manager (it states not sound device or something like that).

I tried other drivers but same message of not finding the sound card in the system!
 
I had the XFi sound card on a shelf for about 6 years so I think that killed it! I also had a SB 5.1 in a box on for 12 years and also windows doesn't see it (so I presume dead also). I friend told me that I could try to discharge them connecting to earth?

In the end I got an audigy2, which I had in a system I didn't turn on for 10 years, and it works okay on W10 (incredible how many computer parts I have around which I didn't sell when I upgraded! what a waste!)

Thanks :)
 
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