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Gallstaff - Sep 15, 2003

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		Gallstaff	Sep 15, 2003
		I accidently lost my driver cd for my soundblaster live 5.1 I Just got and I need to download some driver action becuae I need sound. I tried em from creative's site but it doesnt list just a normal 5.1 it has all these different kinds. On the card itself it says digital but the digital one on their site says (dell) next to it. I've looked in other places but I just cant find a dirver that will recoginize my card. DO you guys know where I can get them or what I should do?

		a-dac	Sep 16, 2003
		Any Soundblaster 5.1 driver should work fine.

		Gallstaff	Sep 16, 2003
		They don't.... Any suggestions? It says no soundblaster can be found but i know that I have it installed the right way cause it comes up under add/remove hardware.

		antime	Sep 16, 2003
		A pound of concrete and a deep lake comes to mind.

		racketboy	Sep 16, 2003
		did you look on the card itself for the model # or anything? that might help. I would think XP would have it's own driver.

		Gallstaff	Sep 16, 2003
		I'm on 2K...

		Scared0o0Rabbit	Sep 16, 2003
		Creatives drivers suck. I don't know of an alternative though, except maybe to buy a newer sound card. the 5.1's are several years old now. You might try the game surround fortissimo 7.1... it's not too much money, it's 7.1, and I think it sounds better than my audigy did.

		racketboy	Sep 16, 2003
		I just got a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz at CompUSA on sale for $40 (1/2 off). Although Circuit City has a rebate. "Supposedly" you can get CC to pricematch CompUSA and then get the rebate and effectively get it for $6. I'm too lazy to do all that though

		Nadius	Sep 16, 2003
		how and when did this problem originate? did your pc just say, "sound card? what sound card?" when you started it up? This sounds like a problem with the card or pc, rather than the drivers to me. Try uninstalling the drivers completely, reseating the card, and installing any appropriate live 5.1 drivers on creative's webspace. I keep hearing good things about Turtle Beach cards.... maybe i should look into it.

		Gallstaff	Sep 16, 2003
		I dont even have any other drivers installed I dont have any sound at all. The thing wont even come up in the bios yet windows detects the creative SB LIVE! gameport. Odd...

		racketboy	Sep 16, 2003
		what's it say in Device Manager?

		Gallstaff	Sep 16, 2003
		it comes up twice as multimedia audio controller but it says I got no drivers for it (which is true) I guess the first one is onboard sound maybe and the second one is the card or whatever.

		racketboy	Sep 16, 2003
		ok -- did you try looking for a model # on the card yet? that will probably help find drivers. I've found some very obscure sound drivers by just googling the model # plus "windows 2000 drivers"

		Gallstaff	Sep 16, 2003
		I did and it is model number Sb0220 i've searched and they all say that no soundblaster device can be found on my computer and i have no idea why if it is installed coreectly and comes up in deice manager in some way or another.

		racketboy	Sep 16, 2003
		Try this...

		Gallstaff	Sep 16, 2003
		It says I need to download a set of files or something...?

		racketboy	Sep 16, 2003
		Originally posted by Gallstaff@Sep 16, 2003 @ 11:24 PM It says I need to download a set of files or something...? I don't know But it looks like it might work.

		Gallstaff	Sep 16, 2003
		No i'm telling you that it says i need to download something for it to work.

		mal	Sep 16, 2003
		Well go download 'something' already.

		Gallstaff	Sep 16, 2003
		argh no it says the necesary files are missing but it doesnt say what those files happen to be.

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