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hickeybaski

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I have a X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatality Professional series sitting here not installed. I am wondering if it is worth popping in my new build (see below). I am currently using the boards sound. I have had some game freezes where the screen and game freeze, but the sound loops - like it is stuck. Didn't know if adding the sound card would help or just dork things up more (I have heard sound blaster has not done a good job with Vista drivers.)

Q9450
790i Ultra
9800GTX x2 (SLI)
4gb DDR3 1600 (2x2gb)
2 raptors (Raid 0) - OS/programs
2 1tb spinpoints (Raid 1) - Data
PC Power and Cooling Turbocool 1200
2X Sata DVD burners
Vista x64 Ultimate
 
Apparently the newer beta drivers recently released might be pretty good. I couldn't speak from experience. I know there is a history of compatibility issues with nForce chipsets and Creative sound cards, including the X-Fi and 780i; dunno if that applies to the X-Fi and the 790i though.

The sound loop you're getting when your system locks is going to happen regardless of your sound solution, though, if something else is causing it (Obviously if the crashes are caused by your onboard sound and you are no longer using it then it would be okay).

Since you already have the card you may as well install it.
 
Ok I disabled my onboard in the bios, uninstalled the realtek drivers, rebooted safe mode, ran driver cleaner, shut down, installed the card, booted into safe mode and installed the Daniel K drivers, shut down, plugged in speakers, and booted up -> No sound??

When i try to open the Audio Console to configure my speakers I get an error box that says

"The audio device supoorted by this application in not detected. The application will exit."

No conflicts in Device Manager - shows up as Creative SB X-fi

This is the file I downloaded says it is X-Fi 64bit Vista??

Anybody have any ideas??

UPDATE
I just went into the control panel and clicked on Sound - the X-fi came up, but it appears only the SPDIF is active and none of the other jacks are.

Any ideas?
 
Creative cards don't like sharing IRQ. try reseting your Mobo Bios. or moving the sound card to a different slot.
 
Reset the CMOs and nothing - can't move to different PCI slot - its in the only one I can get too.

Any other ideas?
 
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