Where to find alternate sound card drivers for Windows XP

Lonewolf54 · March 3rd, 2002, 09:31 PM

Does anyone know of anywhere other than Creative Labs where I can get drivers for Windows XP?

I have a Sound Blaster PCI 128 and it plays sound just fine in Windows 98SE but when I install Windows XP I get only garbled sounds when I try to play any audio file. The sound is fine when I use the ATI TV tuner though.

I have tried using the latest drivers from Creative labs for Windows XP with no change. I have tried relocating my sound card to 2 other PCI slots that I have free and got absolutely no change. It still gives me garbled sounds.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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FalcomPSX · March 3rd, 2002, 09:36 PM

might want to try windowsupdate

sometimes it has new drivers...

Lonewolf54 · March 3rd, 2002, 09:50 PM

Does anyone know of anywhere other than Creative Labs where I can get drivers for Windows XP?

I have a Sound Blaster PCI 128 and it plays sound just fine in Windows 98SE but when I install Windows XP I get only garbled sounds when I try to play any audio file. The sound is fine when I use the ATI TV tuner though.

I have tried using the latest drivers from Creative labs for Windows XP with no change. I have tried relocating my sound card to 2 other PCI slots that I have free and got absolutely no change. It still gives me garbled sounds.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Agent_Embryo · March 4th, 2002, 02:15 AM

I too would like to know this, since I experience similar problems with the same card in XP. I can play audio but my computer produces noises when the cpu or harddrive works.

storm2k · March 4th, 2002, 02:52 AM

that's weird... i have a live! card in 2k and it works fine with the 2k/xp drivers available on creative's site...

what chipset do you run your system on? if you're running something wiht a 686b southbridge, check out www.viahardware.com for a patch...

Lonewolf54 · March 4th, 2002, 03:05 AM

This is my current system:

CPU: AMD Athalon 1800+ 266MHz
Motherboard: ASUS A7V266
Memory: 512 MB DDRAM
Video Card: ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro (Rage 128 Pro)
Sound Card: Creative Labs PCI 128
Operating System: Windows 98SE

By the way the exact same thing happens if I install Windows 2K.

storm2k · March 4th, 2002, 03:09 AM

if you can, try shifting your soundcard two down from the agp slot... you might be having an irq conflict or another type of resource conflict with another piece of hardware that can be causing your problems. also make sure you have the latest bios for your board before installing 2k or xp...

Lonewolf54 · March 4th, 2002, 03:02 PM

I tried updating Windows XP and that too had no result.

FreakyOCR · March 4th, 2002, 03:07 PM

You might be outta luck. Creative RARELY releases drivers... took them untila fter the Audigy launch to fix the SB Live/686B issue... before that the drivers were from '99

You may have to wait a long time for creative to fix the problem.. IF they fix it..

I hate creative.

Lonewolf54 · March 4th, 2002, 03:12 PM

A friend of mine also mentioned the possibility that I might be having an irq conflict or another type of resource conflict with another piece of hardware and he too thought going to another slot might solve the problem. I tried relocating the sound card to the 2 other PCI slots that I have free and that produced absolutely no change.

The sound card is currently in a PCI slot and never was in the AGP slot since my ATI graphics card resides there.