Asus Update won't install with X-Fi - some discoveries and possible new

First of all, there is a possible solution here: http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ery.id=0#M3940
To my discovery:
Up until now when I've reinstalled WinXP, I've always used the CD that came with my X-Fi Fatalty card to install drivers and software. Doing this, even when I updated drivers with the latest one from web, still made the Asus Update impossible to install, or impossible to run if installed before X-Fi.
The last time I reinstalled WinXP, I did NOT use the X-Fi CD, and did not install anything else but the drivers directly from the web. This time, NO problems at all with installing Asus Update or running it.
This leads me to believe that it is the X-Fi *software* that is the problem, not the X-Fi drivers, not Asus, not the other products.
So basically:
X-Fi Drivers + Software (without Mediasource installed)
and
X-Fi Drivers + Software (with Mediasource installed)
messes things up, but:
X-Fi Drivers (at least 5. drivers) as only install, no software from the CD installed
works perfectly.
Message Edited by KriFos on 2-22-2005 :4 AM

Makes sense to me since I have 2 partitions for my OS one is XP Home where I used the CD and the other is XP Pro 64bit where there were no drivers at release and can only use the update from the web. When I updated my BIOS for my ASUS A8N32-SLI board I had to do it in XP Pro 64 since it wouldn't run on XP home. Nice another fun issue with X-FI as if the crackling wasn't bad enough.

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