Audigy 2 on Win x64 . NOT FOUND!!

Hi
I have an Audigy 2 and it works fine on Win XP Pro.
However when I want to install latest drivers on Win XP x64, setup says it can't find the card. lol
What's wrong or what am I doing wrong?
I have latest NForce drivers and latest bios. MB: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum. 2 Gb 3200 DDR Kingston (4x52), GForce FX660 256 Mb.
Could anyone help me, please?
Thanks

D/L this driver http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...32-64-whql.exe
Open it up with WinRar and then go to WDM/common and 64.
Extract this to your desktop and then try to force it in Dev Man.
IF that fails then open up again and go to surrport/64 and use the CTzapxx.
Hope that hel
ps.
Message Edited by xmn on 09-07-2005 0:56 AM

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    and now i had the two issues described above and had to find a solution myself because the support pages dont help at all. sure you can say i should have thought of a heat problem but all important components are watercooled (even the north bridge) and i had some good airflow in general, but not around the sound card. and who knows that the audigy is that sensiti've to heat and that a sound card even gets hot at all. i've never heard of sound card cooling... i'm not that disappointed about the quality of the hardware because it is ok imo, but with the horrible lack of quality of the support and the buggy driver installation. hey, you get free advice by your customers, think about that. they tell you by themselves what the problem is and what they think may cause it. sure many posts are just flames but you should take ppl here more seriously. and if other manufacturers are to blame then put a list together like: msi k8n neo2 platinum - in this case upgrade to bios .2 or in that case install this or turn on/off that.
    alright, i hope anyone can use this information. sorry for the length but i wanted to describe things as precisely as necessary. cheers from austria.
    (edit: a typo)Message Edited by Temujin666 on 0-05-2005 03:49 AM

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