Audigy 2 value: No active mixer devices availa

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<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff3333 size=4>My Specs:
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff3333 size=4>Windows XP Pro
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff3333 size=4>SP (SP2 disables many of my App's)
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff3333 size=4>AMD Athlon XP 800+ .49 GHz
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff3333 size=4>52 mb Ram
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<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#6633cc size=5>Here is the problem. I purchased the Audigy 2 Value card, because I simply wanted to upgrade my sound capabilities.
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#6633cc size=5>I think that I am a pretty competent computer geek.
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#6633cc size=5>I've done all the uninstalling and deleting and registry cleaning, disabling the onboard sound chips in the Bios, and pretty much everything that Creative, and Microsoft say's need to be done when installing a new sound card.
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<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#cc66ff size=4>The problem is that everything in the system acknowledge's that there is a new sound card installed, but when you try to get sound or go into the Control panel to the "Sounds and Audio devices" No devices are shown thus I cannot manipulate volume, recording, midi etc.....
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<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#00cc33 size=5>I really hope that someone else has gone through this and now has a solution to this problem.
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<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#00cc33 size=5>Is it me, Is it the Card, or Is it in the system?
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#00cc33 size=5>I thank you all now for your wise advice in the future.
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<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#00cc33 size=5>Vondo333Message Edited by Vondo333 on -04-2005 08:36 PM

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<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#cc00cc size=4>Hi All, I think that I'll reiterate my problem.
<FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#cc00cc size=4>st I have done all the uninstalling and deleting before installing the Audigy 2 Value that is logically expected. When I was done installing and restarted I didn't see the speaker icon pop up in the toolbar area so I went to "Control Panel, System Info Area", and open Device Manager, went to "Sound, Video, and Game Controllers". Opened "Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM)" to Properties. It say's that the device is working properly. So I go to "Sounds and Audio Devices" in the Control Panel. Click the Volume tab and it say's "No Audio Device". Go to the Audio tab, and it says under each item "No Playback Devices, No Recording Devices, No MIDI Playback Devices". I go to the Voice tab and it says "No Playback Devices". I go to the Hardware tab, and click the "Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM)". It says "This device is working properly".
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<FONT face=Garamond color=#3366ff size=5>I think that by now you get the idea. I'm not getting any sound at all, but everything in the computer that I am aware of indicates that the "Device is working properly". I've tried forcing a manual install of the drivers, but no success. Creative apparently knows nothing about fixing this problem, because I haven't been able to get any answers from them.
<FONT face=Garamond color=#3366ff size=5>Can anyone help?
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<FONT face=Garamond color=#3366ff size=5>Vondo333
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