Audigy 2 ZS ; Trying to upgrade to new beta drive

I've been a fan of the Doom series for a long time, so its only natural I buy the expansion, and when something such as these new beta drivers come along, I need it, badly.
I tried installing them, and I get an error saying my Audigy isnt found. My computer is an upgraded HP Pavilion a550e, only updgrades on it are a Nvidia 6800GT and an Antec 430 watt PSU. I've tried the drivers from HP, and they work perfectly fine, but their not the ones I need. Strange that the HP drivers work but the manufacturers drivers don't.
I've tried uninstalling the drivers, nothing. Reformatting, nothing. Moving the soundcard to a different slot, still nothing. I've read other posts on these forums about this problem, but I could not understand any of the possible answers on here at all, I got as far as extracting the .exe, then I hit a wall.
So, if someone could please throw me a bone here, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

DanW wrote:
Thats the problem though, NONE of creatives drivers work for me at all. So even if an official came out, I probably wouldnt even be able to update to those drivers...Message Edited by DanW on 04-7-2005 05:20 PM
That is because you haven't bought the card from the Creative. You have OEM card (from HP) and OEM (HP) is the one who should provide you with original (as well as updated) drivers. You should bug them, not Creative.

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