Audigy SE (CA0106) & Windows 7

Hello everyone!
I own a MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard with Audigy SE (CA0106) integrated and I'm having some problems making the audio work properly in Windows 7 Ultimate.
It seems inpossible accesing the sound blaster enhancements such as bass boost/bass management/eq and I've tried lots of drivers, including:
letting windows update find a suitable driver version
got the latest version provided on creative website (1.04.0090 from Jul 09)
tried the P17X support pack from daniel_k, I got the console with the enhancements but bass management/boost didnt work at all
on the MSI driver page http://www.msi.com/product/mb/K8N-Diamond-Plus.html#/?div=Driver they have put Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Drivers (?!), I downloaded them anyway but when I tried to install it, I got an error message that a device is not found
and last, I found drivers for CA0106 for Vista which caused me BSOD before getting the installation completed and not being able to boot afrer that...
I'd appreciate if anyone could share experience/thoughts in this matter, providing any solution and workaround that would make the integrated Audigy SE completely functional under Windows 7, or at least enable the bass management/boost cause without it the sound is just plain bad...
Thanks!

i tried even PCI Latency 64 and 96 ... no change

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