Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs Platinum - Smash Party Toda

Question

I have recently spent over $0 thousand dollars on upgrading every computer in my building to Quadcore 64bit vista systems. The only component that remained the same were the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs Platinum dri'ves that every system has. I have been up for 2 days trying to figure out why the external dri've will not work at all, for any system. Everyone in the office is giving me grief over the new stuff because of thing, nobody can get their mics to work, or anything on the external dri've to function.
After reading up on the Dan.k story, and creatives deliberate attempts to be as difficult as possible, even to the point of charging me AGAIN, to make a product work (alchemy), I have decided later today were having a little get together at lunch where I will be instructing my employees to remove their sound cards, and smash them. Hey, I can afford it. Its the principle of the matter that bothers me. I used a valid email obviously to get on this forum. Shoot me an email if you don't believe it creative, and ill send you pictures when we're finished.
I have used ONLY creative products for sound since the 90s. I have at home, a closet full of creative products that I have personally upgraded from over the years. I have been a loyal customer for over a decade. Thankfully I found the dan. K story before I finished finding out weather or not the newest creative products work with vista, because Ive had my Credit Card out for 0 hours now just trying to find the right buy. Creative, you lost it big time.
Mike Wilson.
Message Edited by Revolt on 05-2-2008 08:38 AM

Answer 1

As an IT manager, I'd be more inclined to find out who made the decision to implement this change. Then find all the people who were responsible for deploying all of these systems out to users without testing to insure that they worked. All of these people are responsible for countless numbers of resource hours by introducing a non-tested system into your company's user community. Then, I'd introduce them all to the ever increasing base of the unemployed. The $0K hardware investment that you claim to have made is only the beginning, the overall cost of lost human resource hours will prove to be far more significant.