Install problems Win XPSP2 and X-FI Xtreme Mu

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I read the sticky Sound Blaster FAQ and did everything it said to do. Clean boot was no good since driver and soundcard don't see each other, or driver not loaded right. This is driving me crazy, been working since Fri afternoon on this, now it;s late Sunday and it still doesn't work.
I am unable to install drivers completely. System is in loop where at startup windows finds new hardware for sound card, when canceled out, system doesn't see sound card and it doesn't work. Has screen that says software you are installing for Creative X-Fi Audio Processor(WDM) has not passed Windows Logo testing, if told to install, it starts looking for files, but can't find them on disk, I have to browse to file location for first file, ctac32k.sys, which is on disk. Second file, crdnlstr.dat, is not on disk at all, I tried looking in search for it, but is located in several places in Windows/Temp and in System32. If any of those locations are used, system will reboot after a few seconds and then we start all over again.
I reformatted and re-installed XP, the only thing the second time I put on was Service Pack 2 and microcode update from Microsoft for Intel KB 936357-x86-ENU the a slashdot article talked about that was supposed to help, no graphic drivers or chipset drivers yet, wanted to see if it wouldn't work better on clean install. I also updated BIOS to latest version from EVGA, the P30 released last month, nothing newer available yet. Still have same problem. I have 2 PCI slots, tried both of them, same thing. I've disabled on-board audio and don't even have the drivers for that loaded, just in case they were conflicting. This build had been running fine for 2 weeks, no problems at all. Everything started when I first tried to install the sound card drivers. I also cleaned out the CD drivers and tried the web drivers, that froze the computer then caused windows to not load, I had to use the recovery console to repair windows. Back to the CD and now we are where we are at. Please help, thank you. Here is my system.
OS: Windows XP SP2
Motherboard: EVGA 22-CK-NF68-A nForce 680i SLI chipset - using P30 BIOS
Processor: Intel Core 2 Dual 6320
Memory: 2 GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 TWIN2X2048-6400C4 SLI
Video: EVGA nVidia 8800GTS 320 MB Superclocked version
Power Supply: Corsai HX 620w
Hard Dri've (main): WD 74GB Raptor WD740ADFDMessage Edited by Dorsai on 08-27-200707:54 PM

Answer 1

what a crock. 2 days of just looking at my posts. 2 days of stupid customer support people emailing me and telling me to do the stuff I was supposed to do before I emailed them, which I did, desperately hoping for a resolution to this issue. I don't think they read what I said at all, and they spent half the message trying to sell me on other Creative products. If you call this customer support, you can have it.
The card is going back for a refund, I don't need the hassle and frustration. I've used Creative since the 998 Sound Blaster, but no more. They suck, their product for me sucks and their support is nonexistent. I'm going to buy a bgear card, at least they have updated drivers from this month, not last year. And support for all the Dolby, besides, who needs EAX 5, no games are going to use it anyway, and I'm more into music anyway. Thanks for all the help, good luck on getting your issues fixed, seems to me you're going to really need it.
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