MY "No Audio device detected" Solut

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Before I begin, I would like to say if this doesn't help you out I am sorry. My goal is for this method to at least help out one person, if so I would feel content in passing on what had worked for me to this community. I would like to also mention my card worked fine on my Win XP setup but after i switched back to XP i started getting errors such as "...audio device supported not detected..." whenever i would try to use the mediasource applications or even do the driver update for my Audigy 2 ZS card. Here is the method that finally worked for me, because there is no way i was going to go through the minatinous job of having to test different pci slots to get this card to work.
. I did a cleansweep of my audio drivers, directions for different operating systems can be found at this url ( http://ask.americas.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=ww_english,Company={CEAE26D-879-4C00-AC9F-03BC258F7B70},VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com,case=72 ) once you reboot your system after the end of the cleansweep it will locate your card automatically ignore the found new hardware prompts pertaining to your soundcard by pressing cancel on it (or them if you have more than one prompt) and go on to step 2.
2. After that i did a normal cd installation for my audigy 2 zs card installing both regular drivers and the mediasource applications (just to make sure). After the installation finalized I was asked to reboot again which should be done at this point.
3. Once windows loaded back up It located my soundcard and I was presented with the "Found New Hardware" prompts again. At this time for each prompt that came up I picked that I wanted to choose where to find the correct files which i believe is the Recommended choice by Windows which was one of two choices in this area. From there it takes you to another screen where there are checkboxes to choose where you want windows to search for the correct file(s). I chose for both of my found new hardware prompts (if you have more than one, they will show after you finish off the the first one...meaning you will do this procedure more than one time because they will only come up one at a time) for it to search my CD Dri've which still had my creative disc in it so it could search the CD for the correct files (and it should find them).
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I proceeded to do a manual install of the drivers as well (yes im installing over an installation, it sounds stupid i know..but it worked for me) by exploring the CD and running the program located in the Audio/Drivers folder called CTZAPXX.exe (CDDRIVE:\Audio\Drivers\CTZAPXX.exe). Make sure the Update Option selected is Driver Installation and the Driver Type is WDM Drivers and also i checked "Overwrite existing shared Creative audio driver files". Then just click OK and click through any warnings that may come up telling the program you want to proceed still. Once that is done it will ask you to reboot again, at this time you may do so.
4. After Windows loads up this time i have my driver update ready which is located here ( http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/ ) according to card type and operating system (since peoples configurations differ this is something that will have to be searched for independently). Normally when i would just click this file to update my drivers it would unpack and then give me the infamous "...audio device supported not detected..." error but after those steps i took, it actually worked for me and went into the installation. Then i believe it asks for another reboot i might be mistaken but after that good sign of it actually installing all my applications work without a problem now; and everything seems perfectly fine for the time being
Sorry for being long winded, but again if you are a person stuck in this rut or just now have encountered this problem and have tried almost everything, this could be worth a try. I am running win 2000 so there might be some discepancy but you never know until you try. If this doesnt help you all good luck in continuing to find answers hopefully something will come along.

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<div class="lia">ReCogNeYez,<div class="lia">Might be a little late, but this worked perfectly for me. You can now?rest safe in the knowledge that your advice has helped someone out. Now I can finally get back to watching Red Dwarf : )<div class="lia">Cheers mate!<div class="lia">George