No sound on X-Fi XtremeGa

Hey, I bought an X-Fi XtremeGamer and it just came today. Previously, I had the following hardware setup:
Asus Maximus Formula w/ some SupremeFX HD Audio onboard sound card that it comes with.
Also using the Razer HP- headphones.
The rest isn't that important as far as I know. Anyway, I unplugged everything, took out the sound card the motherboard came with and installed the X-Fi into one of the open PCI slots. Plugged everything back in and went directly into the BIOS. Disabled the 'Onboard HD Audio' option, save/exit, booted into Windows. No sound, of course, so I installed the X-Fi driver cd for Windows XP. After installing all of that, I restarted my computer when prompted annnnd... no sound. At all.
The X-Fi is listed in the device manager and appears to be working properly but I can't get any sound with anything. I tried the Control Panel\Sound and Audio Devices and it says there is no audio device. I went to the Creative site and got the latest (to my knowledge) drivers for my card (October 06?), restarted, still nothing. None of the applications that come with the driver cd pick up any audio device but I'm sure it's securely connected to my motherboard (triple checked). I'm kind of out of ideas (tried other headphones as well to make sure it's not a headphone issue but that yielded the same result). I also tried a clean boot.
Could someone please give me some insight? Thank you.

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