No "Speakers" device on Vista x64 with X-treme Gamer Fatality Edit

I wrote this already to the support, and been "speaking" with 'em for 'bout THREE months, but still no use....
Well the problem is as follows in the title. When I just bought the card it worked smoothly on my PC (MB: ASUS P5B, ,5 Gbs of RAM (at that time). But after updating the BIOS for the card (well, I guess that, that's the time the problem occured) the "Speakers" device from the list of sound devices dissapeared. Only SPDIF remained. I've tried a lot of things: uninstalling the drivers and installing them again, uninstalling drivers then cleaning the register and then installing them again, unistalling the device then cleaning the trash files and installing the drivers again, uninstalling the drivers with the Creative tool (found in their drivers if they are unpacked) then disable the integrated card both through Windows and BIOS (when I've just bought the card I didn't disable the integrated one and still everything was fine) and then installing again...
The last thing I did was disabling the X-Fi card with the integrated one through windows, rebooting PC with X-Fi card deattached and integrated card disabled through BIOS, cleaning the register and trash files, then rebooting again twice, then rebooting with the X-Fi card attached properly... And now Vista doesn't see the card... I'll try to update the CHipset Drivers, but still... I need the Speakers device!
?BTW, when I try to install the drivers through the Device Manager it knocks me off with a message 'bout time out for the operation, though the X-Fi device appears in the manager. And twice windows showed a message 'bout the device being deleted by the OS. Furthermore I've tried not only the new beta drivers but also the old ones. No use...
Can someone help me? Please?

? I have an X-Fi Xtreme Gamer, but I think we might use the same drivers.
Using the same method you used (uninstall via Device Manager, etc.), I installed the newest drivers (SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_8_0008),? and they did not work. As in, they did not work at all. So i uninstalled the new drivers (I again used Device Manager) and reinstalled my older drivers (SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_6_0006).
Fortunately I had those old drivers on a flash-dri've memory stick, but I think you can find websites that archi've old drivers by doing a web search for the drivers you want. For example, I did a Web search for 2.6.0006, and I got a hit that linked me to a place where I could download the 63MB Creative drivers' file. Or you can scroll down in this message board to pbeten's post and try using the link that I posted in a reply. That should take you to the 2.6.0006 drivers. They are not the newest, but they have been working well enough for my Xtreme Gamer, though I do use Windows XP SP2.

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