Platinum Live

I have a Sound Blaster with the Li've Dri've. All worked well untill I upgraded from WinXP Home to WinXP Pro. Trying to reinstall the software for SB I get the message it is not compatible with my version of Windows. I went to Creative's Web site and loaded all the latest updates available for this sound card, but many of the Sound Blaster features still do not work. Is there a fix or do I have to get a new sound card, or go back to the older version of XP.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx
Gary

Progress (of sorts). Went for the "clean sweep installation" (again). Downloaded the latest driver pack from Creative (again). But this time, before the "clean sweep", I actually renamed a number of files in %WINNT%/System32 and %WINNT%/System32/drivers so that Windows DEFINITELY can't re-use them.
This time, the driver update was successful. I can tell that because now, when I run the RemoteCentre driver update, it actually completes (where before it kept quitting, and telling me to update my sound card drivers).
So now I'm running latest drivers, plus am running latest version of Remote Centre. Now, on restart, Remote Centre starts at least (previously it'd just give me an error saying it can't find the remote control receiver).
Problem is that even though it's now starting and showing the remote control GUI on screen, after it starts I can't do anything with it. The remote control GUI disappears and I can't get it back. If I right-click on the RemoteCentre icon in the systray and choose "Configure RemoteCentre" it says........
"Unable to detect remote control receiver - please check to see if it is installed correctly".
I'm really at a bit of a loss now I don't have sufficient free hardare to build a Win98 machine to confirm that the hardware works and as far as I can tell that is the only way I can be certain whether it is dead or not. It definitely worked fine in Win98 - can't remember if I had it running in Win2k or not, though.
If anyone has any more ideas on how I can test the thing, please let me know. For example - when I remove the covers for SPDIF connectors, I can't see any lights - should I be able to see a red light to indicate the device has power, or is that a red herring?
Please help I promised a friend I'd rip his tape to CD weeks ago now. I haven't got a suitable cable to convert RCA jacks into regular "headphone"-style stereo jacks, and so can't plug into the card itself. **bleep** **bleep** **bleep**

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Originally posted by mike315
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