SB audigy LS driver probl

i have had this card for a while and it was working for almost a year untill last nightand it started saying this not just surround mixer but all of the programs and NOTHING that has sound is working...
---------------------------Surround Mixer---------------------------The audio device supported by this application is not detected. The application will exit.---------------------------OK --------------------------- i cant play any sound i have clean sweeped
i ran the diagnostics program and this says this..
Hardware detection pass
Wave driver fail
midi dri've fail
Mixer driver fail
DirectSound 3D driver fail
Mixer Settings check fail
and when i click fix it says this
---------------------------Creative Diagnostics---------------------------The current problem cannot be fixed automatically. Reinstall the software of your audio hardware to see if your problem can be solved.---------------------------OK ---------------------------i have spent fun hours uninstalling and reinstalling this.....
i have updated the drivers adn installed them with Creative's driver update program.
what do i do?

I stumbled across this post while searching for a fix for my SoundBlaster Li've!. Basically everything worked fine under Win98. I upgraded to WinXP and the card appeared to be installed with no conflicts but I had no sound and I couldn't set a default playback device in "Sounds and Devices" because they were greyed out. I ran the Creative Diagnostic test and the Hardware test passed but all the driver tests failed.
I fixed this problem by going to
Start > Control Panel > Administrati've Services > Services
Locate "Windows Audio" and make sure the service is started. If the service is not started right-click and select properties. Change the startup type to automatic and click start.
Hope this helps anyone who stumbles across this post while looking for fixes.

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At least, I *think* it's a driver problem. Let me start from the beginning.
Just about every other time I start up my PC, my SB Audigy 4 (Retail) runs into a problem. That is, the nice Exclamation Point shows up, and it doesn't see it as a SB Audigy 4, but rather a "Multimedia Audio Controller" (MAC for short). So I uninstall the MAC, reboot (note, at reboot, it shows it as a Creative Soundblaster Audigy Audio Processor, still with the yellow exclamation point next to it, and still with (CODE 0) attached, and install the SBAX_WEBUP_LB_2_08_0004.exe drivers. (Why, oh why does it only come in EXE format? What happened to the Good old days of .inf files?)
Pic Follows:
http://www.sglider.net/images/Audigy4uninstalled.JPG
I install, and everything goes well. I reboot, and my Sound drivers are there, so I can play my favorite games. But, the next time I reboot my PC, I'll have lost my Sound Drivers again --- though it doesn't happen every time, but I can't go more than 2 reboots without it happening again.
I'm really getting tired of reinstalling these drivers on every boot up. Does anyone have the skinny?
My system details follow:
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (333mhz Barton)
Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Mobo (Via chipset - Newest Hyperion Drivers installed) - Motherboard updated.
Ati Radeon X850XT AGP
SB Audigy 4
2 GIG PC2700 DDR SDRAM
Microsoft Windows XP Professional w/SP2 and all updates.
Thank you for your patience, and your assistance.

Thanks for that tip, that may make it so I don't have to do stupid things to get it to see the driver.
Next step though is to find a way to keep the Driver from mysteriously uninstalling or borking itself so I don't have to keep reinstalling it. Any ideas?

Audigy 2 driv

i just reformatted my hard dri've and i lost the disk that came with sound card that has the drivers for it and this freaking website wont give me the drivers only updates that require the drivers already. so where the heck am i supposed to get the drivers from?

i took my sound card out to see exactly what it is, model number SB0090 (with no M or G at the end)
when i search the site by model number there is no SB0090, theres an SB0090M and SB0090G, both are some type of Audigy 2, but every time i download an audigy 2 driver, when i try to install it, it says"Setup could not detect any Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Sound Blaster Audigy on your system.
Please ensure that your Sound Blaster hardware is properly installed before running this Setup program.
Setup will now exit."
and dont tell me that "its not in all the way" or anything like that i've taken it out and put it back in many times, i've tried it on 3 different slots on my mother board it keeps saying this and every time i turn on my computer it says windows detected new hardware so i know that it's being detected by windows so wtf is the problem? in the device manager its there under "Other Devices" as "Multimedia Audio Controller"
when i do a search for drivers it comes up with nothing and when when i try to install any driver it doesnt work.

Audigy 2 ZS driver probl

I've had a 2 ZS for a while now and?decided to reinstall?Windows XP after purchasing a much bigger hard dri've. After installing all system drivers (chipset, video, etc.)?for everything else on my system and running Windows update, I go to install the Audigy drivers and?it locks up my system /2?way though the install. The hard dri've light will stay light the whole time until it eventually reboots the computer and goes through the same process once Windows starts back up. It is basically a never ending loop. Now, I've had several Creative products over the years and have usually been able to deal with their buggy drivers, but this time I'm completely stumped on what to do. I'm on my 3rd Windows reinstall because of this problem and have tried just about everything I can think of short of?throwing?the card away and?heading over to Best Buy to purchase a Turtle Beach product. :angry:?Anyone ever run into this? Any suggestions?

BigBoss. From all the reading I did and the questions that I asked Creative, including using the X-Fi driver, the word from the top really is that it isn't recommended. It's just not a supported configuration. It may work, but I'm betting there may be some problems like your seeing now. I just downloaded and installed the latest drivers that do support the Audigy 2ZS card, and so far (knock on wood), everything seems to be working extremely well.
I decided to download the driver first and let the install do its thing. When it couldn't erase all the driver files, obviously because they were still acti've, I rebooted in safe mode and ran DriverCleaner Pro. It removed all the rest of the files. Rebooted normally and continued the installation. So far, as I've said, all is good! But I'll keep testing to see for sure. Good luck!

Creative L3500 Speaker system and Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Soundcard (I have a driver probl

Yes I have had a driver problem so i went to the download section of this site and picked up a driver program for my soundcard yet it doesn't work. When i do uninstall my soundcard (i need to uninstall current driver to install new driver)and i restart my comp after removing the old one i get sound, but i notice i don't get very good sound, not as good as my old before it stoped working. But then after i install new one it just doesn't work!
Please help me if you know about drivers!!!!
PS: I use windows XP and if you need any more info just request it from me.Message Edited by Nick345 on 02-28-200605:05 PM

JRe: Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum - Speaker issues not covered by FAQs0 I'm afriad that the CMSS3D option did not work? ? I still cannot get any speakers to play out of the rear of the soundcard.
As I said before, the goal is to try to get sound to play out of both the headset and the speakers attached to the rear of the soundcard simuntaneously.
The headset is plugged into one of those devices in the front that is in a 5 & /4" bay that has the individual knobs for adjusting volume for the headset and outbound levels for the microphone.
The speakers are plugged into the back of the soundcard and do not play any sound in any of the sockets, starting from the firewire port and counting 3 over.
Any suggestions? I? thought it might have something to do with the setting of the speakers from control panel - > Sounds and Audio Devices -> Advanced and picking the right choice there. No luck however. Same for the Creative Speaker Settings as well.
I'm at wits end and I'd be very thankful to whoever can resolve this for me. =)

Audigy Platnum 2 Live drive probl

Hello I purchased an Audigy platnum 2 from a friend with the li've dri've. Everything is installed, updated drivers from creative's website and I still cannot get the li'vedri've to function properly. Headphones work fine, microphone does not. Neither does firewire port. When I plug into the card on the backside of the PC everything works fine, but I really would like to get the li'vedri've up and running for the convenience. The mic sounds really weak and muffled when I try to record in Audition or soundbooth and just when it is plugged in it has the same muffled light sound. Any help would be appreciated.
BTW system specs
XP SP2
q9300
4 gigs DDR2 066 Ram
geforce 8600

To summarise everything worked ok for a period of time, then, when attempting to use the headphones (which had worked prevoiusly) there was no sound. Further investigation revealed that the remote, mic 2 and aux in 2 (which also worked previously?) also did not work but a red light still shows in optical out. You have tested these using the surround mixer to select the appropriate inputs.
The red light in optical out shows you have power and connectivity to the card also they appear in the mixer ( if I understand your initial post correctly) which shows the card detects the front bay.
This is difficult to comment on as everything seems to be as it should be. Please confirm in detail that my understanding is correct.
PS. it would help if you call things by their correct names.

Audigy 2 ZS Newest Beta Driver Probl

those drivers have really big problems, in BF2 it has its problems as u know, freezes and when there are a lot voices and sound it laggy but sometimes not so much.
for example in the game SAS Anti Terror Force, and StarShip Troopers the FPS new game, the games Freeze, stuck, and have sound issues, and the game : The Movies has sound problems too, the music suddently and sometimes turn off and on.
anyone tried and has the same synptoms?
i dont want to go back to .84.55 , they dont support nothing,, .

Never mind about my previous post. Found the answer on another forum. CMSS does not upmix like ProLogic. All it does is put echoes/reverb in the other speakers besides L/R (pretty worthless if you ask me).
To get real ProLogic type upmix, all I did was disable CMSS altogether. Then I installed DTS NEO 6 and enabled it in Cinema mode. All my music was then upmixed just like ProLogic. Voices to the center speaker, instruments to L/R, echoes to the rear channels, and bass signals to the subwoofer.
Lesson learned: Do not look for answers on manufacturer forums. These are just gripe pages. Hope this helps somebody with the same problem though.

Audigy Gamer driver iss

I cannot get the latest drivers for the Audigy Gamer (E400) to work correctly with my card no matter what I do. I'm running off a clean WinXP install with SP2. I installed AUD_EAX4DRV_0303.exe, then updated my AudioHQ, then installed AUD_WEBUP_PCWDRV_-84-40.exe. Upon installation I get sound, my mixer works, and AudioHQ works (EQ, ENV, FX presets all funciton). But when any game attempts to use EAX, I get no sound. If I alt-tab out of the game, and load AudioHQ, all of my ENV, EQ, and FX settings are blank. As soon as I exit the game, AudioHQ returns to normal and my sound returns. I've tried updating drivers every way possible, and nothing's changed. I have to use old drivers, and the old drivers produce very poor EAX effects, if any, but they are the only drivers that actually function fully.
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MSI KT3 Ultra2 (Via KT333)
AthlonXP 800+
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Thanks for any help!

Avenger55,
The problem that you are dealing with here is that the original driver CD you have predates Windows XP. It is possible to get the CD install to work under XP by doing what we discussed earlier, however it appears there may be a third detail that is causing the trouble here. I noticed that you are running a VIA chipset, are you running the latest version of the Hyperion 4 in drivers? If not you should go to www.viaarena.com and get the update. The newest drivers should work with your system without trouble as long as the system is up to date.
You might also consider ordering our latest install CD for the Audigy as it contains the latest drivers for the Audigy along with all of the updated software. You can order it from our Direct Sales department who can be contacted at -800-998-000 option #.
Jeremy

Audigy 4 decoding probl

Hello all!
I just became the owner of an audigy 4 pro and everything seems to be working fine except for the hardware ac3 and dts decoding.
Both windows media player 0 and powerdvd 5 behave as if the dvd is scratched (glitchy playback) when i turn on the spdif output.
I tried to play a vob file from the hard dri've to make sure it doesn't have anything to do with data transferring and i got the same problem.
There's no conflict with my graphics card drivers (radeon 9600pro) and the on-screen dolby/dts logo appearing when i start playback, because i turned the osd off and the problem persists...
Powerdvd's soft decoding works fine but i'd rather have it the hardware way... after all i paid for it.
Strange thing -dvd audio works flawlessly.
I previously had the li've 5. installed, could there be any conflict with the old drivers?
Driver problem or faulty card?
Thanks for any help!
Ledz
System: athlon xp 2600+, 768 ddr333, asus a7n8x deluxe mobo, ati radeon 9600pro agp8, audigy 4pro
sony 6x dvdrom...

Well I have to say thank you for saving me $300.00 bucks. I have the Audigy 2ZS Platinum and it does exactly the same thing. When the "scratching" finally goes away, the audio and video are out of sync and I cannot seem to fix it. It appears that this is something of an emerging problem as I have seen more and more people complain about it in the last couple of months. I have yet to find the answer to fix it and Creative has not responded here concerning the issue, at least that I have seen. I am using the nVIDIA DVD Decoder with a GeForce 6800GT OC and I get the same response with both Dolby Digital and DTS. I have seen various postings of people trying many different options such as changing PCI slots and manually setting IRQ's but this has not remedied the situation. I am wondering if it is driver or hardware related. Does anyone at Creative know anything about these problems?

Digital output problem with new Audigy 2 driv

I updated to the 02.08.0004 drivers today and everything seemed fine till after I calibrated my speakers within speaker settings. I have Z680s hooked up to a Audigy 2 PCI card using both digital out and analog. As with previous drivers I calibrated using 6 Channel direct input.
Anyway, the problem is that when I use windows media player or any other media app, with the speakers set to Coax input (digital) I get the sound coming from the rear 2 speakers, instead of through the front 2 as it should. However, this only happens if I choose a speaker calibration under speaker settings.
It's a bit annoying because I didn't have this problem before. Anyone else have this problem or a solution? Or is it a case of Rolling back to an old driver and hoping the problem doesn't stick?
Thanks

Anyone have any ideas?

Audigy Platinum driv

Hi all, and a big hello from a beginner in this forum!
I'm going to download new drivers for my old Audigy Platinum (200), the file name is: sabx_webup_lb_2_08_0004.
My question is: does it works good?
One year ago I downloaded a driver from this site and my XP SP2 crashed!!
Does it worth, anyway? I have no problems with my sound card and I don't know if it is really necessary to update the driver...
Maybe anyone installed the new driver and had problems?
Thank you.

Redman wrote:
Hi all, and a big hello from a beginner in this forum!
I'm going to download new drivers for my old Audigy Platinum (200), the file name is: sabx_webup_lb_2_08_0004.
My question is: does it works good?
One year ago I downloaded a driver from this site and my XP SP2 crashed!!
Does it worth, anyway? I have no problems with my sound card and I don't know if it is really necessary to update the driver...
Maybe anyone installed the new driver and had problems?
Thank you.
Drivers v. 02.08.0004 works perfectly. Just install the driver update by following the instructions found behind link below.
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=4892
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on 05-4-2006 09:44 PM

2 issues with last Audigy 1 driver upd

I have presently 2 issues with the last drivers released for the Audigy cards. Both issues are able to be reproduced consistently, and did not happen with the last release (from last year), or at least not consistently.
. Crackling while playing back Quicktime files has increased. Previously it was around in 0 files that crackled (and only Quicktime that I noticed). Now it is around in 3.
2. I cannot play back DVD's through Windows Media player 0, period. Whenever I try I get the following message:
"this pin cannot use the supplied media type"
How do I know this is driver related? Well, by reverting to the last drivers the message goes away. Also, if I disable the soundcard totally the error goes away and the video plays, albiet without sound.
Anyways just thought I'd post this here so hopefully someone at Creative sees it and actually fixes the issue.
BTW, yes I did try reinstalling the drivers. Twice. Even redownloaded them in case the original D/L was corrupted.
Edited to clarify about the DVD issue:
To make it a little clearer about the DVD issue, when I first got my Audigy while using the original release drivers on the install CD, I could not use 5. output with the soundcard decoding. To try to get it working, I would put the output to SPDIF and set the soundcard to decode AC3. This would not even allow the movie to play in WMP 0, often just crashed the player. With the last driver update before the January one, I could set the output to SPDIF in WMP 0 and AC3 to decode in the Creative audio control panel and I would have 5. surround output. With the last driver update, setting output to SPDIF and trying to play the movie gives the 'this pin cannot use the supplied media type' error message. If, however, I start the movie on 2 speaker output in WMP 0 it will play normally. While the movie has started I can go into preferences and switch output to SPDIF and 5. surround kicks in and works fine usually. But, if I then stop the movie and restart it I once again start getting the 'this pin cannot use the supplied media type' error, and the DVD will not play.
Also thought it worth mentioning XP is up to date, SP2 and all the latest patches, Nvidia drivers up to date (not that it's a video card issue) and Direct X is up to date also (I run the update once a month just in case).Message Edited by Drifter73 on 05-5-2006 0:35 AM

Jay,
As to your first question: it could be a OS and discoverer problem that you are running into. I would suggestion upgrading atleast to 3.1.45 or higher. If you can go to 4.1
I can not really assist you with your other questions as I do not have that version available..
CHW

Finally. A solution for Installing Audigy 2 drive

Seems to be a fairly common problem that I have seen posted on this board and many others. Here is a solution that I found after a couple hours of trying. This solution is valid as of 3 Jan 2006 for the (SBA2_PCDrvBeta_LB_2_08_0002) driver found in downloads. This solution pertains to Winxp.
The Problem:
When installing the latest software for Windows Xp I receive a message to the effect that an Audigy 2 has not been detected.
The solution:
-Download the drivers.
-download a copy of winrar. There is a free evaluation copy located here http://www.download.com/WinRAR/3000-2250-0007677.html?part=dl-winrar&subj=dl&tag=button
-Install Winrar
-Open Winrar, locate the Soundblaster file by double clicking on it.
-Select all the files and folders in the soundblaster file.
-extract those files and folders to a known location. (I extract to a file folder that I created on my desktop called "dump" because its easy to find)
-open the file folder and go to the "drivers" sub folder.
-double click on the setup icon.
This installed the new drivers for me. I hope it works for you too! Good luck.
Please post if this works for you, so that others know its a viable fix.
-Message Edited by Tangogulf on 0-3-2006 :43 PM

Eks.
My solution does not pertain to the installation of a new card. Windows actually detected it as an Audigy when I first installed it. It wasnt until I did the autoupdate that it was recognized as an Audigy 2.
However, after it was recognized, the Soundblaster software still did not recognize it as an audigy 2, depite it being list in my device manager.
My guess would be that if one were to install a new audigy, if they downloaded the drivers and extracted them as stated in the first post, they would be able to refer to the driver area and get them installed from there without the SB driver disk.
Its merely a guess though.

Plz Help: Audigy 2 ZS Probl

Hello Everyone at Creative/Forum Users! I'm new here so nice to meet you all...
I have a 5. speaker system using them with Audigy 2 ZS Platinum...
Scenario: When I'm calibrating the speakers .. I hear the correct sound through the right speaker... like when the person is identifying the speaker, it's the correct ones (rear ones work here)....all settings are on 5. ... but when i click to hear the 'Channel' or 'Noise' test in the creative program i hear the 'Rear Left' in the 'Front Left' and the 'Rear Right' in the 'Front Right' ... What is the problem?
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I've already tried uninstalling the drivers, restarting and installing either with my original cd driver / website driver ...
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One of the Forum Admin's from Creative said the driver for all of us Audigy 2 customers with Vista?should be coming out in the next few days.. Creative labs didn't give a date.. Hopefully the drivers come out on Friday if not later this evening or tonight.

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