SB Live! 5.1 Digital (Dell) Supp

My card SB Li've! 5. Digital (Dell)... I hope this helps someone... A week ago?I installed Vista, and?Vista automatically downloaded and installed the proper driver for my sound card and it worked flawlessly for?one week. ?I was like awesome!? I needed to reinstall Vistatwo days ago for unrelated issues, and this time a compatible driver could not be found. I looked manually and tried everything (Dell, Creative, Microsoft, 3rd party, & other drivers)?and nothing. I was like what?!? This begs the question I have for Creative -- how could a compatible driver be available a week ago and now, there is nothing? Whatever driver Vista did download a week ago worked very well. So this is what I did and it works -- I downloaded this XP driver - (Dell) Driver Install Pack 2 - (26 Nov 03) and ran the install program in XP Compatibility Mode. It worked. If you click to install without selecting?compatibility mode, the install program will not recognize your sound card. This configuration seems to work for me, but I have not tried it much yet. I still need to do some tests. No blue screens on boot up though!? One last thought -- I really like my Creative Sound Card but I will never purchase their product or a computer with their product inside of it. Microsoft makes a good product and Creative should provide support for their sound cards. If this helps even one person I will be happy... Let me know...

Where did you find the (Dell) Driver Install Pack 2 - (26 Nov 03)... I looked on dell's website and could not find it.

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