SB Live Platinum 5.1 and Win XP Media Edition 2

Question

Just a quick question to see if I am heading in the right direction, I have an intel p4 board with an Intel 2.4 ghz chip previous OS was Win XP Pro with sp2....the card ran fine...the odd application that came with the card didn't but overall...life was good..
Then I upgraded the system, same board, same cpu, radeon 9000 pro video card, tv wonder capture card, new OS (Win Media Edition 2005). first loaded old drivers for SB Li've CD then updated all drivers and apps for creatives site..now can't seem to get li've dri've recognised, remote center doesn't seem to work launcher doesn't work and have no sound, at all. Also getting message from Windows "that one or more drivers failed to load at start up" and audio drivers for mixer driver, and sound font settings, as well as mixer settings all failed diagnostics (creatives diagnostics tool)
As I am still fairly new on the software end I thought I would look here before I got things too messed up.
Is there a SB Li've driver issue with Win Media Edition or should i just try a driver reload?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated as my time just seems to be becoming more and more limited...(isn't everyone's!)
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Well, just thought I'd update everybody (you know...me, myself, and I),
As I said previously, i upgrade the system with a larger hard dri've, tv capture card, and a new O/S
Thats where life went sour....my SB Li've platinum 5. digital sound card ( which I must say I was very fond of...) wouldn't work
Tried a clean uninstall/ reinstall of my card and drivers...no go
made sure that I had the latest creative drivers for XP Pro....no go
checked to see that there were no outstanding bios/ mobo updates that needed to be installed...no go
moved the card from the pci slot that it had previously worked fine in (under XP Pro no less)... no go
made sure O/S was completely updated... no go
no adware/spyware etc. ..... no go
checked for any hardware/software conflicts... no go
disabled all virus, spyware, firewall programs.. no go
performed clean boot of XP as per MS instructions....no go and I might add screwed up my system so badly that I had to perform a fresh install of the OS (and yes I followed their instructions to the letter!)
finally, I removed the sound card and went with my onboard audio...fixed...cost priceless!
Now as no one has posted to this thread but me, I am going to add my opinion to this forum
To date I have NEVER, EVER ran anything but a Creative sound card because they have always provided the best products and software for the audiophile...well nothing lasts forever.
I really didn't want to ditch my card as I purchased it weeks after it was released and it has seen win 98, win 98se, win me, win xp pro sp, win xp pro sp2, and finally win mce 2005 as well as numerous hardware upgrades come and go, and has always performed beautifully.
Until now that is. Judging from what I have run into and what I have seen on these forums, covering the li've,audigy, and audigy 2 series cards....there is a major problem here, these cards were all designed to be upgradeable over time! Now I can understand Creative's point of view, it costs a lot of time and money to resurch and design new drivers (particularly with microsofts insistance on driver signing and compatibility)....but I also understand and sympathize with the large number of people frustrated with their product and Creative, in many cases we also have a large cash outlay into Creative's products (in some cases 2 or 3 hundred dollars or much more!), so is it really too much to ask that we can still get updated drivers for some of these older cards with similar if not identical cpu/chipset designs?!?
Not to mention the fact that, for the newer users anyway, the whole driver update procedure should not be as complicated as brain surgery!!! Our li'ves are already complicated enough..
Sorry to go on..but these are just my thoughts on the subject.
Good luck all!