Sound Blaster 5.1 Install iss

I just purchased the basic Sound Blaster 5. sound card for my PC.
I followed all the instructions and installed the drivers on my Windows XP (SP2) machine, but for some reason the sound card is not recognized when I click on "Sound and Audio Devices" in the control panel, even though the driver seems to be installed and working properly when I check it from the "Device Manager".
I tried reinstalling the drivers twice now, but to no avail. I also tried uninstalling the drivers to the onboard soundcard, and disabling the onboard soundcard itself through the Device Manager, but that also didn't help.
Finally, if I go to Device Manager -> Sound, video and game controllers -> Sound Blaster 5. -> Properties -> Properties Tab -> Audio Devices -> Sound Blaster 5. Properties
It says:
"Status: Driver is enabled but has not been started"
Does anyone know what that means, and how do I "start" the driver?
Just so there are no misunderstandings, here is the exact model I purchased:
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=&subcategory=207&product=484

Thanks for all the people who contributed, but in fact this has nothing to do with the sound card model. I searched through various forums on the internet, and apparently it's some kind of a Windows bug which many people experienced with a wide range of sound card models and computers.
Again the problem is with the driver status, saying "Driver is enabled but has not been started".
Unfortunately there is only one solution to this problem which works about 50% of the time, and that is to install the "Plug and Play Software Enumerator" windows component, because in some cases it was not installed. For the other 50% of the people with this problem who did have that component already installed, the exact cause of the problem is not really known and the only viable solution is to re-install windows, which after about 3 days of trying work through all the possible solutions that I could find to this problem, is what I eventually had to do.
Now everything works great though... But it took quite a bit of time to re-install windows and all my programs.
Message Edited by nanquan on 09--200703:37 PM

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