This X-FI Extreme Music Card is Crap!!

&This X-FI Extreme Music Card is Crap!!Y I am totally fed up with this card AND Creative Labs!! I have tried every single way possible to install this software without success. I have installed and uninstalled the software 20 times, each time I install it gives me a different result...How is that possible? I've installed in regular mode, safe mode, standing on one leg, etc. This thing has not worked right EVER!!! Support is non-existent unless you try the forums....so Creative expects us to solve problems for them? I installed the automatic update feature at their request, updated everything, and then went to the Creative website and found out the update feature doesn't even work for Vista! WTF?!? I had to BUY the software CD for Vista from Creative and THAT didn't work right. THEY ALL HAVE TO BE ON DRUGS!!! THIS IS BY FAR THE WORST PIECE OF HARDWARE I HAVE EVER PURCHASED!

That's right, I did buy it from Dell, BUT, I did some checking and the only thing Dell did was include a audio cable that would make it work in one of their systems....No mod to the board. Dell told me to contact Creative for an RMA. Ceati've said 'Sorry, we can't do that because the card could've been altered, BUT, we'll be happy to sell you another one!" So I'm stuck with it. I? installed running XP on my computer but never had it working right (continual errors, mixer would not lauch,etc.) and then I upgraded to Vista. I went to the Ceati've website to find drivers and found out I had to buy a CD for $0. OK. I get the disk and install...uninstall, try safe mode, try normal mode again, get it to work but no spidf or coax. I can't change my speakers to 5. because it's stuck on 2. ( except one time I installed and it showed 5. in game mode but 2. in the other two modes). Tried taking out all but GB of RAM. I tried every concievable way to get a good install with no luck. My experiences with this card is not unique. I have found other people having the exact same problems with this card and Vista. What I don't understand is why every time I uninstall and re-install the software it does something different ( some features install one time, the next install those don't but others do). I tried Driver Sweeper...no go. THIS IS WHY I'M PI*@ED OFF! If anyone can think of something to do I am more than willing to try it. Am I just a dumb *** or [email protected]

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? If I cannot get this card to work properly can I get a refund ? I have only had it 5 days.
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You are wrong. The 2.3 are for extreme music, you are thinking about extreme audio. Creative have really made a blunder with these names, not strange many are having problems. Propably trying to install extreme audio drivers on extreme music, and the other way around!?
Check that you have the right drivers, if you do. Try the trick where you unpack the driver exe file, so you get all the files from the installer on to a folder of youre choosing. Then use the "Creative Update Utility" popup to install/force the drivers to install. If you dont know what im talking about, search the forums, its been explained many times here.

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Message Edited by arnstein on 02-22-2009 0:42 PM

Just an update for anyone having to deal with the same issue:
everything works fine with the new beta driver 2.4.000.
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XFi Extreme Music Card Probl

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Yes.
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Which driver for Extreme Music ???

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sk8mandan,
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Hello
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Extreme Music phase o

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"We now have the Extreme Audio and Extreme Gamer."
errr
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Well that's a pickle... Xtreme Music gets discounted after one and a half year but yet, Audigy LS is still with us and even gets rebranded to X-Fi Xtreme.. just because CL has a lot old stock of it's
whoosh
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This X-FI Extreme Music Card is Crap!!

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