Unable to boot to Vista with Sound Blaster XFi Fata1ity Pro Series driv

I installed Vista Home Premium x86 as a second OS on a partition in conjunction with XP Pro. When I installed the Creative Vista drivers for my Fataity Pro Series I can't boot into Vista, it keeps restarting. I can, however, boot to XP and the card still works perfectly.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Matt

JW30 wrote:
Not a computer geek here but did you uninstall the old drivers before installing vista?
What old drivers? He wrote, he just installed Vista!!? Maybe you should check youre reading glasses if you have any!?
Sorry OP, no help here.

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