X-Fi Xtreme Gamer - No audio device - Windows XP Media Edi

?I own quite a new Mesh Computer (UK) and in the last week or so the sound has stopped working. Windows is now thinking the sound card is not installed, although when you look in control panel, system you can see the card and it says it's working with no problems.
If I try to reinstall the drivers, they also say no sound card is present. I removed the card from the system, device list and restarted the PC.
No application or games?can play sound, even Creatives own software or even Windows sound volume in the task bar.
But the bizzare thing is Windows can still play sounds, when you click on folders, etc.
I have been trying to find an answer on the net but i'm struggling. I have heard a rumour with another compaines sound card, that a new Windows update may have caused this problem. But I cannot find this myself.

Yep, same thing happens to me.When set to software or hardware audio mode the game crashes when loading a map, and when set to X-Fi mode and ultra quality the games crashes and pc restarts with the bsod of death after a while. I have set the audio to 6 bit,4400hz (cd quality in vista) and set the audio to X-fi medium quality, I still get the same crackling etc at times as if the pc is about to restart but this disappears after a few seconds and so far the game has not crashed with these settings, but i've perhaps not played the game long enough on these settings for it to crash, but fingers crossed this has fixed it for me. Some people are saying it's a compatible problem with the nvidia drivers and creative drivers. My spec :Amd x2 4200, Geforce 7800gt, X-fi fatlaity, Asus A8n-sli premium,2gb ram,Vista 64.
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