X-Fi Xtreme Music - PC won't boot - a bit unus

(Please, excuse my english)
Hi.
I bought an X-Fi Xtreme Music about a month ago.
It worked fine with the newest drivers, but I had some Crackle/Pop Issues and sound loses under GTA San Andreas that I didn't manage to fix as everyone.
My mobo is an old DFI AK75EC, with a VIA KT33A Chipset and AC97 onboard. My Graphic card was a Geforce FX 5600, but yesterday, it started to die (lines on the screen), so I had to replace it with a Geforce 2 MX.
So I took off all the PCI cards and cleaned all the dust inside 'cause i'm not a dirty person, and when I finally replace the X-Fi, the PC was unable to start. I tried all the PCI ports.
The problem is not the graphic card, I replaced the old one (working fine, but the lines), and no result.
The AC97 can be deactivated from bios or from mobo (via a jumper), but both methods show no results.
My X-Fi card have a black heatsink, so I guess It's the latest firmware revision, but I can't be sure.
Now, what can I do? Will Creative contact DFI to help them creating a new bios for a Mobo that had no update since 2002?
Or maybe I can send them the card and have my money back (Oh my god, the pack has already been recycled, I only have the card to send).
Or maybe I can just start crying, cause I lost in the same day the two most recent part of my computer... Yeah, let's cry.Message Edited by Echap0 on 06-0-200708:5 PM

If the card was working originally, then I don't think the issue is that you need a BIOS update, it sounds more like something broke. Do you have access to another system you could try the soundcard in? When you removed it, something could have become damaged, it could simply be the case that the card is faulty.
Cat

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Consider me dyslexic about the MDD. I don't know how
to reset the PMU on it. My beige G3 had a button on
the motherboard
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I know what I know from doing & reading and yes I have a
system folder or two that began in a 6320CD Performa
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I'm certified dangerous because of knowledge gaps....
Aren't we all?
such as CDEVs are control panels?
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init's are mostly extensions?
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That is one method. Or mount the BW with Target disk mode and copy it across. Or copy the system folder to CD.
or if the machines are networked, copy across the network. Or USB memory stick, depending on the size of the folder.
The object is to get a known working drive with a known working/bootable OS into the new machine. Since I know my machine will not see either the 200 or 160 when boot to 9, and on some machines, 9 will not see anything over 128gb, I suggest getting a known good copy of 9 on a drive physically smaller than 128gb (not a sub 128 gb partition of a much larger drive)
Temporarily disconecting the larger drives has no purpose beyond helping eliminate the complexity during diagnostics and troubleshooting. You know they work as intended, and are not part of the problem.

Help, should I get xtreme audio or xtreme music?

I want to get a sound card for my PC. Currently I am using an in built Realtek sound card. I need the sound card for the purposes of recording vocal performances using karaoke backing tracks connecting a karaoke player to a mixer (connected to a studio condenser mic) which is connected to the line in input of the PC. I also need it to record vocal and acoustic guitar performances (guitar connected to the Behringer 202FX mixer). I don't know which sounblaster sound card is suitable for my need. At the moment my eyes are on xtreme music and xtreme audio but I don't know the difference. I know xtreme music has the audio creation feature (as well as the entertainment and gaming features) but I don't know if xtreme audio also has this audio creation feature. Does xtreme audio has a Graphical Interface Unit (GUI) which has an audio creation settings like in this Youtube video tutorial?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocsxTUZa60I?
Can anyone give me any advise as to which one is the one that works for what I want to do?

None. Stay away from creative as if have win7 you are burned. The cards will give you great problems as they do not have proper drivers. Most possibly you won't hear anything from your speakers.

10.6 won't boot; stuck on grey screen

I know this is covered here to some degree, at least, but I haven't been able to find a complete solution/answer, so here goes:
(Please, redirect me to the right source of information, if you know where to look, but not before reading through my post. Thanks! Oh, and I'm no computer expert, so, please, bear with me.)
First of all, my equipment: 17" iMac (serial #: w86262cru2n, emc #: 2104), running (ran?) 10.6 (w/updates)
So, as my title says, my iMac won't boot up and gets stuck on the grey startup screen with the  and the spinning wheel. I can wait and wait, but it never gets past this point.
Here are some things I've tried (nothing has worked so far; "no success" = stuck on grey screen). These steps are also laid out here.
- Tried normal startup (no success)
- Tried Safe Boot (no success)
- Tried booting without connected peripherals (no success)
- Tried alternate outlet (power source) (no success)
- Tried resetting PRAM & NVRAM (no success)
- Tried boot from 10.6 Install Disk (no success)
- Tried replacing original RAM (no success)
- Tried mounting internal drive as Target Disk on my 10.5 MacBook (mounts fine; used 10.6 install disk to verify, says disk is "ok")
- Tried booting to MacBook via Target Disk (i.e. iMac is external drive connected by FireWire) (no success)
- Tried booting from cloned copy of 10.6 disk on an external USB drive (yes, this can be done; I've done it before). This drive was verified "ok" in the same way the internal disk was (see above). (no success)
My next step appears to be to erase the original internal HD and reinstall 10.6. This is where my my ignorance begins to rear it's head. Since I can seem to boot from the iMac, can I do this through my MacBook, viz. mount the original, internal, 10.6 disk on my MacBook and erase it and install 10.6 from there (e.g. through Disk Utility on the 10.5 MacBook)?
Assuming this is possible, can someone step me through the process?
Assuming this last step isn't possible, does this all point to a faulty logic board (sounds like a 'worst case' to me)?
Any ideas? Suggestions?
Many, many thanks, BTW, to all who have posted here and whose help I've availed myself of anonymously many times. And thanks in advance to anyone with helpful ideas.

Try a SMC reset and follow the steps again in the support doc for grey screen
https://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
Your 10.6 install disk seems unreadable if it won't "hold c or option" boot.
Clean the bottom with a alcohol and a very soft cloth and lightly polish until there is no streaks.
Don't touch the bottom or place the disk onto something that will mar the bottom.
If the disk still fails to work, get a replacement, as your going to need it. Get a jeweled plastic case for it.
To make copies of your Snow Leopard install disk, follow these directions.
http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/
Once you can hold c and boot off a working 10.6 install disk, simply reinstall OS X without using Disk Utility to Erase and Format the drive, this will replace the OS X installed (and bundled programs) with the disk versions, then reboot and immediately use Software Update to get current.
Your user files, third party programs will remain untouched, except for ones installed in OS X/root system files, those will have to be reinstalled with updated copies.
All else fails:
Grab a copy of your recent user file folders via FireWire target disk mode first or from a hold option bootable clone on a external drive
If you have to completely erase and reformat the drive, reinstall 10.6, there are some things you need to know.
1: The free iLife that came with your 10.5 install disks are not on the 10.6 retail disks
So to get that you need to select the drive makers name in Disk Utility, erase and install with the 10.5 disks first (warning, wipe entire drive)
2: Name the boot drive the same name as before in Disk Utility when formatting.
3: When you go through inital "Welcome to Mac" setup, use the same username as before, (different password)
4: Once in OS X 10.5 stick a working 10.6 installer disk in and upgrade. Once rebooted, immediately Software Update to current version.
5: Install programs from fresh sources next and update.
6: Finally, return the backup copies of your user file folders (Music, Documents, Pictures, etc., not Library) to their respective folders on the new configuration. Because you used the same hard drive and user name as before you should have little complications with things like iTunes song locations/playlists and other hard references to files on your drive.
By installing the OS first, then upgrading, then programs, then finally user files last, keeps the drive optimized as the drive is faster on the data installed first than data installed later. Since users files change size often, having them towards the end where they can grow or shrink keeps the performance of the computer up as much as possible for the OS and applicaitons. Eventually though with OS X updates it can get a bit more defragmented, but not much.

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