XFi Extreme Music Card Probl

I just bought my Xfi card a couple of days ago; My Audigy One was working fine(just as a baseline) My board is a Asus A8V bios 04 2 GB ram, A64 3500. My current test game is Call of Duty with the .4 patch. I have installed all of the driver updates this week; Game crashes almost immediatly. I first had a IRQ conflict with my Geforce 6800GT. I moved the X-fi card to slot 4 and no more conflict; however same problem with the game. I also get some cracklin in the speakers when the system boots up.
Question number one; should I plug a floppy power cable to the card? One post seemed to think that you should. This is just the Xtreme Music card with no accessories; the manual refers to this for "powering the X-fi I/o console via the AD_Link Connector. Any thoughs on this or my problem in general. I will try other games and see if it continues.

Actually, if you check the fine print at dell's website you will see a # footnote that says?basically that their card may vary from a retail one and also that the dolby is accessed via the DVD software they include.
Anyway here are 2 links to discussions right here in the forums that talk about it and I'm SURE if you did a search you would find even more, hint hint <wink>
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...scending&page=
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...=227390#M48250

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Sound only plays in Front left speak on Windows 7 with Xfi Extreme Music??

I have Xfi Extreme Music (SB0640). In installed the lastes drivers for windows 7 (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.creative.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/#]Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver 2.8.003 [/url]), When I run a speaker test all 6 speakers work, however when I use media player, media center etc. Only the front left speaker works.
Do I need to install creative Alchemy?
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Any asistance will be appreciated
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NRe: Sound only plays in Front left speak on Windows 7 with Xfi Extreme Music? You will need to have the Creative Console Launcher which will let you have CMSS-3d or Creative Multichannel Surround Sound. You can find the newest version for your card here......
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=094"]http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=094[/url]
Honestly though, dont bother with just that. Get Daniel K.'s X-FI support pack which is updated with the newest drivers and applications for your card. Plus, he tweaked those with fixes for installation/integration? under operating systems other than XP.
That can be found here.......
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://rapidshare.com/files/234436040/XFI_SupportPack_2_0.exe"]http://rapidshare.com/files/234436040/XFI_SupportPack_2_0.exe[/url]
And the link is still good.

CD-ROM Audio Connector on XFI-Extreme Music Addit

Hi Guys,?I was looking at the specs on the XFI-Extreme Music Addition card. I do not see any mention of an internal connector to connect the CD/DVD rom to the sound card for listening to audio CDs. Does this card not have such a connector? How do you listen to audio CDs without such a cable connecting these devices. Thanks in advance?

Hi Stormy 3?Had that unchecked. Thanks? a lot. Now I have learnt something new. I always thought you needed that cable. And the Audigy ZS 2 was the first sound card I had that came with a cable to connect to the digital slot on the ROM dri've. All the other cards I had only had the analogue cable. Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

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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Hi I have the Xfi extreme gamer card. I just reinstalled windows 7 and got the latest drivers from SoundBlaster . The sound seems muffled . I used Daniel Ks driver in the past and it worked well for me but now I get a error- ?setup was unable to detect the card? .

I can install the XFi Extreme Gamer but the problem is when i restart the computer, the resolution of the monitor drop to 4 bits only. When i check at display card properties, it show this message "This device cannot find enough free resource that it can use". Please help. For the information, my previous sound card is Sound Blaster 5. Li've and i don't have problem with it. My specs:Windows XP SP2RAM 2 GBP4 2.8 GHZ7600 GT (AGP)

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Here is my problem i mostly use my pc for games
i connected my digidal din to my speaker system and when i go to the THX optimizer i only can get sound out of the fron left and front right speakers. I used to have a sound blaster li've value card like 8 years ago and i could get sound out of all four of my speakers. I have the old creative four point surround speakers that have a digidal din conection. How can i recieve sound from all four channels

duykhanh204 wrote:
thanks for reply ! Pls check for me my product is original or OEM , i think its' original? . And check info about? card for me , it's support full or lost some component ?SB0460- S/N : [size="3" color="#ff0000" face="Verdana">MASB0467548002594R [size="3" color="#ff0000" face="Verdana">Made in malay?I Download the lastest driver , but i can't see icon Dolby And DTS . I try open Creative Audio Console,in tab SpDIF I/O , everything is invisibile, can't choose . And see in the combo box is "default" . What happens ? Some my friends use XFI Fatalty Xtreme gamer and XFI xtreme Music same my problem .
You have a SB0467 which is a Dell oem X-Fi card. I do not believe it's "origional" or retail. I got mine on ebay brand new for $45. I knew what I was buying (my system is a Dell). The clue to not being retail is that there usually is no retail box, manual, software, etc. I got the card only. So in a nutshell: no support

X-Fi Extreme Music card causes system crashes Windows Event ID 1

I have a Dell computer running Win XP Home. After installing my new?X-Fi ExtremeMusic card my system gives me the following error at startup:"? Microsoft Windows
The system has recovered from a serious error.
A log of this error has been created. "?This error message does not have any supporting detail so I usually close the error message box and continue to use Windows. However after a few hours the system will suddenly crash. The Windows System Log shows:?Source? System ErrorCategory? 02Event ID? 003Error Code? 000008e?When I removed the XtremeMedia card from the computer the problems stopped. I am using the most recent driver available for this card that I downloaded from the Creative website on Jan-5-2007. Can anyone help.
? If I cannot get this card to work properly can I get a refund ? I have only had it 5 days.
Message Edited by cvw on 0-09-200707:04 AM

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.

X-Fi Extreme Music Card not detected by Creative driver installation

? Abit An-M2HD MOBO. I have x-fi music card (used). XP loads OK -- after failing a few times - - but can't install drivers, SB install program says no supported device detected. I see many posts about Nvidia N-Force chip boards having this problem, but I can't find one with a clearly identified solution. I do not have the problem with a million instances of multimedia listed -- just get a generic multi-media audio device with no ability to install drivers. I've tried using windows auto install, no dice, and both stand alone drivers and a creative install disc.
Is there a fix? I don't want to reinstall windows, too much trouble. I'll sell the card before I get into that.
Thanks
Arnstein
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.
Thanks to Creative.

XFi extreme music front panel audio.

?Hello everyone I've got a question about connecting the front panel audio on my extreme music. Is it possible to hook up my FP audio connection thats built in to my case or do I have to have the creative front panel for it to work? My case?has 2 fp connectors, for high def and the other for regular audio, if that hel
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Omega.
Message Edited by BlackOmega on 02-05-2009 0:08 [email protected]

You have to get the X-Fi I/O Dri've. Unfortunately Creative doesn't sell it anymore themselves. You can find it online, though refurbished.

XFI Extreme Music workaround for hanging and lock

Well I think I found a workaround for all the problems with my new XFI XM card.
I uninstalled it by activating a System Restore point to just before I installed the drivers with the Installation CD.
Then I rebooted and when the Add New Hardware prompt popped up as it detected the installed XFI card I made sure my XFI install disk was in the dri've and went through the wizard. It located the drivers it needed on the install disk. Finished the installation and rebooted.
Been running my system ever since, bout 0 hours now, also played Rise of Legends for about 2 hours straight (and if anyone knows how buggy ROL can be, thats no small feat), ran Itunes, all the normal stuff I do and not one glitch or hangup since. Even with about 50+ units duking it out in ROL I had momentary spots where the sounds seemed to bleed together but hey, with all that stuff going on and no lockup or BOOM BOOM BOOM starting up non stop, I'm a happy camper.
Granted I didn't install any of the other fancy software from the install disk, but this is much better, at least it works with no locku
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Hope this maybe helps anyone else who at least wants a functional system.
Have a good one.

Hi KokChoy, thanks for the reply. The reason I am asking is that others seem to be having the same issue with the Vista CD available online and seems to relate only to the extrememusic. Has the CD available online been updated since release It appears as though the online CD is for all XFI cards (except extreme audio). I was under the assumption that this would be the same CD which was distributed through retail with Xfi product's. The CD which I received with my extremegamer does have the drivers for the extrememusic as I pointed vista to the CD to search for drivers and it did indeed locate and install as an extrememusic.
Not meaning to sound rude so I appologize in advance if I do but upon researching this I have found a number of posts but they all seem to contain "may not", "might", "should" or something similar. I was hoping to get some form of official response about the status of the install CD and specifically the extrememusic before ordering and paying shipping and handling for something which may end up being of no use to me.
Thanks.

Optional drivers for xfi extreme music?

Been using this card for 2+ years with no probs. Just did a fresh install of xp pro student and crysis crashes often. Some of the issues were ati vid drivers and still may be, but I was able to find and try older versions of the vid card dri'ves that have improved the issue.
I would like to try older versions of sound card drivers but between the black circles that obscure much of this forum and no listing of?older xfi drivers on creatives download page I have not found anything.
Also would like to find WHQL approved xfi drivers for xp. The only driver at creatives site pops up the "not approved" window during installation.

+ No more black circles. I can now search and read replies but to no avail. I still have not found info on whql xfi drivers or older drivers.
I have searched here and the net with poor results.
Am I missing something obvious?

XFI Extreme Music Prob

My system is listed below in my Sig, My problem is a Strange one as My card seems to be working fine except for the fact of when I attempt to adjust my settings IE Creative Media Player. I Get an Error(No Hardware supporting this program) as if the System is running off Windows Default or On Board Sound card (Which Ive since Disabled in Bios ) In Other Words when you attempt to go further and Change From Windows Default to Creative XFI on drop down Dialog box for a Sound source , There are no other Choices but XP Default ? . Ive tried reseating the card and also changing the PcI slot card is located in. Im currently using the beta driver that expires in sept., I hoped this would cure the problem , but It did not.
So in a nutshell while I am getting 5. sound from My Logitech Z5500 System, I cannot Change any settings , Any Help would be Greatly Appreciated. I Hope I Explained my problem well enough ,
Thanks
FB

Are you sure you're actually using the X-Fi as soundcard? And not some internal card?
If you have an internal card did you disable it's In the bios if possible?

XFI-Extreme Music-Microphone is not detec

First of hey and sorry if this is an appropriate post but i looked at the stickies and they didn't help so im posting.
Ive had a XFI card for almost over 2 years now and obviously i have been using the sound for it but i haven't connected my microphone to it as I've have been using the realtek drivers on my motherboard but last week i lost on microphone input and had to resort to using a USB mic that i borrowed, thinking it was my headset i brought another and tried today and its still not recognizing my voice. So i plugged the mic in my XFI port and tried to see if it reconises voice but it doesn't, but when i go through the help and set up software and it asks to speak out the sentence it doesn't pick it up but if i turn the mic on and off it picks up sound for a brief second. I updated all drivers both for the card and motherboard and tried using both headsets which both work perfectly and still no luck so im asking outto you guys if you had the same problems and have the solution to my problem.
Thanks in advanced

I guess that should have been more obvious than it was :smileysurprised: yes, I had 'what you hear' selected. That would also explain why muting the playback of the mic was stopping people hearing me on vent/teamspeak.
just going to go check this now, thank you. Two pairs of eyes/brains better than one and all that.
[edit]
yes, that was precisely it - I feel ever so slightly embarrassed but thank you for the help.
Message Edited by DanielID on 06-4-2009 0:28 PM

Can I install two X-Fi extreme Music cards in the same

I was running two SB Li've cards in my Sony VAIO which allowed me to double the polyphony available. However, I now have two X-Fi cards and cannot figure out how to install the software to get them both to show up as sound sources. The reason is to allow my to operate my three manual organ running four synths with sound fonts loaded. One card only allows 64 polyphony which is easily overrun with the resultant note drop outs when playing full chords on two keyboards with a full list of stops selected.
Any ideas?

Personally, I wouldn't change the prefs to copy music to a different iTunes music folder everytime.
As long as it is playable in iTunes, it doesn't matter which drive it is located on.
Just change it to the C: drive and add music.
1) i create a new folder in "C" for the music i want to store in C , and point itunes to this folder.
Yes.
2) i can move some of the current music in "I" to this new folder in "C".
Yes but it's not quite that simple. Once you move a song in iTunes via Windows Explorer, iTunes will ikely lose this link and ask you to point to it. Not aproblem if you move a few songs but if you do a lot, since you can only do them one at a time.
3) depending on the type of music i'm downloading, i set the path in the advanced settings to either "C" or "I".
If you want.
But I wouldn't.
If you start getting close to full on the internal (as a general rule you should keep at least 10%-15% free space on boot drive) and get a larger drive, set iTunes prefs to the new drive then File Library -> Consolidate to copy everything the new drive.
Then you can delete the iTunes music folders on the C: and I: drives.

Xfi extreme music pci - chassis connect

Hi guys, I would like to connect my chassis (CM stacker 830)front audio panel so that I can plug my headsets. My chassis supports AC'97 and azalia (HD audio) connectors. Is there a way to connect the chassis to this sound card.
BTW I have a maximus extreme mobo, and I removed the sound card that came with it.

Like to know how you managed to get the card in Game Mode seeing as it doesn't even support it. Then again that card was never marketed as a gaming card, or are you seeing something in the specifications,
http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=209&subcategory=669&product=5 855&nav=technicalSpecifications
that I am missing?
Also don't even bother with hardware mode in game as there is no hardware on the card (EMU20K2), software mode only.

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