Audigy 2 drivers

[Jason425]

I just reformatted.. and installed xp pro.. no drivers at all for my audigy 2 anywhere for me that i can find. All drivers assume you already have drivers installed and are updates.. My ears are losing it, help! (btw i cant find my cd tahts why i havent installed)

http://www.americas.creative.com/support/

drivers are on the web
u lazy bum :P

[Jason425]

no i'm not a lazy bum! that was the first place i went.. i go to install those and it says these are wdm drivers, vxd are detected, install wdm and try again.. in other words they say install with the cd first. last time this happened i was lucky enough to find the cd in a rar file somewhere, i cant find it this time.

you can always order the cd from them on the website
but if the problem is winxp auto loading a driver then do the following

restart and go to safe mode...

then install the drivers from safe mode
and restart then go to safe mode again
then reboot to normal windows

its a bit painful combating the winxp's auto driver install...

good luck

btw incase u dont know, hold F8 2 secs after boot up
and choose safe mode

oh also... i havent tried this but
you can try the "english driver pack"

see if it differs from the WDM

[Jason425]

The "multimedia audio controller" is the audigy2, the drivers are on the desktop... I think the pci input device is a controller i haven't got around to setting up.

make sure there are no IRQ conflicts
it is seated properly
and you have downloaded the appropriate drivers
audigy 2 platinum
audigy 2 platinum ex
or just audigy 2

or even audigy 1

[Jason425]

since i've made the attempt of downloading and installing what were labled audigy 2 drivers from many different places, that is out of the question, i took it out and put it back in, no difference.. and when i had the cd it worked.. the stuff that installs with the cd is well over that 7 mb.. i don't understand why this wouldnt be availible to download.. i went to tech support at creative and they probably wont respond until monday.. i havent found anywhere to order the cd from creative either.. maybe i should have listened to everybody and got a turtle beach card..

I just spoke with their tech support about the exact same problem.

The tech support guy said exactly what you said about the drivers on the website. THEY ARE UPDATES! Not drivers! To install the drivers after a clean install YOU NEED the CD. I have yet found a way around this and am calling 1-800-998-1000 to order a new damn cd.

If anyone get's around this please email me.
Thanks.

quickone_fxp@yahoo.com

The way to get around this is to choose "update driver" on the Multimedia Audio Controller in the Hardware panel, and choose "install driver manually." Then install the SBLive! driver embedded in Windows 2000/XP. Restart your computer, and then install the Audigy 2 update. It'll work. You just have to install the wrong driver, initially. Yay Creative for making this so needlessly complicated. Heaven forbid they release driver packs.