EddieVenus
Technical User
If you happen to have a SB Audigy card in your machine and you open up your PC to add a new PCI card of whatever nature, only to return to windows not to have any sound or see the Audigy card in the Hardware properties then this post is for you.
I recently had a whole slew of problems with my XP box. Just to see if this is totally hardware dependant I will list the hardware to see if others with similar setups have had similar issues.
Gigabyte GA-7vRXP
Althlon XP 1800+
OCZ PC3000 366mhz DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 8500
SB Audigy Gamer
IBM 120gig HD
IBM 75xgp 40gig HD
Now I had issues with the video card too that prompted me to take the route I took with the sound card, which involves the registry, which some people still have issues with. Well if your sound card makes no sound and you keep getting a card called just Creative PCI (some numbers) (WDM) then you need to do this to fix it. First it is not your drivers or your card, or at least probably not. Just go into your Regedit and look for this key.
HKEY_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI
look in all the keys for a value equal to Creative PCI, that one is the one you need to delete. I don't know why this gets like this, but it has 2x for me now, and it worked for me 2x. After you delete that key, go back to the parent key, PCI, and go to its properties and make sure that its permissions are set for full controll, at least for admins. This last part is also the way you get the drivers to install when you get an error stating that the Driver data is invalid, but that is another story. I hope this helps at least one person, as I could not find this info anywhere online, or from Creative, so I wanted to share what I now know, and hopefully keep others from pulling out massive amounts of hair in the process.
Eddie
I recently had a whole slew of problems with my XP box. Just to see if this is totally hardware dependant I will list the hardware to see if others with similar setups have had similar issues.
Gigabyte GA-7vRXP
Althlon XP 1800+
OCZ PC3000 366mhz DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 8500
SB Audigy Gamer
IBM 120gig HD
IBM 75xgp 40gig HD
Now I had issues with the video card too that prompted me to take the route I took with the sound card, which involves the registry, which some people still have issues with. Well if your sound card makes no sound and you keep getting a card called just Creative PCI (some numbers) (WDM) then you need to do this to fix it. First it is not your drivers or your card, or at least probably not. Just go into your Regedit and look for this key.
HKEY_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI
look in all the keys for a value equal to Creative PCI, that one is the one you need to delete. I don't know why this gets like this, but it has 2x for me now, and it worked for me 2x. After you delete that key, go back to the parent key, PCI, and go to its properties and make sure that its permissions are set for full controll, at least for admins. This last part is also the way you get the drivers to install when you get an error stating that the Driver data is invalid, but that is another story. I hope this helps at least one person, as I could not find this info anywhere online, or from Creative, so I wanted to share what I now know, and hopefully keep others from pulling out massive amounts of hair in the process.
Eddie
