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Olde Sound Card Needs Driver Badly [Solved: See last post]

CorvusCorvus Caw?VancouverRegistered User regular
edited November 2007 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Due to some recent stupidity with XP and my network connections vanishing, I had to do a repair installation of the OS, which fortunately rectified that problem. However, now XP doesn't want to recognize my sound card, which according to device manager is an SB Live Value (WDM). What the WDM stands for, I'm not sure.

Creative's website has not been particularly helpful, and the drivers I've downloaded from it, when I run them, tell me that they cant find a supported device.

Can anyone suggest a website or software I could use that would scan and tell me exactly what driver I need? Or maybe a place that makes alternative sound card drivers, like the Omega Drivers for video?

Thanks!

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  • KarennaKarenna Registered User
    edited November 2007
    From what I was just looking at, the file you need is: LiveDrvUni-Pack(ENG).exe
    Run a google search for it, there's plenty of places to grab it.

    Unfortunately, Creative stopped support for most of their older cards with the release of Vista, so as nice as it is to keep using the same good old sound card, it might be time to upgrade. D:

    ...I was rebuilding a (really) old system with a monster AWE32 card in it, and was having the same lack-of-driver issues, so I feel for ya...good luck.

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  • DrFrylockDrFrylock Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Device manager doesn't really tell you what hardware you have installed. It tells you what drivers you have installed. So, you have drivers installed for a Sound Blaster Live (WDM) (WDM = Windows Driver Model). So you already have drivers for Sound Blaster Live installed. Whether or not that's what you actually have in your machine is a separate issue. Is the device detected? Is there a little yellow ? or a red X next to the icon in Device Manager?

    If a device is installed that Windows detects but doesn't know quite what it is, Windows will usually put it under Unknown Devices or somesuch as just "PCI Sound Card."

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  • CorvusCorvus Caw? VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Thanks for the help guys. I ended up dropping by Best Buy today and they were clearing out Xmod's for a steal (39.99), so I just picked one of those up since it may be useful with the new laptop I'm planning on getting. It seems to work alright as a USB sound card.

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