Did you disable any onboard sound in the bios? Also, does your system boot without the card in? Maybe you shorted your board when you were installing it.
XtremeMusic won't work in my box
So I just got a Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic. Popped it into my box, and it wouldn't boot. It'd turn on, but just sit there, everything on. No screen ('No signal') and all the fans are on at 100%. Motherboard lights all stay on.
I've tried every PCI slot, and none of them work.
Slapped the card inside a box I got from my mom's friend to work on, and it works just fine. Is discovered by Windows and says I need to install the drivers.
Only differences are that her system is OEM (Dell) and mine is custom. She's on XP and I'm on Win7 beta as well.
My friend recommends BIOS updates, but I really don't feel that I should need to in order to fix this. But that's what I'm leaning towards
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Anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do?
I've tried every PCI slot, and none of them work.
Slapped the card inside a box I got from my mom's friend to work on, and it works just fine. Is discovered by Windows and says I need to install the drivers.
Only differences are that her system is OEM (Dell) and mine is custom. She's on XP and I'm on Win7 beta as well.
My friend recommends BIOS updates, but I really don't feel that I should need to in order to fix this. But that's what I'm leaning towards
Anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do?
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Did that as soon as I received the card.
Uninstalled Realtek HD drivers, reboot, disable onboard sound in BIOS. Turn, off computer, install card, sits there.
Computer boots just fine without the card.
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Brand new card, never installed any Creative drivers.
Originally Posted by IEATFISH  Did you disable any onboard sound in the bios? Also, does your system boot without the card in? Maybe you shorted your board when you were installing it. |
Uninstalled Realtek HD drivers, reboot, disable onboard sound in BIOS. Turn, off computer, install card, sits there.
Computer boots just fine without the card.
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Originally Posted by lenzo Just went through a similiar incident. My Xtreme Gamer X-Fi worked for a year, stopped working after a Vista 64 Service Pack 2 automatic download and install. Try updating the drivers. If that doesn't work, remove the card, go back to the on-board Realtec with a driver update. If that works, delete all Creative folders. Reinstall the card and driver disks and let it reconfigure itself. gL |
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Maybe boot into windows and THEN plug it in.
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I don't know what to tell you...BIOS update is the only idea I can think of assuming the card is not borked.
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Hahah I thought about doing that actually. I was just raging so hard 'cus I want ma sounds to be secsi when I play TF2
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I'll probably end up doing a BIOS flash to F11 if no one else has a better suggestion. If that doesn't do it, I'm probably going to rage into a coma.
Originally Posted by IEATFISH Maybe boot into windows and THEN plug it in.
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I'll probably end up doing a BIOS flash to F11 if no one else has a better suggestion. If that doesn't do it, I'm probably going to rage into a coma.
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See now I asked Licht what I should do, and he said force manual IRQs.
How do you do that?!
He left before I could ask though
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How do you do that?!
He left before I could ask though
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I know you're joking, but please don't do this
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Originally Posted by IEATFISH Maybe boot into windows and THEN plug it in.
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Well, guys, I've got another problem... My computer seems to be broken.
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So I'm thinking I'll have to do a BIOS flash today. I'll do it after church and see if that fixes anything.
Originally Posted by twistid I know you're joking, but please don't do this
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So I'm thinking I'll have to do a BIOS flash today. I'll do it after church and see if that fixes anything.
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