Creative sound blaster x-fi drivers - system crash

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BoneyN

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I have a MESH computer and have just run the system recovery disk provided by them. Running this installs my copy of Windows XP Media Center edition. The problem is that everytime i try to install the multimedia drivers the system crashes and once this happens i cannot even get back into XP in safe mode and so I end up having to do a complete reinstall again...

I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Sound Card, I have the official disk but when this is run through device manager to try and install the drivers the sytem just crashes.

Does anyone know of a solution to this?I've never had a problem with it before the reinstall. Given I've just reinstalled I have reformatted the Hard drive and its the first thing I load in the new version of XP so i'm not even connected to the net etc so I know there is no chance of viruses etc.
 
The drivers that come on the disc with your card are most likely out of date by the time you get it. I'm not sure right off hand why you are all of a sudden having troubles, but I have a few thoughts. You should first try downloading the latest drivers from Creative in any case.

As for the trouble popping up now, have you changed/added any other hardware since you first got the computer or installed the X-Fi? Did your computer originally come with the X-Fi or did you add this later?
 
I have had this problem and it has nothing to do with the drivers. You have a corrupt onboard memory on that sound card. RMA it.
 
bigfellla said:
I have had this problem and it has nothing to do with the drivers. You have a corrupt onboard memory on that sound card. RMA it.
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Good observation. Not all X-Fi cards come with the extra on-card sound memory though.

BoneyM, does this X-Fi card in question come with the X-Ram?

Or, bigfellla, is this an issue that all X-Fi based cards could have regardless of the on-board RAM?
 
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