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Shaun_Daly · 06-18-2009, 01:48 AM

Hi, thanks for replying.

I tested the card in my sisters very old PC last night (XP Professional) - XP did detect the card.

However, after installing the drivers from the CD that came with the card, the XP machine would just hang on booting. My sister wasnt amused.

I had to boot the XP machine into safemode & remove the drivers & card to get the machine to boot properly.

I still havent managed to get a beep out of the soundcard yet.

Because of the STOP 0x124 errors I was getting I have recently purchased Drivercure & have updated drivers for everything - so much so that Vista started telling me to reactivate "because of new hardware" (this was before I put the new soundcard in!)

I have an old PC handy which I was going to test W7 on, I will first try a test install of XP on that with the Auzentech to see if I can get any sound at all.

Even if I do the original problem still remains - my Vista PC/MSI K7N motherboard will not detect the presence of the Auzentech X-Fi soundcard but will happily detect the Creative X-Fi.

I must admit I didnt remove the original X-Fi drivers (been building/upgrading PC's for many years & thats never caused me a problem before).

Guess thats worth trying next.

06-18-2009, 01:48 AM	#3 (permalink)
Shaun_Daly Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Vista Home Premiun SP2	Re: Vista not detecting Auzentech soundcard. Hi, thanks for replying. I tested the card in my sisters very old PC last night (XP Professional) - XP did detect the card. However, after installing the drivers from the CD that came with the card, the XP machine would just hang on booting. My sister wasnt amused. I had to boot the XP machine into safemode & remove the drivers & card to get the machine to boot properly. I still havent managed to get a beep out of the soundcard yet. Because of the STOP 0x124 errors I was getting I have recently purchased Drivercure & have updated drivers for everything - so much so that Vista started telling me to reactivate "because of new hardware" (this was before I put the new soundcard in!) I have an old PC handy which I was going to test W7 on, I will first try a test install of XP on that with the Auzentech to see if I can get any sound at all. Even if I do the original problem still remains - my Vista PC/MSI K7N motherboard will not detect the presence of the Auzentech X-Fi soundcard but will happily detect the Creative X-Fi. I must admit I didnt remove the original X-Fi drivers (been building/upgrading PC's for many years & thats never caused me a problem before). Guess thats worth trying next.