audigy2 zs problems

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:38 am

i keep trying to install the drivers, but it keeps telling me that there's no audigy2 card plugged in. what the crap? i even changed pci slots and the same thing happens. i get a "found new hardware wizard" prompt and i try running it, but it doesn't install anything. i've tried everything that i know... anyone have any suggestions that i may have missed? anyone else have the same issues?

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:04 am

damn dude less than 12hrs and your already having problems with it.

honestly i dont have any suggestions other than hit the mfg site and see if there are any tech docs that go over problems like this.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:44 am

Sounds like it could be a bad sound card chipset or driver to me. If it were me, I would first try downloading the driver from Creative's website; I know there's been a couple of times I got components with driver disks that either had a corrupted or missing driver, or a flawed disk. If that doesn't work, before ditching the hardware, I would start sending some communication to Creative. I hope it works out man, because that's an expensive card to just go out in 12 hours, lol.

sbohdan · Post by **sbohdan** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:24 pm

I tell you what happened to me- maybe it helps. I had the same thing when first tried to overclock the CPU. I did not fix the AGP/PCI ratio in the bios (was on auto) and when OC-d I lost the sound. tried all kinds of things like you -to no avail. then I just thought I would put the CPU back to default even though it seemed to me there was no connection. anyway I did it an lo and behold my audio just came back. then I tried to OC again -was gone again. then I thought maybe the PCI doesnt like to run at 36 so I fixed the ratio at 66/33 and again- with the OC I still got the audio back. Im still not sure what the whole thing was about but it worked. so anyway- try to fix the AGP/PCI ratio- maybe it works for you too...

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:32 pm

well, i haven't overclocked anything, so i doubt it's the overclock scenario. i tried the download from creative's website... same message. i've tried everything. i tried installing the drivers manually, too. what i've decided to do is to reformat and hope it helps. i'm backing up a bunch of crap, right now.

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 5:33 pm

Have you tried the "Device Manager" screen? It should have a yellow icon for the card plugged in with no driver. If the yellow icon is there, put the driver CD in, hit the icon and then "update driver". If there is no yellow icon, then the card is probably bad.

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 5:36 pm

did it a million times...

there were some tips that worked for, apparently, everyone else except me that i found on some forum.

Download the SBA2_WEB64_LB_2_03_0004.exe file from the creative site. Run the installation and wait for it to come up with the confirmation box about closing all other applications first (two buttons [ok] and [cancel].
When it is at this point go back to your install from location hardware box and tell it to include the search path "C:\windows\temp\" in there look for a dir starting CRF000 or simular. Then browse to Drivers and wdm. Thus your include path should look something like ... "C:\WINDOWS\Temp\CRF000\Drivers\wdm". If you can't find this dir then search the windows temp directory for a folder called WDM and you will want the one containing the newest files.
Hit ok and windows will find the drivers in this dir and install them for you. Just point the rest of the game input device etc to the same folder and then cancel the creative installer and reboot.
Just like magic your sound card will be working. If you can't follow this then maybe you should just wait for creative to sort the problem out. =) It seems like a very common problem