Like the description says i've bought this new card and installed in in my system. It appears as a "multimedia audio device" under other devices instead of sound devices. I have win 8 64bit 8gb ram i7 2600k. I've tried installing the drivers from creative's site but the drivers after installation say that it cant find creative device on the system and exits. Ive seen people say that using a third party modified driver might help but ive tried them all inculding the new ones for win 8 and some that were recently uploaded on creative supports own site too but windows still doesnt recognize my soundcard as a soundcard at all nethter do the drivers. Please someone help me!
Windows isnt recognizing Creative sb460 xi fi extreme music as a sound card
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C12Friedman
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I'll suggest following this guide http://www.ehow.com/how_6308592_change-adding-pci-sound-card.html - see where you get
ok ive disabled the onboard device, uninstalled all drivers for sb460, retarted pc, reinstalled, restarted. The driver is here and it asks me to update but when i do it say creative labs cant find any creative devices attached to your pc... In manage devices the soundcard is still under other devices as multimedia audio device....
ok i remember the first time i installed the card in my pc it was under sound by its own name creative xi-fi something but it had an exclaimation mark with it saying it lacked resources and that i should disable some other devices for this to work. I uninstalled it from there cuz i wanted to instal the new driver i had downloaded from the official website and ever since then its in other devices under the name "multimedia audio device" and no matter what i do it wont change. Please someone help me out ive been up all night trying to fix this and now my eyes are bleeding. Thanks
C12Friedman
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Okay, perhaps you can try physically removing the sound card, then removing all sound drivers. Restart the computer without the sound card installed. Once restarted, check device manager to ensure no warning markers are shown. If no problems found, turn off PC and reinstall sound card, go through re-install of the drivers. Hopefully, it'll rediscover itself that way (and you won't need to go through it again).
ko888
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As usual the AsRock manual for that motherboard is awful. It doesn't specify which IRQ is being shared between which slots. I didn't see anything in the manual about manually assigning an IRQ or reserving port address ranges for a PCI device.
The resource conflict, that Windows is indicating, may be an IRQ conflict with another device or there may be overlapping port addresses between devices. PCI is a legacy bus interface and doesn't necessarily play well with the PCI-E bus when resources are being shared between devices on each bus type.
The resource conflict, that Windows is indicating, may be an IRQ conflict with another device or there may be overlapping port addresses between devices. PCI is a legacy bus interface and doesn't necessarily play well with the PCI-E bus when resources are being shared between devices on each bus type.
ko888
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That's pretty much it unless you're willing to purchase a new PCI Express sound card.
BIOS routines assign the resources to the installed devices before the operating system even begins to load. Without access to any BIOS settings that would allow you to manually resolve conflicts you're out of luck.
Alright thanks for the help. At one point i could see the card under sounds in my device manager stating that resources were missing and that i'd have to disable some other device for this one to work. One last thing that i want to clarify; Apart from my graphics card, there's no other card installed on my board at all (not including the sound card). Is the on board sound card using resources even after i disabled it through bios? Or is it just my mobo messing around?
ko888
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Disabling onboard devices in the BIOS may not necessarily free up resources. It all depends on if the BIOS' resource assignment routines were written and tested properly by the motherboard designer/manufacturer's BIOS modifier.
Make sure you have the latest motherboard BIOS revision installed.
I have a high definition audio device in my dm but that one i disabled the day i installed my sound card and its been like that even since.
I just used a driver recognition software to check for my sound cards driver and it found one which when i installed got stuck in between and then my windows crashed with that blue screen error message saying something about unrecoverable errors lol.
I just used a driver recognition software to check for my sound cards driver and it found one which when i installed got stuck in between and then my windows crashed with that blue screen error message saying something about unrecoverable errors lol.
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