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I built a new system last weekend, the specs are in my signiture. I was never able to get my X-FI extreme Gamer card to work. I am running Windows Vista 64 bit and I loaded the latest drivers from Creative, but the card would never work. The card was visible in device manager, but the message said the the driver was unable to start.

My question is does anyone know a way to get this card to work with Vista Ultimate 64? Plus my motherboard (ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus) came with a SoundMax integrated digital HD sound card. Is the X-FI card enough better than the bundled card to even be worth the trouble?

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did you disable the onboard audio ?

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Most likely you need to go into the BIOS and disable the onboard sound. Until you do that, the onboard sound will over rule the X-Fi card. I can't tell you for sure if the onboard SoundMax is any better. It depends a lot on the quality of your speakers. Onboard cards will, as a rule, slow down the computer a bit as they force the CPU to do the work that the ad-on card does.

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I don't think that the sound card that shipped with the motherboard counts as on board sound. It is a seperate card that plugs into a dedicated expansion slot. If you don't plug it in, there is no sound. I didn't see any option in the bios to turn it off. I believe that if I don't want to use it I simply don't install it. When I was trying to install the X-FI card, the SoundMax card was not installed. I will look into my bios more closely though to see if there is an applicable setting in case I'm wrong.


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