I built a computer back in august, and it has been working perfectly fine... However at the time I decided to just use the integrated Realtek audio on the motherboard i purchased (Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R). The integrated sound card has been a constant annoyance, so I finally decided to buy a cheap little creative sound card (Audigy SE) to stick in my computer.
I got the card, and installed it, then downloaded the proper drivers (windows XP)... But here is where i started running into a problem... when i tried to isntall the drivers, it said that it coudlnt find a supported product in the computer and stopped the installation.
Next I tried the drivers on the included CD. In the installation process, i got the same message, and said "ok", but then the installer continued isntalling some other Creative software, and when it finished, told me to restart. Upon restarting, the Creative Soundblaster showed up in the audio settings, and I gave it a shot, but everything seemed really odd - constant background humming, mic completely non-functional, etc... So I went into the Add/Remove Programs app, but there wasnt anything related to Creative or Soundblaster in there, other than "Creative Auto-updater", which I uninstalled. Upon restarting, the Sound Blaster option was gone from the audio settings, I seem to be back to square one. I have tried 3 different driver versions, and they all give me the same "cannot find a supported device" error. I have checked that the card is seated properly several times... I came to the conclusion that the card must be bad... But then I did something that has me even more confused...
I remembered I have an old Soundblaster Live X-Gamer card. which has been working perfectly fine in another computer... So I took that out, and put it in my new rig... When I booted up, windows gave me the usual "found new Multimedia Audio Device" popup, and I DLed the proper drivers... But when I tried to install them, I get the same "cannot find a supported device" error...
Anyone have any idea what might be wrong here? I am pretty stumped.
I got the card, and installed it, then downloaded the proper drivers (windows XP)... But here is where i started running into a problem... when i tried to isntall the drivers, it said that it coudlnt find a supported product in the computer and stopped the installation.
Next I tried the drivers on the included CD. In the installation process, i got the same message, and said "ok", but then the installer continued isntalling some other Creative software, and when it finished, told me to restart. Upon restarting, the Creative Soundblaster showed up in the audio settings, and I gave it a shot, but everything seemed really odd - constant background humming, mic completely non-functional, etc... So I went into the Add/Remove Programs app, but there wasnt anything related to Creative or Soundblaster in there, other than "Creative Auto-updater", which I uninstalled. Upon restarting, the Sound Blaster option was gone from the audio settings, I seem to be back to square one. I have tried 3 different driver versions, and they all give me the same "cannot find a supported device" error. I have checked that the card is seated properly several times... I came to the conclusion that the card must be bad... But then I did something that has me even more confused...
I remembered I have an old Soundblaster Live X-Gamer card. which has been working perfectly fine in another computer... So I took that out, and put it in my new rig... When I booted up, windows gave me the usual "found new Multimedia Audio Device" popup, and I DLed the proper drivers... But when I tried to install them, I get the same "cannot find a supported device" error...
Anyone have any idea what might be wrong here? I am pretty stumped.