Audigy 2 is messed up?

Hey guys,

damn.. I never knew audigy series had soo many bugs in its history.. Ive been surfing the web and read posts by people having all sorts of problems with the cards...

well anyway the problem I am having is basically summed up by this guy who posted on some forum, Ill just copy and paste it here, it basically describes it really simple, haha i wrote a LONG LONG email to creative support.. hehe

I hope someone could help me fix, I would hate to just return this card and go back to my old SB Live card =(..

SCARFACE POSTED:

I'M HOPING SOMEBODY CAN HELP ME W/MY PROBLEM JUST BOUGHT AUDIGY 2 HAD SOUNDBLASTER LIVE...WELL KNOW MY COMPUTER DETECTS IT BUT HARDWARE WILL NOT INSTALL TRIED UN-INSTALL AND RE-INSTALL COUPLE OF TIMES BUT WITH NO LUCK....IT CONSTANTLY SHOWS (THERE WAS A PROBLEM INSTALLING THIS HARDWARE ..CUZ MULTIMEDIA CONTROLER/ PCI INPUT DEVICE/ IEEE 1394 CONTROLLER AND DATA IS INVALID.... CAN ANYBODY HELP ME.....GETTING READY TO SEND THIS @!#$ BACK....NO PROBLEM WITH SOUND BLASTER LIVE.....

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Therre we have it.. =D

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EDITED 01/11/2003 4:48 AM

Hi again, I finnaly found the answer to my problem, just wanted to post it herre in case others needed help as well =D

Why do I get the message "data is invalid" when installing a device driver under Windows XP?

This error appears to be due to a protection problem in the Windows registry and can occur with a variety of drivers (sound cards and SCSI drivers have been reported). To fix this problem, go to Start, Run... and type "regedit" without the quotes to run the Registry Editor. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ENUM\PCI

and you will see a number of keys of the form "VEN_xxxx", where xxxx are strings like "1102&DEV_0004&SUBSYS_00011103&REV_04". Under each of these folders will be another folder with a long numerical name. Open each folder and look for the "DeviceDesc" which matches the hardware you are trying to install. Right Click on the "VEN_xxxx" for that device and select 'Permissions' and then tick "Allow" for "Full Control". Close Regedit and then continue with the installation of your device.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by ghowthoo on 01/11/03 04:49 AM.</EM></FONT></P>