Saturday, March 22, 2008

Vista Service Pack 1 and Creative Audigy soundcard drivers

Yikes got ready to look for SP1 for my wife's PC and found she had one of the problem drivers! I have some choices, and it looks like there are no guarantees of success no matter what way I go. I will probably try throwing SP1 on and holding my breath first. If that fails then I will try the method of uninstalling the driver, loading SP1, and reinstalling the driver. If that fails then we get down and dirty..

The bottom line here is that Creative is clearly dropping the ball in the support area.

Technet overviews:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb968859.aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb738089.aspx

Vista SP1 on MS downloads:
http://www.microsoft.com/beta/downloads/Search.aspx?SearchText=vista+sp1http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B0C7136D-5EBB-413B-89C9-CB3D06D12674&displaylang=en

Kb articles:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936330
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=948343

Free MS sp1 help site:
http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx?rdpath=1&gprid=11732

Paul Thurrott covers it:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_sp1_ga.asp

Ed Bott covers it:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=400

Neowin covers it:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/03/20/why-installing-vista-sp1-might-fail-via-windows-update

The nightmare unfolds at Creative:
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=29957#M29957
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=29151#M29151
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&thread.id=29151&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
http://nomoregoatsoup.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/how-to-fully-uninstall-creative-vista-drivers-solve-install-problems/

Some other help on Creative drivers:
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=5936
http://www.youp-pax.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=13
http://nomoregoatsoup.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/unofficial-audigy-series-software-cd-for-win2000-xp-server-2003-vista-3264-bit/
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=30054#M30054

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