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RE: Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (Windows WDDM Drivers)

kingofnexus — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:41:51 GMT

Recent Microsoft updates disabled driver signing. You need to uninstall KB932596 and KB938979 as well.

RE: Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (Windows WDDM Drivers)

s32ialx — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:52:44 GMT

I`d love to use creative`s end of life drivers for vista (cough) i mean XP but since release of vista u can no longer run xp drivers for vista with proper support because u need Open AL Support and unfortunately XP does not have Open AL Support...

any suggestions?

Sempron x64 2600+
1GB DDR1
160GB Primary
Gforce 6200A
Vista Ultimate x64
Motherboard is
Compaq - K8S-LA (I think) no Asus Support for the board as it`s a proprietary Compaq board
Sound Blaster Live 5.1 24bit
Onboard Realtek ALC658

so here is my total delema
I got the WDDM Drivers working for the SBL but then it craped out.... now it won`t detect in any of my PCI Slots i haven`t tested to see is the slots are toast but the cards not because it works in my other computer... so i re-enabled my Onboard no WDDM drivers from M$ for it... so realtek.com.tw it is... i download the AC`97 vista x64 drivers installs fine speaker (beside clock) has volume now not a red circle with a white x.... no audio....ok failed attempt so i remove tho`s drivers completely even with registry... install the HD realtek drivers installs fine well minus the fact they (were not designed for my chipset) speaker has volume and the "device is working correctly" well? I really do not know what to do... and yes i have driver signing completely disabled

RE: Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (Windows WDDM Drivers)

cyclic — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:02:37 GMT

Personal experiences recently has made me shun all 'windows' update drivers as they have wreaked havoc with systems, I would suggest using only the latest Creative drivers.

Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (Windows WDDM Drivers)

s32ialx — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:42:12 GMT

I've downloaded the Sound Blaster live 5.1 drivers from Windows Updates... but i am not getting any feedback for audio... any suggestions anyone? yes all basic and sum advanced trouble shooting has been done...
i'm running vista ultimate x64

if u need any more info please lemme know