audigy 2 drivers

have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message

have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message

The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

Care to post the steps? I have an Audigy 2ZS and my initial attempts to install failed, so I went back to onboard audio until they come out with new drivers... How about the firewire connection?
"Michael Styles" wrote in message

I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

I cannot get Audio 2ZS to install either. ''No audio device installed". I know it is because it works in XP on my other drive. It also worked in Vista Beta 2 when I did an up grade install. I now have a clean install and no sound yet.
What is the ''onboard audio"? - that is new to me.
Thanks for the info.
Bill
"Zapper" wrote in message

Care to post the steps? I have an Audigy 2ZS and my initial attempts to install failed, so I went back to onboard audio until they come out with new drivers... How about the firewire connection?
"Michael Styles" wrote in message I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

What is your motherboard? You can visit the mobo or computer maker's website and it should tell what the integrated sound device is. Someone here may be able to help also.
"Bill" wrote in message

I cannot get Audio 2ZS to install either. ''No audio device installed". I know it is because it works in XP on my other drive. It also worked in Vista Beta 2 when I did an up grade install. I now have a clean install and no sound yet.
What is the ''onboard audio"? - that is new to me.
Thanks for the info.
Bill
"Zapper" wrote in message Care to post the steps? I have an Audigy 2ZS and my initial attempts to install failed, so I went back to onboard audio until they come out with new drivers... How about the firewire connection?
"Michael Styles" wrote in message I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

I have Dell XPS Gen 5 0 I'll have to look up the integrated sound - thanks for the info

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

What is your motherboard? You can visit the mobo or computer maker's website and it should tell what the integrated sound device is. Someone here may be able to help also.
"Bill" wrote in message I cannot get Audio 2ZS to install either. ''No audio device installed". I know it is because it works in XP on my other drive. It also worked in Vista Beta 2 when I did an up grade install. I now have a clean install and no sound yet.
What is the ''onboard audio"? - that is new to me.
Thanks for the info.
Bill
"Zapper" wrote in message Care to post the steps? I have an Audigy 2ZS and my initial attempts to install failed, so I went back to onboard audio until they come out with new drivers... How about the firewire connection?
"Michael Styles" wrote in message I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

I doubt it has onboard sound. Looks like their high end system.. $4K list...OUCH!!!!!
"Bill" wrote in message

I have Dell XPS Gen 5 0 I'll have to look up the integrated sound - thanks for the info

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message What is your motherboard? You can visit the mobo or computer maker's website and it should tell what the integrated sound device is. Someone here may be able to help also.
"Bill" wrote in message I cannot get Audio 2ZS to install either. ''No audio device installed". I know it is because it works in XP on my other drive. It also worked in Vista Beta 2 when I did an up grade install. I now have a clean install and no sound yet.
What is the ''onboard audio"? - that is new to me.
Thanks for the info.
Bill
"Zapper" wrote in message Care to post the steps? I have an Audigy 2ZS and my initial attempts to install failed, so I went back to onboard audio until they come out with new drivers... How about the firewire connection?
"Michael Styles" wrote in message I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

I have the same problem with the 2zs. I have attempted both the xp drivers as well as the creative vista beta drivers with no luck. "Zapper" wrote in message

I doubt it has onboard sound. Looks like their high end system.. $4K list...OUCH!!!!!
"Bill" wrote in message I have Dell XPS Gen 5 0 I'll have to look up the integrated sound - thanks for the info

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message What is your motherboard? You can visit the mobo or computer maker's website and it should tell what the integrated sound device is. Someone here may be able to help also.
"Bill" wrote in message I cannot get Audio 2ZS to install either. ''No audio device installed". I know it is because it works in XP on my other drive. It also worked in Vista Beta 2 when I did an up grade install. I now have a clean install and no sound yet.
What is the ''onboard audio"? - that is new to me.
Thanks for the info.
Bill
"Zapper" wrote in message Care to post the steps? I have an Audigy 2ZS and my initial attempts to install failed, so I went back to onboard audio until they come out with new drivers... How about the firewire connection?
"Michael Styles" wrote in message I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

Zapper,
I think you are right - no on board sound. When I ordered it I had the choice of integrated or Sound Blaster Audigy, I went with the Audigy because I had their products before and was happy. That and the fact ''Sound Blaster'' is such a cool name<G>.
Not quite 4K <G> - I don't have any high end video stuff on here - I like ''light and fast"
I have XP on a separate drive and the sound card works fine there - Vista is my ''play with'' drive. I can now boot to either drive thanks to the extended help of the people at the VistaBootPro site.

"Zapper" wrote in message

I doubt it has onboard sound. Looks like their high end system.. $4K list...OUCH!!!!!
"Bill" wrote in message I have Dell XPS Gen 5 0 I'll have to look up the integrated sound - thanks for the info

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message What is your motherboard? You can visit the mobo or computer maker's website and it should tell what the integrated sound device is. Someone here may be able to help also.
"Bill" wrote in message I cannot get Audio 2ZS to install either. ''No audio device installed". I know it is because it works in XP on my other drive. It also worked in Vista Beta 2 when I did an up grade install. I now have a clean install and no sound yet.
What is the ''onboard audio"? - that is new to me.
Thanks for the info.
Bill
"Zapper" wrote in message Care to post the steps? I have an Audigy 2ZS and my initial attempts to install failed, so I went back to onboard audio until they come out with new drivers... How about the firewire connection?
"Michael Styles" wrote in message I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

Ron,
went to the Creative site to get the Vista Beta drivers - couldn't install needed Microflash booted to the XP drive, got the drivers - copied them to the Vista drive installed them, after being asked twice if I wanted to, and I had sound - life was good came to the newsgroup to make this post - keyboard didn't work - life was bad decided to try ''system restore'' - it showed a point right before making the driver installation so I restored. machine booted back to default XP, check keyboard, it worked, re-booted to Vista got: "some kind of error happened to restore, please shut down restore blah blah blah yada yada yada" (this is not an EXACT quote<G>) - life sucked AGAIN clicked my way though the warning boxes, Vista came to life and the keyboard works AND there is sound - life is good - for now I have sound as of 9:32 AM 6/23/2006 (I may also have sent some blank post to this group by mistake during my experimenting if so - my bad - sorry)
Bill

"Ron L. Giles" wrote in message

I have the same problem with the 2zs. I have attempted both the xp drivers as well as the creative vista beta drivers with no luck. "Zapper" wrote in message I doubt it has onboard sound. Looks like their high end system.. $4K list...OUCH!!!!!
"Bill" wrote in message I have Dell XPS Gen 5 0 I'll have to look up the integrated sound - thanks for the info

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message What is your motherboard? You can visit the mobo or computer maker's website and it should tell what the integrated sound device is. Someone here may be able to help also.
"Bill" wrote in message I cannot get Audio 2ZS to install either. ''No audio device installed". I know it is because it works in XP on my other drive. It also worked in Vista Beta 2 when I did an up grade install. I now have a clean install and no sound yet.
What is the ''onboard audio"? - that is new to me.
Thanks for the info.
Bill
"Zapper" wrote in message Care to post the steps? I have an Audigy 2ZS and my initial attempts to install failed, so I went back to onboard audio until they come out with new drivers... How about the firewire connection?
"Michael Styles" wrote in message I got the Audigy ZS drivers to work for beta 2, but without gameport functions.
"Zapper" wrote in message The Creative drivers are for Beta 1...as you found out, they do not work on Beta 2. I would suggest you SEARCH this forum with the word creative. There have been a few people who say they have been able to install XP drivers by jumping through hoops...

"JaSonic" wrote in message have got the vista beta drivers from creative, but no matter how many times i install, when i restart all i get is 'no audio output device is installed'
Have tried 3 other sound cards and i can't for the life of me get any sound working on this computer.
The creative sound card worked super fine on xp before the vista upgrade.
Am running vista build 5384 if that means any thing to you guys?

I installed the Beta 1 32bit drivers fine on build 5384, to my knowledge they are the same driver for the 64bit and 32bit versions. It worked fine until I launched Media Center then sound died, i restarted and was prompted to install the drivers for the Multimedia Device and Unknown Device. The steps I used to fix this were as follows. Downlod the Beta 1 driver from Creative Support website. Start the install Alt+Tab out to C:\Windows\Temp (or other Temporary Directory for your Current User) Copy the CRF000 folder and its contents to your root C: Drive. Right Click My Computer Click Properties Click Device Manager Click Ok if prompted to run as Administrator Double Click the Multimedia Device Click Reinstall Driver Click Browse My computer for Drivers Browse to the C:\CRF000 Drictory and click Ok Put a check mark in the box for Include Subfolders, and click next It should recognize your card and youll hear sound before rebooting. For me I hear crackling when ANY kind of load is put on the machine, Open a browser refresh a page, open a new window, and even closing windows. Tested this on several different players and sound processors. As for ONBOARD sound, system resources are indeed used by using these devices. It takes a percentage of the CPU and System Memory to support the onboard devices your computer has, video much more so successfully cutting your system performance in as much as half in worse cases even more. Test it out, Go into your Bios disable your onboard sound, and launch your favorite game with a program to display FPS (frames per second), or even just experiencing the difference yourself. Hope this helps you all. *bows*

My eternal thanks for the step by step instructions to installing a working driver for my soundcard. I have spent 4 hours today with no luck until I came to your posting. I thought I would be smart enough that I downloaded the XP 64 drivers and installed them and everything looks good other than there is no sound coming out of my system. I hope the Creative guys get it straight and update their beta so it can work for the Beta 2 Be well
"fyrye" wrote:

I installed the Beta 1 32bit drivers fine on build 5384, to my knowledge they are the same driver for the 64bit and 32bit versions. It worked fine until I launched Media Center then sound died, i restarted and was prompted to install the drivers for the Multimedia Device and Unknown Device. The steps I used to fix this were as follows. Downlod the Beta 1 driver from Creative Support website. Start the install Alt+Tab out to C:\Windows\Temp (or other Temporary Directory for your Current User) Copy the CRF000 folder and its contents to your root C: Drive. Right Click My Computer Click Properties Click Device Manager Click Ok if prompted to run as Administrator Double Click the Multimedia Device Click Reinstall Driver Click Browse My computer for Drivers Browse to the C:\CRF000 Drictory and click Ok Put a check mark in the box for Include Subfolders, and click next It should recognize your card and youll hear sound before rebooting. For me I hear crackling when ANY kind of load is put on the machine, Open a browser refresh a page, open a new window, and even closing windows. Tested this on several different players and sound processors. As for ONBOARD sound, system resources are indeed used by using these devices. It takes a percentage of the CPU and System Memory to support the onboard devices your computer has, video much more so successfully cutting your system performance in as much as half in worse cases even more. Test it out, Go into your Bios disable your onboard sound, and launch your favorite game with a program to display FPS (frames per second), or even just experiencing the difference yourself. Hope this helps you all. *bows*

Well for all of those that are just as frustrated as I was here is a bit of relief. I spent 6 hours trying to fight this system and as all great discoveries this just came as if from heaven. I am using an an HP Pavillion and decided to install an Audigy 2 Value soundcard. At first after finishing my installation of Vista 64 it notified me that there was no driver for my sound card. I went to the Creative site and downloaded their beta driver for Vista. I ran the Vista 64 and it did not complete saying that my software was not supported by it. It seems that it was designed for the beta 1 of Vista and they have to update it. After a while I decided to see if I could reinstall the XP 64 driver and all went great with the exception that there was no sound coming out . I knew that something was going right because it asked me if I wanted to re-install the driver and also at the end of the installation the speaker icon had some green colored waves coming out of it. Frustrated I decided to re-install the Vista 64 driver on top of the XP drivers and after two attempts voila great sound!!! Sound was coming out of it as if by a miracle. …old windows theme I must warn you! The sound is of good quality. But there is only one thing and that is my microphone is not working right. Does anyone have a suggestion for this problem? Also to let you know I have not been able to install all of the creative applications so I decided to un-install them. I want to take advantage of the speech recognition software built in. It worked for me before I hope they have not messed with it too much I hope that this helps some people out there. Now if I could figure out how to import my Outlook contacts, the import feature is not working for me.
Hector
"Hector" wrote:

My eternal thanks for the step by step instructions to installing a working driver for my soundcard. I have spent 4 hours today with no luck until I came to your posting. I thought I would be smart enough that I downloaded the XP 64 drivers and installed them and everything looks good other than there is no sound coming out of my system. I hope the Creative guys get it straight and update their beta so it can work for the Beta 2 Be well
"fyrye" wrote:
I installed the Beta 1 32bit drivers fine on build 5384, to my knowledge they are the same driver for the 64bit and 32bit versions. It worked fine until I launched Media Center then sound died, i restarted and was prompted to install the drivers for the Multimedia Device and Unknown Device. The steps I used to fix this were as follows. Downlod the Beta 1 driver from Creative Support website. Start the install Alt+Tab out to C:\Windows\Temp (or other Temporary Directory for your Current User) Copy the CRF000 folder and its contents to your root C: Drive. Right Click My Computer Click Properties Click Device Manager Click Ok if prompted to run as Administrator Double Click the Multimedia Device Click Reinstall Driver Click Browse My computer for Drivers Browse to the C:\CRF000 Drictory and click Ok Put a check mark in the box for Include Subfolders, and click next It should recognize your card and youll hear sound before rebooting. For me I hear crackling when ANY kind of load is put on the machine, Open a browser refresh a page, open a new window, and even closing windows. Tested this on several different players and sound processors. As for ONBOARD sound, system resources are indeed used by using these devices. It takes a percentage of the CPU and System Memory to support the onboard devices your computer has, video much more so successfully cutting your system performance in as much as half in worse cases even more. Test it out, Go into your Bios disable your onboard sound, and launch your favorite game with a program to display FPS (frames per second), or even just experiencing the difference yourself. Hope this helps you all. *bows*