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XPS 410 & SB X-FI SOUND
Hi, back in Feb. I purchased an XPS-410 with Vista HP. While configuring the system to build I wanted to add a sound blaster X-FI sound card and was told that it wasn't available because of conflicts with Vista. So I ultimatly ended up with the on board sigma tel audio. The speakers I am running are Logitech Z5500 5.1 surround. Today just for kicks and nuk nuks I went to the Dell site, entered my service tag# and searched for parts and upgrades. I found the X-FI card listed as being compatible for my system. Has something changed with compatibility reciently? I try to keep up with this forum and have learned a lot from all of you, but I must of missed any threads about this. I checked out Sound blaster's site and it now says works with Vista. Under requirements it lists, Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset. How can I tell what I have? Thank you for any insight you can give me. CK
- I just installed a retail version of the X-fi Xtreme Music. No sound from SPDIF or anything. Are there any settings I need to adjust? I disabled the onboard sound, of course.I see two playback devices in Vista when I right click on the volume icon is systray-Speakers and SPDIF OUT....do the "speakers" need to be disabled if I want to use SDPIF? I've been out of the loop for a while....always used onboard sound but have the x-fi for free due to an amazon screwup. My computer is a couple days old.By the way, I have NO error messages and the green volume indicator seems to work-when winamp or WMP is playing a music files, it moves....just no sound.
Message Edited by MKVGTI on 08-30-2007 08:39 PM
MKVGTI says:when I right click on the volume icon is systray-Speakers and SPDIF OUT....do the "speakers" need to be disabled if I want to use SDPIF?
In mine Speakers has a green tick. Underneath written "creative SB X -Fi working."My SPDIF OUT is not clicked.snow- MKVGTI Wrote:By the way, I have NO error messages and the green volume indicator seems to work-when winamp or WMP is playing a music files, it moves....just no sound.--------------------------------After installing the sound card and software I had the same issue with no sound. I went to Dell tech support, entered my service tag # and downloaded the X-FI driver for my system. No problems since.
- R144728 is the driver that worked for me. Before I installed that driver I uninstalled the previous one. then I downloaded R144728.exe and saved it to my desktop. I restarted my computer then installed the driver from the desktop. Restarted once again and the sound was working. The only changes I made after that was to open the Creative Mode Switcher and switched the mode to entertainment.
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