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Dr. Lawrence Ho
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July 26th, 2007 04:00
Sound Blaster updates
A number of Sound Blaster updates, one "critical" offering new improved drivers are available for my computer, XPS 410 running XP Media Edition. Is it safe to update? Will the updates be trouble free? I have a corrupted Creative file, chxfihklp.exe MFC App ver2.0.1.4 ctxfispk.dll.that I have stopped from auto loading.
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Posted July 27th, 2007 14:00
From experience... there is no such thing as a "Trouble Free" driver from Creative.
It's one of those "wait and see what happens on my system" updates. Every. Time. ;) WIsh it was better, but it isn't.
Peace
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Posted July 27th, 2007 20:00
Depends where you're getting the updates from. The Microsoft Update site pushed an updated driver on me about 2 weeks ago for SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit card in my 8400. It didn't work correctly. I could get either the audio card or the modem to work but not both after the update. Rolling back the audio driver in Device Manager didn't fix it. Ended up with a System Restore and reinstall of previous Soundblaster driver.
Ron
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Posted July 28th, 2007 00:00
I have all of the drivers from Creative for XP MCE 2005 currently installes on my ZPS700 for the XFi. The auto update classified my card as EXtreme Music, Fatal1ty, Gamer. The install was trouble frree and all of the consiles including THX are working properly. Just my experience.If you have problems with your current installed drivers, I would uninstall them first, then go to Guru3d and get the free version of DriverCleaner and clean the Creative drivers completely, and then download and install the Creative driver updates. Or reinstall the Dell drivers, check that they are working, and then install the Creative updates. Either should work. I just would not install over the top of already corrupted drivers.Regards - MichaelO
XPS700 - Black
E6700 1.4.1 Bios - OS XP MCE 2005
4GB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 667 Mhz
24 in Dell 2405FPW
768 Mb EVGA 8800GTX
XFI w/ Logitech Z-5450 5.1160
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Posted July 31st, 2007 07:00
a FYI...According to the Dell driver website the latest drivers (xtreme music) are a few months old.After ordering the Creative Vista CD the autoupdate offered me later drivers which are not on the Dell website (their recent ones are only for Xtreme Gamer).Might be worth it to use the update option?to get AEX in some games I have installed Creative Alchemy btw
OrdinaryMAN
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Posted July 26th, 2007 15:00
You'd be surprised to see how much info you can find from www.support.dell.com. I.E. guides for removing/installing parts, drivers, manuals for all specification needs, KB articles, etc. So before you post try searching the site to find the answer you are looking for.