soundblaster audigy 2 family sound cards x86

In my particular scenario I was unable to install the Vista Beta 2 drivers due to it timing out. Given the advice of many others on this site I tried the XP drivers but they failed to load as well. Anyways on to the process. Although I used this method to get the Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card to work, it should work for the entire Audigy 2 family of sound cards.
1. Download the XP version of your sound card. 2. Extract the files to a folder. 3. Reboot in Safe Mode. 4. Open up Device Manager. 5. Update driver by pointing to the folder containing the XP driver. 6. Reboot in normal mode. 7. Installation completes itself.
Hope that helps some out there.

Chris, Yep, I get the installation to complete - but still no sound!
"Chris Rennie" wrote:

In my particular scenario I was unable to install the Vista Beta 2 drivers due to it timing out. Given the advice of many others on this site I tried the XP drivers but they failed to load as well. Anyways on to the process. Although I used this method to get the Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card to work, it should work for the entire Audigy 2 family of sound cards.
1. Download the XP version of your sound card. 2. Extract the files to a folder. 3. Reboot in Safe Mode. 4. Open up Device Manager. 5. Update driver by pointing to the folder containing the XP driver. 6. Reboot in normal mode. 7. Installation completes itself.
Hope that helps some out there.

The hardest part for me was getting the installation completed. After that it was just a matter of playing around with the onboard sound. Some state that it needs to be disabled, but for me I left it enabled. Give that a try.
One thing to note: Even when it is installed, you may notice that on every reboot it will spend about a minute finishing the installation process.
"imacken" wrote:

Chris, Yep, I get the installation to complete - but still no sound!
"Chris Rennie" wrote:
In my particular scenario I was unable to install the Vista Beta 2 drivers due to it timing out. Given the advice of many others on this site I tried the XP drivers but they failed to load as well. Anyways on to the process. Although I used this method to get the Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card to work, it should work for the entire Audigy 2 family of sound cards.
1. Download the XP version of your sound card. 2. Extract the files to a folder. 3. Reboot in Safe Mode. 4. Open up Device Manager. 5. Update driver by pointing to the folder containing the XP driver. 6. Reboot in normal mode. 7. Installation completes itself.
Hope that helps some out there.

I had to disable my onboard sound before the card would work.
"Chris Rennie" wrote:

The hardest part for me was getting the installation completed. After that it was just a matter of playing around with the onboard sound. Some state that it needs to be disabled, but for me I left it enabled. Give that a try.
One thing to note: Even when it is installed, you may notice that on every reboot it will spend about a minute finishing the installation process.
"imacken" wrote:
Chris, Yep, I get the installation to complete - but still no sound!
"Chris Rennie" wrote:
In my particular scenario I was unable to install the Vista Beta 2 drivers due to it timing out. Given the advice of many others on this site I tried the XP drivers but they failed to load as well. Anyways on to the process. Although I used this method to get the Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card to work, it should work for the entire Audigy 2 family of sound cards.
1. Download the XP version of your sound card. 2. Extract the files to a folder. 3. Reboot in Safe Mode. 4. Open up Device Manager. 5. Update driver by pointing to the folder containing the XP driver. 6. Reboot in normal mode. 7. Installation completes itself.
Hope that helps some out there.

My onboard sound is always disabled. I just can't get this to work. The card seems to be installed OK in Device Manager, but no sound at all! Could it be something else?
"durvish" wrote:

I had to disable my onboard sound before the card would work.
"Chris Rennie" wrote:
The hardest part for me was getting the installation completed. After that it was just a matter of playing around with the onboard sound. Some state that it needs to be disabled, but for me I left it enabled. Give that a try.
One thing to note: Even when it is installed, you may notice that on every reboot it will spend about a minute finishing the installation process.
"imacken" wrote:
Chris, Yep, I get the installation to complete - but still no sound!
"Chris Rennie" wrote:
In my particular scenario I was unable to install the Vista Beta 2 drivers due to it timing out. Given the advice of many others on this site I tried the XP drivers but they failed to load as well. Anyways on to the process. Although I used this method to get the Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card to work, it should work for the entire Audigy 2 family of sound cards.
1. Download the XP version of your sound card. 2. Extract the files to a folder. 3. Reboot in Safe Mode. 4. Open up Device Manager. 5. Update driver by pointing to the folder containing the XP driver. 6. Reboot in normal mode. 7. Installation completes itself.
Hope that helps some out there.

When checking out the volume shortcut in the taskbar does it show the Audigy Device?
"imacken" wrote:

My onboard sound is always disabled. I just can't get this to work. The card seems to be installed OK in Device Manager, but no sound at all! Could it be something else?
"durvish" wrote:
I had to disable my onboard sound before the card would work.
"Chris Rennie" wrote:
The hardest part for me was getting the installation completed. After that it was just a matter of playing around with the onboard sound. Some state that it needs to be disabled, but for me I left it enabled. Give that a try.
One thing to note: Even when it is installed, you may notice that on every reboot it will spend about a minute finishing the installation process.
"imacken" wrote:
Chris, Yep, I get the installation to complete - but still no sound!
"Chris Rennie" wrote:
In my particular scenario I was unable to install the Vista Beta 2 drivers due to it timing out. Given the advice of many others on this site I tried the XP drivers but they failed to load as well. Anyways on to the process. Although I used this method to get the Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum sound card to work, it should work for the entire Audigy 2 family of sound cards.
1. Download the XP version of your sound card. 2. Extract the files to a folder. 3. Reboot in Safe Mode. 4. Open up Device Manager. 5. Update driver by pointing to the folder containing the XP driver. 6. Reboot in normal mode. 7. Installation completes itself.
Hope that helps some out there.