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Pyromaniac
04-07-2010, 09:11 AM
I recently bought an unbranded sound card, which i suspect is quite old stock. The box just says 'PCI Sound Card' and '3D multimedia enjoyment'. There is a Driver CD provided, but i haven't been able to install from this. The contents is shown in the images;
http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww190/PyroBoy92/SB1.jpg

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww190/PyroBoy92/SB2.jpg

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww190/PyroBoy92/SB3.jpg

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww190/PyroBoy92/SB4.jpg

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww190/PyroBoy92/SB5.jpg
There is no autorun. Running any of the .exe files doesn't seem to work properly, and when i try to install manually through the .inf files i just get an assortment of errors. The device shows up as driverless in device manager, and using the PCI database website i get;
0x0006 Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (SB0200) 0x1102 Creative Technology LTD.
0x7004 Game port for SB Live! Series 0x1102 Creative Technology LTD.
The chip also has 'creative' written on it.
I am running Win7 64-bit Professional and i haven't been able to find a suitable driver yet, (not easy considering creative no longer seem to have a driver page on thier website).
Is there any way i can get this to install? Is there even a 64-bit driver in existance?

Any help greatly appreciated,
Luke

Fruss Tray Ted
04-07-2010, 10:47 AM
There's a folder in one of your pictures with Win 2K and XP in it's name so I would assume it only has drivers for those os'es.

Pyromaniac
04-07-2010, 11:26 AM
That was what i suspected. Are drivers transferrable between OS's? These are probably all 32-bit anyway so i doubt anything on the disk is much use. Really i need to find a 64-bit driver which will work on Win7.

hackerballs
04-15-2010, 09:35 PM
I have Creative 64 bit drivers for windows 7 x 64 ....but I think you have old 16 bit card so will not work......but might be able to load it under your XP Mode download for Windows 7 Pro...might....