The Creative xfi crashing?

[Thor.]

Hi all you techies out there, i have a majore problem with my Creative Xfi, ive tried everything from uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling the drivers, still no sound. Im running windows xp 64bit pro and when ever i plug it in after 2 minutes windows crashes, then restarts.

Any clue on whats happening, it also gives hardware error mesages to, fresh install.

heres the link to my model.

Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 70SB109000000 - Better Music and Movie Sound, Made Easy

O ya when it crashs it doesn't give any report on what caused the crash. It simply gives fast blue screen of death and restart.

 

[P4R4S1T3]

Return and Receive... a new one...

Best thing I can think of is a manufacturer defect.

 

[KSoD]

Did you remove the drivers with Driver Cleaner Pro? It could be that the old drivers are still installed and that is why the new drivers are not taking priority and you still get noe sound.

Driver Cleaner Professional download from Guru3D.com

 

[Thor.]

yes i always remove the drivers before uninstall. Its sad its a great soundcard, when it worked, my mp3's never sounded better. Nothing beats 24bit encoding and openal.

 

[ricanflow]

Did you change anything in your computer lately???

 

[Wildside]

sound card crashes my PC sometimes, disables sometimes on its own and have to restart to fix it, reinstalling drivers wont do anything.

Creative Labs need to fix their drivers badly.

 

[ricanflow]

Windows Xp drivers are rock solid and very stable, no crashes no static nothing.

Vista just sucks in the sound area, it doesn't have directsound anymore which is part of the problem. Haven't heard of any problems with XP64 driver either.