soundblaster audigy 2 family devices 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 Rennie" wrote in message

In my particular scenario I was unable to install the Vista Beta 2 drivers due to it timing out.

I'd be very interested to know where you got Vista beta 2 drivers.
Perhaps you meant Vista beta 1?
Those would be dated 10 Nov 05

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.