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    Creative Labs Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy ADVANCED HD Audio

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by KC0r8y, Jul 2, 2008.

  1. KC0r8y

    KC0r8y Notebook Consultant

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    I have the disk that came with my M1730 for Vista. Anyone know where I can get the one for XP? I've tried just about everything off of the Dell site.


    Thanks.
     
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    Here's the link to Creative's site.
    http://files.creative.com/ManualDn/Applications/AudigyADVANCEDMB/MBSetup.exe

    I'm in the process of trying to install it on my XPS M1530 that I installed Windows XP on instead of Vista. Not sure if I need to uninstall the Sigma Tel driver first or what the deal is. When I installed the Audigy Advanced MB my Sigma Tel sound quit working. Got a yellow error message under device manager. Was able to get it working again by reinstalling the driver for it but wound up doing a system restore because it created a 2nd Sigma Tel icon in Control Panel.
     
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    On my XPS m1330, audio driver works fine on Windows XP. But when I attempt to install the Sound Blaster software, it says that audio driver not found. It worked fine on Vista. Can someone help ?
     
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    I paid Creative $19.99 for a license to install it on my laptop now that I'm running XP and it doesn't work. I get an error message saying:
    "Setup is unable to detect a supported product on your system. Pleas ensure that your product is properly installed before running set up program. Set up will exit".

    I ignored it the first time and it installed some software but my sound quit working and I had the yellow exclamation point on Sigma Tel audio under device manager. Like I said, did a system restore to fix it.
    Waiting to hear back from Creative, told them I want my money back or they need to explain what the process is for installing this software. Not too happy with it thus far. Seemed to work fine in Vista.
     
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    Not to derail the thread but what exactly is this option anyway? Is it basically just a better device driver for the onboard audio hardware? Or is it some CPU-bound post-processing filters on top of the Sigmatel driver? Or a combination of both?
     
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    It supposedly gives you more sound options (simulated surround sound etc.) I couldn't tell for sure as I didn't really try it out on my laptop when I had it loaded and running Vista. Haven't been able to run it in XP yet.
     
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    I have the same exact issue with my M1530.
    Put XP Pro on it instead of the Vista Ultimate.
    Have you had any success?
     
    dcb, Sep 14, 2008
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    When I had my old M1710 (built-in subwoofer) with the Soundblaster Audigy software installed I could note a difference.... On the M1730 I can't even detect a change - so I just uninstalled it. Worthless in my opinion.

    Only thing I miss about my M1710 - the built-in sub. *sigh*
     
    BatBoy, Sep 14, 2008
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