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From: Andrew Hodgson on 2 Aug 2008 08:55
Hi,

The other week I started my upgrade to Vista. I went to all the
relevant websites, and one of the things I did was to buy a Creative
Vista drivers and application CD for the X-Fi music card in my system.

When I got the disk, I found that unfortunately my Creative card
wasn't supported by the disk, because it is a Dell OEM card with a
different part number. I have now got the basic Dell drivers, but I
have two issues:

1. I cannot use any DRM stuff with these drivers, when I could with
the XP based driver CD that came with the system.

2. The applications - specificly WaveStudio, are now missing, and if
I install the ones from the previous CD I have (for XP), it won't
work.

Does anyone have a Dell Creative X-Fi music CD that they would be
willing to share with me? I phoned up Dell support, but they are
unable to send me a replacement disk.

Thanks.
Andrew.
From: RnR on 2 Aug 2008 23:00
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:55:29 +0100, Andrew Hodgson <me3(a)privacy.net>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>The other week I started my upgrade to Vista. I went to all the
>relevant websites, and one of the things I did was to buy a Creative
>Vista drivers and application CD for the X-Fi music card in my system.
>
>When I got the disk, I found that unfortunately my Creative card
>wasn't supported by the disk, because it is a Dell OEM card with a
>different part number. I have now got the basic Dell drivers, but I
>have two issues:
>
>1. I cannot use any DRM stuff with these drivers, when I could with
>the XP based driver CD that came with the system.
>
>2. The applications - specificly WaveStudio, are now missing, and if
>I install the ones from the previous CD I have (for XP), it won't
>work.
>
>Does anyone have a Dell Creative X-Fi music CD that they would be
>willing to share with me? I phoned up Dell support, but they are
>unable to send me a replacement disk.
>
>Thanks.
>Andrew.

You probably won't like my answer but I'd go back to XP. I suppose
tho you have a reason for going to Vista.
From: Joelee on 4 Aug 2008 17:31
If you go to the Dell Download & Driver site select your system and make
sure you select the Vista Opering system you'll find the driver for your
sound card and any other driver you require for Vista.


"Andrew Hodgson" <me3(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
news:g3m894ps5v83770hclrirh256g50n9rntt(a)news.giganews.com...
> Hi,
>
> The other week I started my upgrade to Vista. I went to all the
> relevant websites, and one of the things I did was to buy a Creative
> Vista drivers and application CD for the X-Fi music card in my system.
>
> When I got the disk, I found that unfortunately my Creative card
> wasn't supported by the disk, because it is a Dell OEM card with a
> different part number. I have now got the basic Dell drivers, but I
> have two issues:
>
> 1. I cannot use any DRM stuff with these drivers, when I could with
> the XP based driver CD that came with the system.
>
> 2. The applications - specificly WaveStudio, are now missing, and if
> I install the ones from the previous CD I have (for XP), it won't
> work.
>
> Does anyone have a Dell Creative X-Fi music CD that they would be
> willing to share with me? I phoned up Dell support, but they are
> unable to send me a replacement disk.
>
> Thanks.
> Andrew.

From: Andrew Hodgson on 6 Aug 2008 18:19
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:31:25 -0400, "Joelee" <joelee(a)sisterisles.kn>
wrote:

>If you go to the Dell Download & Driver site select your system and make
>sure you select the Vista Opering system you'll find the driver for your
>sound card and any other driver you require for Vista.

I am using this driver now and have the issues I wrote previously.
This is particularly annoying when dealing with Windows Media Player
and the fact I can't use DRM content, rendering a training site
inaccessible.

Andrew.
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