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[WHOAguitarninja]

Just a question about the order I should do things in. I have the new drivers downloaded. Should I

A)
----1. remove old card drivers, install new ones
----2. open case and swap cards and let autodetect take care of things

or

B)
----1. remove old drivers
----2.open up and swap cards
----3.then install new drivers


or if I'm going from Sound Blaster Live! to an Audigy 2 zs do I even need to change drivers? or do they operate of the same drivers like nvidia or ati graphics cards?

 

[borghe]

b

 

[Hooker]

Sound cards are the biggest bitches in computer hardware IMO! Even the simple updating of drivers can leave your whole system fucked! (Creative)



Go for option C)

1. Remove drivers
2. Remove old card
3. Reboot Windows, see if everything works properly, the software really has uninstalled and nothing is left behind
4. Put the new card in
5. Install the new card


And then the tenuis task of updating the software/drivers A bit of advice here, from the Creative CD, only install the basic driver set, Audio HQ & the surround mixer. The rest isn't that good to begin with. Then do the Auto-Update from Creative's site. You need to reboot your computer a lot during this progress. Once Auto-Update tells you that you have the latest versions of everything, start tweaking the settings. (like muting the mic in your own speakers and such)

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

I actually don't have the cd (switching sound cards from two computers) so I just got the latest drivers from their website. Is that okay?

 

[Hooker]

It should be, check if the drivers you got from their site are stand-alones, or updates. (happened to me once )







You may even get away with not installing any drivers from an executable and only using the auto-update

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

appears to be a driver update, and not a standalone. The only one that appears to be standalone is their beta driver. What should I do about that?

EDIT -
AHA....found another that says it doesn't require drivers to be already installed. Niceee.