My new PC, Vista and sound problems

I bought a P5B motherboard, Corsair 520 wattPSU,IntelQ6600, Corsair 2GB Ram,GeForce 8600 GTincluding a copy of Windows Vista home premium. The gfx card is justfor temporary,I will hopefully upgrade to a 8800 or 9800 later this year depending on price difference.

Vista installation went fairly smooth at first but after that I got witnessed 'the blue screen of death'' for a couple of times. It seems that messing up with older programs that are not compatible with Vista will cause ''the blue screen of death''.

All went pretty well except the sound. I have Creative 5.1 speakers with a Inspire 5.1 Digital 5700 external (dunno what exactly its called but I think its a ''receiver''?). It hasEAX and DTS support.

I'm not exactly sure what type sound card I have but I think its a sound blaster audigy 5.1 (live). However... its not exactly compatible with Vista. InstallingDrivers are a pain in the ass. Creative Surround Mixer wich allows me to set the settings for my speakers... it doesn't work either. It doesn't seem compatible with vista.

I tried doing onboard sound... it sounds like trash and 5.1 doesn't seem to work. :S

Or... I can safe myself allthe troubleand justbuy aVista compatible sound card thatworks with my 5.1 speakers.

The last option only applies if its impossible to install the drivers and software needed for my speakers.

Do you have to 64-bit version or Home Premium? There's some sort of issue with that and creative sound cards.kodex1717

32bit version home premium.

The Default install of Vista is plagued by issues since beta, have you tried updating Windows? Lots of problems have been fixed in the last 8 months.TUnified

Mmh... I totally forgot about that. I will try updating it now manually asap.

When updating a pop up appeared on the screen saying it tried installing audio devices but then it failed.

''Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM) Failed''

:|

More updates soon brb.

Older Soundblaster cards only work in stereo in Vista. No surround.

Older Soundblaster cards only work in stereo in Vista. No surround.

Yura_Narsole

I just read it here http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/02/10/creative-sound-windows-vista-audio-warning/

Can I solve this problem by just buyinga specific sound card with vista compatible drivers?

Anyone here in these forums at all have 5.1 sound using Vista operating system?

I prefer to fix this problem without frustration... meaning just buy a new one if necessary.