Reinstalling M17x Audio Drivers?

Hey Guys-

I was just about to do a review of creative's X-Fi surround 5.1 external sound card ( Got one from best buy), but when I was downloading and installing the driver for it, I got kicked off the internet and screwed up my drivers, for both the laptop & the external card? Nothing will play, not even a test tone...It says cannot find windows host process, svhost.exe or something...

Question: How should I go about uninstalling both the M17x's "own" sound drivers and whatever else that you guys recommend as well (and what should go with it) and the creatives as well... Should I disable the IDT driver, "before" I install the new external drivers... or does this even matter...

I already downloaded Drive sweeper... Dangit... this all happened when I was updating to, and this external sound card shows promise... better audio sound quality..

Thanks... Ive tried to look elsewhere, and the alienware manual, but no luck...

 

Well in my experiences of using an external sound card, I would definitely disable the built in one when not using it. You can install the drivers for it. (check control panel) you can remove the M17x audio software there and double check in device manager and unintall there if you want to completely remove.. Then install the m17x sofware back. Once that is done, disable the built in sound card. Install the external one you have and use that.. If you have to go on the road and the external is not plugged in, you can always enable the M17x one...

I have not had good experiences running two sound cards at the same time due to IRQ conflicts and other abnormalities..

 

i us creative's X-Fi surround 5.1 UBS 2.0 to i instal drivers and then i disable the built in sound card and my SB X-Fi card works super

 

When I click uninstall the creative driver in dievice manager, it wants me to confirm If i want to do this... however, there is a chech box (if I click to check this) to delete the driver software for this device...

Do I check box this as well???

 

Yeah - check the box and it will delete the data from Vista's driver store. Hopefully its not all mucked up and error out on you.

You should also disable Vista's automatic driver install which is enabled by default.

By disabling this function, Vista will no longer automatically install a driver for a newly installed device it detects. Instead, it will prompt you to take action. A dialog box will appear asking you if you want Vista to search online for a driver, search its driver store or insert a disk. This is much better and essential to properly installing a device driver.

To disable:

1. Open the 'System' control panel
2. On the left side of the System control panel window, select 'Advanced System Settings'
3. Click on the 'Hardware Tab'
4. Click the 'Windows Update Driver Settings' button
5. Choose the middle option, 'Ask me each time I connect a new device before checking for drivers'. Select OK and close the System Properties window and then close the System control panel.

That's it.

 

thank man much appreciated +1 rep

yeah, i kept uninstalling driver, having to reboot in order to get uninstall completed, but then when i wanted to intall the "latest" driver it would quickly load/install the older version... this was getting me mad

So thanks

 

I seem to be still having the problem... whenever I plug my saitek gamepad P2900 into the USB port, windows suddendly installed something...

In system, in advanced settings, and in the driver settings, I checked the circle to "ask before installing drivers"...

Is this the "actual" driver for this gamepad, to where windows intalls in like 3 seconds...Or the is driver from the "saitek" site a seperate driver not accosiated to the one windows installs?

Im confused

 

Might be easier to do a System Restore to before you started changing drivers..unless of course you have installed or changed a bunch of things since then.

 

Your Saitek driver is for the gamepad itself providing support for its specific functionality. In the case of which driver to use, I suggest going with the OEM of the device (Saitek).

You need to identify what the 'something' is that Windows is installing when you plug in your gamepad. Is it an update to a windows component (i.e. a runtime component) or is it an actual driver?

After you plug it in and windows installs whatever it is are you seeing a performance issue? If not, dont stress.

 

batboy

thanks for replying... It happened the first and only time I plugged in the USB hub adaptor for the controller... Windows installed something in like 3 seconds... It was called something of the sort of, "human interface device"

And in device manager, it says controller something... And when I unplugg the gamepads USB hub, it disappears from the human interface device (in device manager)... Is this the "actual" real driver, or can I just install the driver from saitek (for vista 64) over this one? Or should I uninstall this from the "human interface device" when its plugged in (since it only appears then), and then install the driver I got from Saitek?

EDIT:sorry for the long explanation, just want to make sure I convey this properly?

 

Nawww - thats normal. Don't even think twice about it. I should've realized that was it when I read that post. Keep the Saitek driver installed, dont worry about the Human Interface Device Its normal. You can read all about it here.

 

thanks batboy for being helpful...

Just to clarify, I installed the driver (that I got from Sairek.com) without uninstalling the one that windows had installed (when I first plugged USB hub in)... Now there is two P2900 wireless pad things in here...

One named P2900 wireless pad (HID) and the other named P2900 wireless pad (USB), right?

Thanks again batboy...I would give you rep, but its says to spread the love around.

 

Monkey, have you tested out the external sound card yet? I just bought one and it's pretty sweet. I'd like to hear your opinion on it though.

 

Hey Airplaneman -

Yeah, I finally figured it out... its all got screwy on me if you istall drivers off the cd then update it via autoupdate... Its better to just get a dvd-r disk and download the latest drivers from creative.com on there...then install this way... Things went perfect this way...

Other than that...The music just sounds so much sweeter on this Creative X-Fi surround 5.1 USB sound card... I havent seem to much computer lag either, however, on powerdvd8, it can get a little laggy playing multiple DTS audio...(remedy for this is to just choose 1 DTS file at a time and play, instead of making a playlist)...

It amps the music up, to where the voices in the music are upped/amped up (can hear them better)... When on the internet and playing music, you can get the occational pops/clicks, but that normal with any USB sound card, im assuming... That is unitl creative makes use of USB 3.0... Unfortnatlly for me, im not going to have this option for a while, due to I spent all my funds on this beast

EDIT:CPU USAGE STAYS AT, AROUND, 30% USING CREATIVE MEDIA PLAYER... Powerdvd8 playing a "playlist", and only a "playlist" of DTS files, it maxes out at 80% and one time it froze on me as well, but powerdvd is a powerhog on its own...so...