Strange sound card problem
My Sound Blaster Audigy ZS 2 (that’s a mouthful) sort of gave out the other night. I resisted the urge to go and replace it and tried to figure out what was going on. The device appeared in the Hardware Manager, but it appeared as a standard “Audio Device” or whatever is says about crap it can’t talk to.
I searched my drive for the existing drivers and I found some of the files here:
C:\Program Files\Creative\SBAudigy2ZS\Program\WDM
However, the driver installation sai that a critical file was missing. Crap. So, I download the new driver install from Creative.com. I start the installation and it craps out saying that my card is not detected.
Undeterred, I notice that tha installation program has an “extraction” phase before the installer proper begins. I checkd my temp directory to see if driver files were extracted. Nope. I then pointed WinZIP at the installer and viola, a full set of drivers was contained in the installer exe.
I extracted these drivers, pointed the “new hardware wizard” at them and I’m back in business.
It will take a long time before I’m this adept with my Mac. So much to learn.