Driver update resets system DURING installation

From: Stunn (stunn_at_xxxxia.com)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:54:39 -0000

Hi All,

The problem is with the updates for my soundcard (direct from Creative's
website). When I try to install, uninstall, rollback, etc, etc, (i.e.
anything to do with changing the drivers) the system resets
itself during the operation. After re-booting, the drivers remain
unchanged from their original state - an older version of the same
drivers.

I've tried booting with a diagnostics disk, deleting all the files
listed under the driver window for the soundcard, and re-booting. The
'wonderful' WinXP just reinstates everything during start-up without
asking!

Same applies in Safe Mode, and whether I am logged in as Administrator
or a standard user.

My last idea was to install WinXP on an old drive, copy the Windows
directory, install the drivers on the clean system, then make a
comparison of changed files, and apply those changes to my existing
system files - until I realised that there were about 300 changed files.

I have no intentions of reinstalling WinXP from scratch just to update
the soundcard drivers, but I really want these drivers as they solve an
issue that's been bugging me for months. Can anyone suggest a method to
get around this, that doesn't involve reinstalling the OS?

TIA
Stunn

P.S. the issue that's been bugging me - just in case anyone has a
suggestion for that - is that, after a re-boot, the sound only issues
from the front two speakers until I change speaker settings to two
speakers, then back to quad.

Soundcard: Soundblaster Live! FourPointSurround.

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