As if their history of questionable product support and false advertising wasn't enough, Creative Labs presented customers with this in the wake of Windows Vista.
Yes, that's old news, but I was reminded of it all when I went to format my Windows 98 SE machine. The CT4830 (Sound Blaster Live!) that I had been using in the previous (ancient) installation on that machine had worked just fine. After the re-installation, however, it would detect as a "PCI Early VGA Device"... Sweet. I tried a number of different fixes without any luck, so I installed the SB0220 (Sound Blaster Live! 5.1) I had lying around... Didn't detect at all. Now, it's worth noting that those two cards are special because they're OEM products that Creative Labs refused to support for many years, even though they're based on hardware identical to their corresponding retail products... Creative has since released drivers for these products, but I couldn't get them to recognize either card in my old Pentium II system. So I popped in my ISA Sound Blaster 16 (from my old Digital 486 DX2 machine), and it worked like a charm :)
In my frustration, I've removed the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS from my main system, opting to use my FireWire Solo exclusively as that system's sound card.
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