vista driver not compatible vista

I got the creative sound card driver for vista and tried to install it. I got an error message that I needed to upgrade to vista, because i had an older verson of windows. How can I get vista to let me install the sound card driver for vista? -- John Arnett

Could you possibly post here the brand and the model of your card? What is the drivers version? Where did you get the drivers? On CD? If it is from the Web, can you provide a link please?
-- Regards, Yuriy
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I got the creative sound card driver for vista and tried to install it. I got an error message that I needed to upgrade to vista, because i had an older verson of windows. How can I get vista to let me install the sound card driver for vista? -- John Arnett

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:04:01 -0700, johna1940 wrote:

I got the creative sound card driver for vista and tried to install it. I got an error message that I needed to upgrade to vista, because i had an older verson of windows. How can I get vista to let me install the sound card driver for vista?

This means that: 1) There is something wrong with your Vista installation in general, if it is not recognized as the default OS by the Creative driver. Or, it means: 2) Something is definitely wrong with the Creative driver if it won't recognize your default OS. Possibly, you got a bad download of the driver. Try redownloading it.
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Donald L McDaniel Please reply to the original thread. =====================================================

I have the same problem with GeForce 6800 card. The older driver identifies the OS as "Longhorn ()" although I run the latest 5384 Beta 2 build. The drivers must be looking at different parts of OS to identify the version. Valery
"Donald L McDaniel" wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:04:01 -0700, johna1940 <johna1940@cox.net wrote:
I got the creative sound card driver for vista and tried to install it. I got an error message that I needed to upgrade to vista, because i had an older verson of windows. How can I get vista to let me install the sound card driver for vista?
This means that: 1) There is something wrong with your Vista installation in general, if it is not recognized as the default OS by the Creative driver. Or, it means: 2) Something is definitely wrong with the Creative driver if it won't recognize your default OS. Possibly, you got a bad download of the driver. Try redownloading it.
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Donald L McDaniel Please reply to the original thread. =====================================================

I have the same problem with GeForce 6800 card. The older driver identifies the OS as "Longhorn ()" although I run the latest 5384 Beta 2 build. The drivers must be looking at different parts of OS to identify the version. Valery
"Donald L McDaniel" wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:04:01 -0700, johna1940 <johna1940@cox.net wrote:
I got the creative sound card driver for vista and tried to install it. I got an error message that I needed to upgrade to vista, because i had an older verson of windows. How can I get vista to let me install the sound card driver for vista?
This means that: 1) There is something wrong with your Vista installation in general, if it is not recognized as the default OS by the Creative driver. Or, it means: 2) Something is definitely wrong with the Creative driver if it won't recognize your default OS. Possibly, you got a bad download of the driver. Try redownloading it.
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Donald L McDaniel Please reply to the original thread. =====================================================

"Donald L McDaniel" wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:04:01 -0700, johna1940 <johna1940@cox.net wrote:
I got the creative sound card driver for vista and tried to install it. I got an error message that I needed to upgrade to vista, because i had an older verson of windows. How can I get vista to let me install the sound card driver for vista?
This means that: 1) There is something wrong with your Vista installation in general, if it is not recognized as the default OS by the Creative driver. Or, it means: 2) Something is definitely wrong with the Creative driver if it won't recognize your default OS. Possibly, you got a bad download of the driver. Try redownloading it.
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Donald L McDaniel Please reply to the original thread. =====================================================