I have a 4 year old creative sb Audigo card. My problem is that I can't upgrade the drivers to the latest. Instead I'm stuck with drivers from 2001. Reason for this is that the driver installation program always crashes at a random point during installation. Often it renders my system impossible to reboot. I must rebbot in safe mode and can see that the old driver installation is destroyed (report by creative diagnostic). I have been in contact with creative support and tried all possible suggestions like switching cardplace turning off backgroundtask. At one point I tried with a freshly installed Windows without success,The creativesupport suggests I buy a new soundcard.Is that a good idea? I mean they are not all very expensive and don't you think it would be worth it. Getting a newfresh and therefore better soundcard just to be able to use the latest drivers.

Extract the .exe containing the new driver to a temporary folder. Go into the Device Manager, find your soundcard, expand it and click on Update Driver.When prompted, point the installer to the folder where you unzipped your new driver. It will install from there. Secon method: UNINSTALL the card using add/remove hardware. Reboot. When the `new` device is found, cancel the Windows auto-installation and then run the new driver auto installer from there.If it doesn't then your card is not the one that is suported by that driver and you will need something like P-Pax drivers or KX Project Drivers, which we have talked about several times in these forums.Allcott

By extracting the exe instead of running it directly I could find a specific driver setup. By running this I could upgrade the drivers.