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Using the Creative Sound Blaster E1 (USB Sound card) on a Windows server 2012 r2 server. Sound Blaster E1 Portable Headphone Amplifier The Sound Blaster E1 is both a portable headphone amplifier and a USB sound card contained in one small handy device. If you are thinking of getting the sound blaster E1 or you already have a sound blaster E1 and are thinking of getting another USB sound card for server, read on…… I have done a post on this same Sound Blaster E1 USB sound card running on Windows Server 2008 R2 in the past (you can check it out here: http://bartman88.blogspot.com/2014/09/sound-blaster-e1-sb1600-usb-hd-audio.html ) In this post, I am going to see if it will work on the Windows Server 2012 R2 OS. Here we go: Remember to switch ON the E1 for it to work as a USB sound card. Upon inserting the USB cable into the E1, the OS will detect the device and it will start installing the generic drivers for it. It you are quick enough, you shoul...

Creative Sound Blaster Play USB sound card does not officially support running on Windows Server 2012 R2 or any other windows server OS. Will this work? Let’s give it a try and find out if it will run. In this test, a server box installed with Windows Server 2012 R2 is used. It’s a HP Proliant DL380Gen8. Once the SB Play is inserted into the USB port, the default stock driver will automatically be installed. From the device manager, we can see that the device is detected and the generic driver is installed. Here is the detail of the installed generic USB audio driver. Next, downloaded the driver/software file from the Creative support page. The file downloaded is a windows 8 driver/software file. The filename is “SBPY_PCDRV_LB_1_02_0003a.exe”. You can download it here . During the installation process, you will be prompted with this message, just click on “Install”. Installation is complete. Reboot the server so that the newly insta...

After upgrading the Windows 7 Pro 32 bit on the Pro x2 to Windows 10, I noticed that the upgraded Windows 10 did not get upgraded to the 64 Bit version. Since the Pro x2 is a 64 bit, I decided to perform a clean install of Windows 10  so that I can have it changed to the 64 bit version. I downloaded the Microsoft Windows 10 media creation tool (you can get it here ) , ran the tool, make sure I select "Windows 10" 64 bit and created the USB bootable installation media (details on how to go about doing this can be found here ). Next step, plug in the USB key into the Pro x2 and make sure to select to boot to USB flash drive at the BIOS screen. The installation process was going on smoothly until I got to the section for selecting the installation hard disk partition.  Any suitable sized partition that I have selected to install Windows on was met with a "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup ...

The Creative Sound Blaster Digital Music Premium HD USB Audiophile sound card might be the one for you. Managed to loan(from my colleague) a Creative Sound Blaster Digital Music Premium HD USB sound card to test whether it will work on Windows Server 2012 R2 OS.  There are no official support for Windows Server OS for this particular USB sound card on Creative's website. That’s the reason for this test to try to see if it will work. In this test, the USB sound card will be plugged into a HP ProLiant DL380Gen8 2U server running Windows Server 2012 R2 OS. As I did not have the driver installation CD with me, I went ahead and downloaded the driver that is meant for Windows 8. The filename of the driver is “XUHD_PCDRV_L11_1_02_0021a.exe”. You can download the driver here . As usual with all the Creative USB Sound card that I have tested so far, the moment I plug it into the USB port, the OS will start installing the generic USB sound card driver for the device. If y...