Windows 7 installation with Retail Upgrade disc

[Chip Fossa]

That has always been a problem. I never could find any place in BIOS where Realtek, or Audigy was enabled or disabled.

See, I'm a dummy.

The only reason to use Realtek over Audigy, and Jack, thank you, we've gone round and round why my Audigy does not work properly.

I went and bought that $29 Audigy from Wal-Mart as you suggested. It should say VISTA COMPATIBLE. Which, yes, it did. And would have "What-U-Hear" on it.

Well it didn't have WUH. And the damn thing even included X-fi stuff.

I'm sure it's my fault, though. I must have read the directions, wrongly.

I'm just gonna do a clean install, and thank you guys very much.

We'll see what happens.

I got all kinds of BACKUP and ACRONIS.

This will be the test. At this stage, I have so much conflicting info, that I just don't care. I am not a computer person; and don't care to be one, either.

Thanks again fellas. I will definitely let you know how it turns out.

[Jack Stoner]

Realtek could be labeled "Legacy Audio", "Integrated Audio", High Definition Audio, High Definition Codec, etc in the BIOS.

My Audigy SE has the What You Hear, but I don't have the other signal enhancements (reverb, chorous, etc) that you wanted. From what we found out from Creative (SoundBlaster) you can have one or the other (but not both), depending on which driver version you install.

[Storm Rosson]

li'l diff now Jack make sure u have it connected to the net during setup, turn on your printer and peripherals, then set back and win 7 will setup your hardware some with signed drivers, some with function drivers al'a MS them disable that annoying user account control the do the activation if u haven't already, then run windows update

[Jack Stoner]

Storm, it's not me. We are trying to help Skip with his install.

[Storm Rosson]

my bad Jack as I meant to say Chip....