You can also use the Emu 0404 USB, by connecting an optical cable to the HDTV-cable of the 360, an extremely easy solution, that in turn gives you great sound quality.

Just to be clear; I used the newly released Emu drivers for Vista: E-MU: Downloads

Nope, wasn't an option, had heard good things about Vista from my brother, so I opted for Vista instead. I made this thread to show people that Vista + 0404 does work, and so far I haven't experienced any problems.

A little over one week ago I received my brand new 0404, naturally this was exciting, but things went downhill fast (used Windows XP). I heard crackles and pops when I played music, so naturally I headed over to this forum for som advice. There were lots of suggestions on how to fix this...

I did that, but there are no errors being reported. I'm going through the troubleshooter now. But do you think formating the pc would correct things? I think I'm going to buy Vista soon.

Yeah, some 1710's came with the other soundcard, I chose the cheapest one :S I can't rollback the driver since it has not been backed up, but maybe if I uninstall it and then reinstall, then it will work?

Hmm, just installed the driver again, but it still doesnt work. Maybe I should restart?

I did what you said and this is what it said : DirectSound test results: Failure at step 3 (DirectSoundCreate): HRESULT = 0x88780078 (No driver)

I'm using System Restore to check what I've been installing: I've installed a couple of drivers, a wifi driver, new bios and a driver for the Sigmatel soundcard.

Windows Audio is running, maybe I should restart it?

Yes the 0404 is disconnected. In the control panel it still says no devices....

Nope, not using ASIO, its set to DS : Sigmatel Audio.

I enabled the onboard soundcard but Im not getting any sound from the speakers when using WMP (same with winamp or youtube), but when I use Foobar i get sound....

The services are started, and I have disabled my onboard soundcard, should I enable it?

It says that there is no audio device, everything is dimmed, cant change anything. Also my EMU control panel is lit.

Sorry but I live in Scotland, too expensive to call.

Went to options-devices-speakers then I clicked on properties and the advanced. Then I clicked on Emu 0404 midi device properties where you can choose if you want to enable the device or not.

I went into the setting in WMP, and it said that the 0404's driver was enabled but that it had not been started, how do I start the driver?

Thanks, I'll try doing that, but if it doesn't work I'll have to purchase Vista.

Does SR=sample rate? What should I set it to? What about the directsound problem? Thanks

And now I can only listen to music using Beatport Sync, I don't get sound when I'm watching youtube video's, listening to music and video's on winamp and windows media player. When I try to use winamp, I get this message: Bad DirectSound driver . This really is annoying, what can I do? Thanks

Thanks for the info guys, but I tried disabling stuff in device manager and it didn't work. Tried updating the BIOS, but now I get loud beeps when an error occurs (from the BIOS I think), how do I disable it?

I'm using XP, and I play my music through Winamp and Windows Media Player. I downloaded that program and it said that there were some device drivers that are behaving bad. How do I figure out which one's?

I'm experiencing pops and crackling when I'm just listening to music, doing nothing else. My setup is currently: Dell XPS M1710->0404-> HD595's . I've plugged the phones in the headphone jack, and haven't touched the settings on the 0404 unit. It could be a problem with one of the usb ports...

Ah kk, don't think that will be a problem for me because I have a dell xps m1710 with dual 2GHz and 2gig of ram.