I'd be a bit careful about allowing Windows to search for and install a driver...I had a horrendous time over Christmas when doing precisely that - the sound card driver Windows found on the internet did not download properly and crashed my PC in such a manner that it would boot, then reboot, then reboot etc etc.
Not being entirely sure what had caused it, once I managed to get my PC working, I did the same thing again!
A quick trip to the sound card manufacturer's website allowed me to download the latest driver which installed perfectly.
That's what I'll be doing in future, but don't let me put you off......
EDIT - having gone back and read earlier posts more thoroughly, the problem in this post was with a Creative sound card, O/S is XP.
Last edited by Blues&twos; 1st March 2009 at 11:25.