Cannot Record Using Soundblaster X-FI

I recently installed a Soundblaster X-FI card and now I cannot record an audio track. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Sonar several times without success. Under options-audio, when I attempt to select a driver mode-ASIO, as suggested in the audio hardware guide, the audio options dialog window will not allow me to hit "OK", it just flashes. During the process of uninstall/reinstall, I was able to get the wave profiler to work, however no luck in recording. Also under "Record Timing Master" the Soundblaster does not show up, however for the Playback it does. What the heck do I need to do to get Sonar to recognize the card properly? The soundcard works fine outside of Sonar as well as Sonar playback. Gracias Amigos.
 
Running Sonar 6.2 under Vista (sorry)

Go to the Creative website and download and install the latest drivers for Vista, and any updates/patches that might be available for the X-Fi and your OS.
Sound Blasters are very good as sound cards for playback of mp3s or videos and DVDs, but are not really designed for recording. If it's new, I would suggest returning it and getting an audio interface designed for recording.

creative has been criticised for their lack of ASIO drivers for Vista and win7. 

also, soundblasters are not typically the best soundcards to buy for recording - they are designed more for gaming and home theater (that's my opinion regardless of their claims on their advertising).

if you've checked the creative website and downloaded the latest vista drivers and cannot get your card to work in ASIO driver mode, then just use WDM driver mode.  the only thing you have to be careful of is to make sure that in the OPTIONS>AUDIO under PLAYBACK and RECORDING devices, make sure only the X-fi is listed in both pull down menus as being the one selected, not any other device (including your onboard soundcard).

if that doesn't work let us know and we'll come up with some more things to try.

but if you are using this soundcard mostly for recording, I'd see if you can return it and get a "recording" soundcard.  check my website for recommendations.

I don't see an Edirol USB 1A-UX anywhere.  do you maybe mean the UA-1G or maybe the UA-25EX?  either of those should work, but the UA-1G is pretty limited in what it can do.  the UA-25EX is a much better soundcard, especially for a vocalist.  the UA-25EX already has an XLR connection with a mic preamp.  the UA-1G only has an "electret condensor mic input" which basically is just an input for a "computer microphone" and you really don't want your vocalist recording into a computer mic.

for the SB soundcard, you can try downloading and installing ASIO4ALL (google it or find a link on my website in the help section), then in SHS go to OPTIONS>AUDIO and change the driver mode to ASIO.  that might work.