Author Topic: SB Live! (Read 307 times)

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **on:** April 26, 2004, 10:22:48 PM »

No money, so no buy new sound card.

I reinstalled Windows 98 (the card worked fine, and the drivers found the card fine before), modem connection so refuse to upgrade to WinXP and don't have XP drivers for anything, with all devices in their slots. Video card (Geforce 4) and modem (ZooM 56K) had their drivers install fine. The Live!, OTOH, would not install properly. It was found as a PCI card, and I manually unpacked and installed the SB Live! regular drivers. Sound worked fine in all games, winamp, and normal windows sounds - out of the front speakers because rear speakers need Audio HQ to work - , so I need AudioHQ to install. However, whenever running the file sblw9xup.exe - I get an error that a SoundBlaster card can not be found, Installation aborted.

I tried setting the BIOS back to PNP OS = Yes, Manage Resources to Auto, and Reset the Config. Reseated the card. Re-ran the Win98 over the previous install with the card out, then placed it back in - in a new slot - and still it didn't work.

At this point I'm about to wipe the drive again - and thats a pain in the bellybutton because I have to backup everything again without any guarantee it'll work - so if anyone has had any experience with this before, I'd appreciate it.

System :
EPOX 8KTA3 Motherboard
768MB PC133 SDRAM
Nvidia GF 4 Ti4200
Maxtor 30GB ATA100 HDD
SB Live!
and etc...
-SW

Rolex · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2004, 01:44:35 AM »

I had the exact same problem. Message window says SB Live card cannot be found on the system. Drivers from Creative support download do same thing.

Reformatting and reinstalling OS will be a waste of time.

I gave up and bought an Audigy2 ... and it doesn't work for AH either. I now have a closet full of sound cards that don't work. Want them?

SOB · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2004, 01:50:26 AM »

buy new sound card

Ghosth · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2004, 08:39:20 AM »

Funny my SB PCI 512's have been absolutely flawless.

Live has problems they know it has problems. They sold the crap out of it anyway.

Frankly a good SB 16 will run AH just fine.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2004, 11:46:28 AM »

I hate you SOB.

Wierd thing is that it worked before the format and Windows reinstall, so theres gotta be something I'm missing. Guess I'll give it a shot again, this time with all of the cards out and add them one by one (except video).

I would be satisfied with just the front channel working, but I still need EAX in order for FB/AEP to sound decent... plus its always nice to hear the rear gunner in an Il2/Ju87/Me110 opening fire to warn of bandits.

Yay, another day of reinstalls.
-SW

whels · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2004, 12:16:45 PM »

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Originally posted by Rolex
I had the exact same problem. Message window says SB Live card cannot be found on the system. Drivers from Creative support download do same thing.

Reformatting and reinstalling OS will be a waste of time.

I gave up and bought an Audigy2 ... and it doesn't work for AH either. I now have a closet full of sound cards that don't work. Want them?

my Audigy2 has worked flawless from time i got it.
no vox probs like i had with my SBlive 5.1

whels

Thorns · « **Reply #6 on:** April 27, 2004, 07:56:45 PM »

Go search the VIA forum bulletin board. Lots of talk about the issue with SB Live and VIA chipsets.

Thorns

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #7 on:** April 27, 2004, 08:23:42 PM »

My Guam box still running SBLive Value with no vox/sound problems. I am using native XP drivers on an Nforce mobo.

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