Author Topic: MRRIPLEY question for you :) (Read 340 times)

DRILL · « **on:** May 04, 2002, 08:42:38 AM »

i seen you post this >>>>>>>...........V

Also check if your Soundblaster is sharing an irq with another pci device, it's notorious for porking your system if you run a VIA based motherboard.

SB Live floods the pci bus so bad that it makes your computer unstable.

i have a computer that seems to have this problum

i see a error message at start up and it says it wont load the drivers .

and i have no idea how to fix it ...... any way to point me in the right direction will help

mrsid2 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 04, 2002, 08:49:19 AM »

The problem you have is probably not related to the pci flooding but you have a problem with the drivers instead.

What you need is to completely uninstall all soundcard related stuff from your computer and then reinstall the drivers for SB.

You didn't mention which operating system you had or which motherboard youre using.. WindowsXP and 2000 should have SB live! support built in, but I couldn't get SB live! to work with w2k + MSI KT266A board. Therefore I use the built in AC97 audio which works well enough for game use. The live! found a new home at my friends ancient W98 box.

DRILL · « **Reply #2 on:** May 04, 2002, 10:05:21 AM »

ok this is what i got

1.4 amd athlon K7 series Mother board

512 ram

GF 3 VID CARD

SB LIVE 5.1 SOUND CARD

WIN 98 SE

mrsid2 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 04, 2002, 10:10:36 AM »

In that case I can only direct you towards reinstalling the drivers completely. It's possible that your OS is porked somehow and needs a repair install before your drivers will start to work.

Try the drivers first, then tell how it went.

blackfalcon4 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 05, 2002, 07:19:47 AM »

YO Drill,

It sounds like you've got the sb dos drivers loaded, or trying to load.

SB emulation needs to be using irq5. But it seems that another device is using it. At least that's what I take from what you posted.

You can check the IRQ's in system>device manager>properties
If sb emu is not on Irq5 then what u need to do is move the card to another slot. That usually changes IRQ. When I build a sys I skip pci slot 1 put sb in slot 2, skip slot 3 another device in slot 4, etc..
Also when You install the sb drivers use custom and uncheck dos drivers, and demo stuff.

GL

T0J0 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 23, 2002, 10:01:51 AM »

I have seen this issue happen with flaky mem chips and a SB live.
we thought was at first was OS after troubleshooting for many hours, after reinstalling the operating system we still had the problem.. next we replaced the mem with newer mem same speed just extra that we had laying around.. Problem solved..
T0J0