Re: Sound Blaster Live! Sound card

Creative tends to key their installers to look for the relevent sound card
or they won't install. The card only needs to be in the slot to be detected
by the Creative driver installer. Dell drivers might be like some HP drivers
and be keyed to detect a same-brand motherboard before they will install. Or
the driver you downloaded could be for a different version of SBLive! that
Dell provides. SBLive 5.1, or 24Bit etc., drivers aren't compatible with the
basic SBLive! cards and according to the number you gave earlier, yours is
an ordinary SBLive! Value card. I'd expect the only real difference between
Dell and the Creative driver downloads to be in the additional software that
is bundled with either driver.

Try re-installing the SBLive! Value driver (from Creative's download site)
clean. Disable on-board sound too if you have it. IIRC, IRQ10 is what the
SBLive! will try to use so see what else might be using that IRQ as well.


"ngg" <ngg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AE80B631-45B2-4B2D-B0FD-7F971B879D1E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
No luck with safe mode. Windows loads drivers in safe mode, but when I
reboot
out of safe mode, it locks up again. I tried a driver from driverguide. It
did not work. The driver that I think will work will not install on the pc
because it needs to see a sound card installed in order to complete. Well,
without the correct driver, a sound card does not show as installed. It is
like going around in circles.

Time for a new card!! I have wasted enough time. Thanks for all your help.


ngg


"ngg" wrote:

Yea, I knew it was older. I don't have the info in front of me, but I
searched all over the net last night and saw a post on a forum with the
exact
problem I was having. The guy got Dell specific drvivers and that fixed
it
for him. I was able to find that exact driver that he used. I am going to
try
to boot into Safe Mode tonight and get that driver loaded. I plan on
updating
my post.

Thanks. I appreciate all the info I am receiving.

ngg


"Ghostrider" wrote:


ngg wrote:

It was not beside the VGA card. I tried it in the last 3 slots.
Thanks for
that tip.

ngg


This is a relatively old Creative Labs SoundBlaster card from the
Windows 98 era. Just what drivers are you trying to install and from
where did you get them? Note that this is an OEM (Dell) SoundBlaster
card.



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