Kyle
March 17th 08, 06:52 AM
"E" > wrote in message
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| "mr deo" > wrote in
message
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| > "E" > wrote in message
| > ...
| >
| >> Here is a list of components:
| >> ASUS P4P800SE 865PE/ICH5 motherboard.
| >> Nvidia video card
| >> 1024MB of name brand memory listed as compatible with the board
| >> Antec 500W Basiq PSU
| >>
| >> Also it has in it PCI cards from her previous Dell computer
such as...
| >> A Lucent chip set soft modem
| >> Sound Blaster 5.1
| >> three port firewire card
| >>
| >> I can lose these PCI cards from the old Dell, since she is on
DSL, the
| >> Asus board has onboard sound, and who needs firewire.
| >
| > the SoundBlaster card is your problem.. Dump it, and dump all of
the
| drivers
| > and your pc will run flawless...
| >
| > SB cards are good if your willing to invest the time and effort
into
| making
| > them work AND making the software on the pc use them correctly.
| >
| > Even a properly configured SB card can err when other programs
make
| invalid
| > calls.
| >
|
| Yes, I have read this much before about SoundBlaster cards and
there
| drivers. People seem to harp on the drivers more.
|
| I have the same card in my system, and it hasn't ever given me
trouble.
| But I never play games. Just use it for music. A while ago I hooked
my MIDI
| keyboard up to the onboard sound in my box and there was to much
latency. So
| I got an SB Live 5.1. It worked good for that.
|
| The current driver in the problem PC is the original 2001 dated
driver
| that comes with XP. I assumed it would be stable. Windows Update is
offering
| a more recent driver dated 2003. I haven't checked Creative's site
yet.
| Still not sure whether to update the driver, or just remove the card
all
| together. I'm leaning towards the later.
|
Good detective work, now here's some suggestions for the "fix". Use
only the latest drivers from the Creative web site. Depending upon
the SBLive card you have (the model) it MAY only work "well" in a
particular PCI slot. I have an old SB0100 (I think that's the model
number) and have had several "fights" with the card to make it work
correctly in 2 different mobos. On one motherboard, the card would
not be recognized properly by the Plug-n-Pray subsystem except when
installed in a particular PCI slot. In another system, the SBLive
caused system lockups (which I identified eventually by trying to run
the mixer at startup, and an instant lockup would occur each time I
ran the creative mixer), and ATM, I can't recall what I did to fix
that problem, tho I must have fixed it as it now works properly with
win2k and winxp in that box (a dual boot system). Heh, I found some
of the info on my SBLive horror story, you can read it here:
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/image-vp437057.html
In the end, the "solution" that worked for me was this: I put a newer
AMD Barton core CPU in the system and pulled out the 1.4G AMD Tbird
CPU. And, I can guarantee that the Tbird CPU was not defective
(memtest86 and prime95 stable as a rock), as it is still running in
another system. Isn't that the sh*ts.
There is a "driver cleaner" program for the SBLive drivers, run the
driver cleaner (ctzap seems to ring a bell) before installing the
latest drivers. I recommend against using the MS windows update site
for obtaining SBLive 5.1 drivers.
In the end, when it works right, the SBLive 5.1 cards are darn good
sound quality cards, imho, and I fought the battle to get mine working
in it's current system because it's my "digital recording" machine
which I use for recording/digitizing old vinyl records and for
recording satellite TV receiver audio/video programming which I make
into DVDs for my kid.
Of course, there is one other possibility, such as some sort of
oddball driver conflict between the SBLive driver and some other
system driver. However, I'd give the "install the latest drivers"
approach a go before giving up.
--
Best regards,
Kyle
...
|
| "mr deo" > wrote in
message
| ...
| >
| > "E" > wrote in message
| > ...
| >
| >> Here is a list of components:
| >> ASUS P4P800SE 865PE/ICH5 motherboard.
| >> Nvidia video card
| >> 1024MB of name brand memory listed as compatible with the board
| >> Antec 500W Basiq PSU
| >>
| >> Also it has in it PCI cards from her previous Dell computer
such as...
| >> A Lucent chip set soft modem
| >> Sound Blaster 5.1
| >> three port firewire card
| >>
| >> I can lose these PCI cards from the old Dell, since she is on
DSL, the
| >> Asus board has onboard sound, and who needs firewire.
| >
| > the SoundBlaster card is your problem.. Dump it, and dump all of
the
| drivers
| > and your pc will run flawless...
| >
| > SB cards are good if your willing to invest the time and effort
into
| making
| > them work AND making the software on the pc use them correctly.
| >
| > Even a properly configured SB card can err when other programs
make
| invalid
| > calls.
| >
|
| Yes, I have read this much before about SoundBlaster cards and
there
| drivers. People seem to harp on the drivers more.
|
| I have the same card in my system, and it hasn't ever given me
trouble.
| But I never play games. Just use it for music. A while ago I hooked
my MIDI
| keyboard up to the onboard sound in my box and there was to much
latency. So
| I got an SB Live 5.1. It worked good for that.
|
| The current driver in the problem PC is the original 2001 dated
driver
| that comes with XP. I assumed it would be stable. Windows Update is
offering
| a more recent driver dated 2003. I haven't checked Creative's site
yet.
| Still not sure whether to update the driver, or just remove the card
all
| together. I'm leaning towards the later.
|
Good detective work, now here's some suggestions for the "fix". Use
only the latest drivers from the Creative web site. Depending upon
the SBLive card you have (the model) it MAY only work "well" in a
particular PCI slot. I have an old SB0100 (I think that's the model
number) and have had several "fights" with the card to make it work
correctly in 2 different mobos. On one motherboard, the card would
not be recognized properly by the Plug-n-Pray subsystem except when
installed in a particular PCI slot. In another system, the SBLive
caused system lockups (which I identified eventually by trying to run
the mixer at startup, and an instant lockup would occur each time I
ran the creative mixer), and ATM, I can't recall what I did to fix
that problem, tho I must have fixed it as it now works properly with
win2k and winxp in that box (a dual boot system). Heh, I found some
of the info on my SBLive horror story, you can read it here:
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/image-vp437057.html
In the end, the "solution" that worked for me was this: I put a newer
AMD Barton core CPU in the system and pulled out the 1.4G AMD Tbird
CPU. And, I can guarantee that the Tbird CPU was not defective
(memtest86 and prime95 stable as a rock), as it is still running in
another system. Isn't that the sh*ts.
There is a "driver cleaner" program for the SBLive drivers, run the
driver cleaner (ctzap seems to ring a bell) before installing the
latest drivers. I recommend against using the MS windows update site
for obtaining SBLive 5.1 drivers.
In the end, when it works right, the SBLive 5.1 cards are darn good
sound quality cards, imho, and I fought the battle to get mine working
in it's current system because it's my "digital recording" machine
which I use for recording/digitizing old vinyl records and for
recording satellite TV receiver audio/video programming which I make
into DVDs for my kid.
Of course, there is one other possibility, such as some sort of
oddball driver conflict between the SBLive driver and some other
system driver. However, I'd give the "install the latest drivers"
approach a go before giving up.
--
Best regards,
Kyle