sound blaster live 5.12 interrupt

[digger0]

I want to change my soundblaster live interrupt.The
current IRQ is 18 and the I/O range is A800-A81F. You
cannot select this high of an IRQ on older games. This
causes the sound to come out garbled. If I open the
device manager and select the sound card properties, I do
not have access to change the IRQ. This device is a plug-
and-play device. How do I change the IRQ? If the IRQ is
changed to a lower one,will this cause any problems with
other devices?

[Frank]

Try changing it in your bios.
"digger0" > wrote in message
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> I want to change my soundblaster live interrupt.The
> current IRQ is 18 and the I/O range is A800-A81F. You
> cannot select this high of an IRQ on older games. This
> causes the sound to come out garbled. If I open the
> device manager and select the sound card properties, I do
> not have access to change the IRQ. This device is a plug-
> and-play device. How do I change the IRQ? If the IRQ is
> changed to a lower one,will this cause any problems with
> other devices?

[Yves Leclerc]

Most Windows (9x, ME, 2000/XP) games rely on the sound drivers in Windows.
As with old DOS games, the PCI based sound cards do not support the lower
end of the IRQs. This is one reason that Creative had developed a "SB Pro"
emulator, so that the PCI sound cards can be used in DOS. Now, that
emulator does not work in XP (or 2000 ??) so someone else developed
'VDMSound'. This "SB Pro" type emulator works some what fine in some games
and not at all with others.

Yves


"digger0" > wrote in message
...
> I want to change my soundblaster live interrupt.The
> current IRQ is 18 and the I/O range is A800-A81F. You
> cannot select this high of an IRQ on older games. This
> causes the sound to come out garbled. If I open the
> device manager and select the sound card properties, I do
> not have access to change the IRQ. This device is a plug-
> and-play device. How do I change the IRQ? If the IRQ is
> changed to a lower one,will this cause any problems with
> other devices?