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by firestop

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Help, I have upgraded my system with a new motherboad & CPU (ABIT BX133-RAID/ Plll 800). Using my current OS (Windows ME)the system would lock up on start up, Blue Screen of Death with an error message from file (EMU10K1.VXD). If I removed my sound card (Sound Blaster Live)there was no problem at start up. I used a spare hard drive and installed Windows98 and received the same problem when I reached the sound card. All hardware works fine with old MB & CPU. Thank You For Your Help! Jim S.

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by gbworld

The driver is one possibility, but, since it worked on the old motherboard, this is unlikely. This leads to a couple of other possibilities:

1. The IRQ that it is grabbing is wrong. There are two possibilities:

a) Older sound card (non-PCI) - change settings for the IRQ to one that does not interfere.

b) PCI card: move the sound card to another slot. While it does not necessarily matter where the card is, some PCI implementations try to assign based on position.

2. The new board hasonboard sound. You should know whether or not this is true. If so, it probably needs to be disabled.

A couple of other suggestions include looking for the latest BIOS flash for this motherboard, checking if there is any other system that might conflict (new faster IDE, etc.) and checking for a newer driver for the sound card. Checking support on the SoundBlaster site is worthwhile to see if they have any answer to this one. The ABIT site is also a good place to check.

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by kgosnell

ME doesn't support Dos applications well, and the Sound blaster is Dos oriented, if you have placed the card in after getting everything else running and let Windows install it with default drivers (Be sure you have removed it in the device manager),and it still won't work, go to the maker site and see if there is a fix, if not , contact MS as it is a bug and they will have to help you through it, also there is a slim possibility of a worm or virus that can do this, do a deep scan before you doanything as some can hide until a deep scan is done of every file. Don't overlook the possibility of a defective card. Luck

by geroxx

Go to the SoundBlaster site and down load the newest driver for the SB Live!. I know for a fact that there is a bug in the original shipping driver that did not like processors above 700Mhz. I got caught by this little problem when I was making a CPU for a friend. I would almost bet that your old CPU was slower than 700Mhz.

Gary

by firestop

You were right! Thank you very much! I did not realize an old driver would create this kind of problem. Thanks again!

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