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SoundBlaster Live on Win2K

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by captaintim

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When I upgraded from Win98 to Win2kPro, the sound system worked fine. I was testing a CDRom Drive (defective) and somehow this corrupted the registry (I think) and the only way I could recover was to delete the profile. Before deleting the profile, I couldn't even get windows started except in Safe Mode. I have since gotten everything working on a new profile excepting the sound card. Device Mgr says that it is working fine, but checking in Multimedia in Control Panel, there is no sound device. I have no sound at all. I have removed all of the sound card devices and game port etc., rebooted and reinstalled the drivers using the latest from Creative's Web Site with no luck. It seems that the problem is outside of the profile that wasdeleted.

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by william jay

The symptoms described lead to a harware resource conflict or un improperly installed card. Make sure the card is properly seated in it's slot. Check the BIOS output at startup to see that it gets an IRQ by itself. If BIOS settings do need to be adjusted, set Plug and Play Aware OS to NO, and you can set the IRQs manually to where you want them, just in case. After those things are done, and if you still have problems in Win2K, then we can get into some of those details too ...

by captaintim

The sound card was working fine before I deleted the profile. I have not opened the box. I have sufficient IRQ's available for all devices. Thanks for the suggestion.

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