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by lyncheagle55

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I am having trouble with a system using a VIA chipset including a 686b southbridge and a Creative Sound Blaster Live card. I installed the software, but i cannot play game fromthe cd rom. i have sound from the speakers, but the multimedia tab when i click on properties the section that says "cd Music" I try and click on the tab where it say that i can use digital sound for the cd rom to play music and gmaes , but it is greyed out and I cannot click on it. I have sound coming from my speakers, but when i put in a cd to play games I get no sound. I have the soundblaster live . it does not have the four prongs for the analog cd ,only the spdif for the digital. what can I do to resolve this problem?. Also on my creative labs cd, the creative audio HQ and the creative surround mixer will constantly give me errors. the mixer give me this error: " CtDevcon.dll has returned an error. mixer will now exit" the audio HQ give me the error:"no audio device that is compatible with this application can be found. Reinstall the card and run the application again' I am really tired of this . I want to hear sound fromthe cds' can anyone help me!?

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by thechas

Does your motherboard have on-board sound?
If so, is it disabled in BIOS settings?
Have you installed the VIA 4 in 1 driver?

The chip-set drivers often help correct communication issues between devices.

When Windows uses digital signals for audio, it uses the IDE cable on the CD drive, and the data buss on the motherboard to transfer the data to the sound card.

If you are running Windows XP, have you installed the patches for Creative Sound cards?

Some CD drives disable the digital data stream for audio when the 4 pin audio cable is plugged in.

Chas

by lyncheagle55

i have disabled the onbard sound in the bios and removed the drivers from the Device manager I also updated the 4 in 1 driver and reinstalled the creative labs audio HQ and sound mixer .(both of which still wont activate) I am running windows 98 se. I don't have a 4 pin connection for the sound card . That is why I am using the 2 pin digital connection. bothe my cdrom drive and my cdrw are fairly new. i get sound out of the speakers , but no sound thru the cd rom. it's very confusing. Should I uninstall the card again and trade PCI slots with the modem ? I only have three PCI slots on this board. I have no AGP slot , so I have installed a PCI 64 mb nvidia mmx440 graphics card. Or should I uninstall all the drivers and try to reinstall them all.? Hey>>>>..IM missing my game time messing with this sound card problem . I need a solution!

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