K7VZA setup to not use onBoard sound

[jblack3425]

Hi,

I've been fighting this configuration ahhhhh time flies doens't it. Well I have a Sound Blaster Live PCI card that I would like to use instead of the onboard audio codec.

I have tried to disable the chip in the BIOS as well as the legacy options in the Integrated Peripherals area.

Problem I seem to have is once the software for the SBLive is installed the system will hang. Sometimes not at first you can do a little then it will hang.

Frustrating...any ideas, sugestions, web site locations that might help would be great. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

BTW running BIOS v3.2e

Thx..

[Peter M]

VIA's 686 south bridge and SB!Live don't play well together. See the various web publications on that.

regards, Peter

[jblack3425]

Peter,

Thx for the info...I found information on VIA's website. Tried the PCI patch with no luck system still hangs. Looks like I'll get another sound card.

Thx for your info I was in the state of (bang's head against monitor) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[jblack3425]

Just a follow up...

I had jp7 short'ed and jp4 set to use AMR slot codec.

I install the latest patch from VIA v 4.32 and still had no luck. The jumpers I had changed originally to see if it would help before I started to look on the web.

Well I decided to play with the jumpers again, I took the jumper off jp4 and set jp7 to use onBoard codec.

Install SB!Live and still had the system hang after a bit. Now I did see a post on the forum on viahardware.com someone had suggested disabling PCI Master Pipeline Req.

Once I changed this in the BIOS and rebooted the SB!live card has worked (fingers crossed) for now anyway.

I hope this helps if someone is having the same issues.

[surrealchereal]

VIA's 686 south bridge and SB!Live don't play well together. See the various web publications on that.
Thanks Peter, now I know exactly why I'm sorry I bought an SBLive... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif