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Thread: WinXP and SBLive!

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    WinXP Experience (Problem: SBLive!)

    Howdy,

    I'm enjoying XP, stability is awesome (XP Pro build 2600 - final), and the general speed of the OS itself is amazing. About time MS did something half-right in the spots that count. My only problem is that I'm using a SBLive! Value. SBLive! drivers that "ship" with the OS do not work. MS knows they don't work. Creative knows they don't work. Creative won't have new ones done until "middle to late October" which means in my mind that'll be mid-November before I have sound if it's left to Creative. I want to know if anyone knows of a possible workaround short of buying a new soundcard. I've tried setting acceleration so low it's emulated. I've tried adjusting hardware settings. I've tried using different (Creative) PCI-based boards' drivers. Nothing works so far. I'm thinking of rolling-back to Win98SE until the new drivers are released. That might be what I have to do, but I'd hate to do it.

    Any help would be most appreciated,
    CrashMan79
    Last edited by CrashMan79; 10-11-2001 at 09:11 AM.

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    I think ur outta luck buddy. I have the exact same problem...kind of. I havent actually upgraded to XP yet, I'm currently running win98. However, I think I will wait. I have checked creatives website and asked around at other forums.....no luck yet. I'll be sure to post if I do.

    You know what pisses me off most? ITS SB LIVE VALUE!!!!!!! The MOST USED sound card in the industry right now. How the f*ck they not gonna support sound on the most used card? Stupid Creative! If you get a new card anytime soon, I suggest turtlebeach. I heard very good things about them about a week after I bought my stupid SBLive Value.

    I feel your pain

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    I have had no problems and am enjoying the stability very much. Install went clean for me (upgrade from 98SE), all drivers have been great. Had to roll back my display drivers a few times, but no crashes / BSOD to speak of. On thing I am enjoying is my 2 weeks of uptime (still going too). I could never have accomplished this in 98. Heck, I was lucky if I didn't reboot 3 times a day.

    PIII 700
    256 Mb Crucial RAM
    Voodoo5 5500
    SBLive! Value
    WinTV Go!

    Default drivers worked great for voodoo5 for me and D3D is performing as well as OpenGL did before.

    Jkrohn

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    You have a SBLive! and no problems with WinXP?
    Are you sure it's a SBLive! *Value*?
    Everything's running fine for me except that. I get no errors with the hardware, I just get no sound. I kept a bootable Win98SE on a spare harddrive with the current drivers (I like to be prepared for hardware/OS problems) and sound worked fine for me there.
    Originally I upgraded my main drive from Win98SE to XP, but I just did a fresh install on a seperate drive and still get no sound.
    Ah well...
    I'm sure the new drivers (due out this month) from Creative will either solve the problem or at least give me a place to start.
    I kind of wish XP *wasn't* so stable and reliable. I could try to fool it into using the wrong (but compatible) drivers... I've done it on 98, but XP doesn't even give you other manufacturers in the new hardware wizard. It sticks with the labeled manufacturer in the PnP id.

    Bah, humbug

    CrashMan79

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    I've had no problems with XP and the soundblaster live card.
    If you are having problems you could try the Winodws 2000 versions. Thay should work as Windws XP uses the drivers model as Windows 2000.
    It's worth a try anyway.

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    I installed XP 2600 build about a month ago, and my Sound Blaster Live Value works great with the built-in drivers.

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    My XP and SBLive! card work great. I just have w problem when I play the Sims. Other than that, it's perfect.

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    Ok then, all you that say yours works with XP...
    1) Is it a Value card or a different model?
    2) How old is your card (Creative slightly changed the physical card after the initial cards were sold, maybe that's it)?
    3) Why would my system, which has run fine with all previous versions of Windows, not work with a *clean* install of XP? It didn't work with the upgrade, and now not with the clean fresh install.

    4) Here are my system specs for all the hardware specialists out there:

    Gigabyte 7IXE Mobo - latest bios (F7)
    - AMD Irongate Chipset (750 and 751 bridges)
    - SoundBlaster Live! Value edition - nonfunctional currently
    - 3 IDE Harddrives, all Maxtors, 30GB, 4GB, and 20GB all UDMA/66
    - Seperate IDE I/O card for CD-Roms, Hitachi DVD, Mitsumi CDRW, Creative CD-ROM
    - Hercules 3D Prophet II MX 64MB AGP (using Hercules Detonator XP drivers, not Nvidia reference)
    - Realtek PNP ISA Network card
    - Zoom 56K LT Voice/Fax modem v.90 ISA
    - WinTV Radio TV Tuner/Radio Tuner Card

    All working fine and stable except the SBLive!... even the TV card works fine (with the exception of sound of course) which has given me problems before XP

    On a side note, I notice (using SiSoft Sandra) that my memory modules are all different specs and brands. I'm having a new single stick of 256MB SDRAM shipped to me to see if that helps. (I've had memory I/O errors in the past)

    Thanks again,
    CrashMan79

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    im running the sb live value with xp and had no problems. the enviremental suround even started working in diable 2. thats some weird sounding stuff

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    Is it possible that maybe you have pc 133 and pc 100 RAM mixed together? That would make any system react funny.

    Just a thought.

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    It's entirely possible. I tried using a different mobo today, it wigged out so bad that WinXP thought that files were missing.
    Swap the old mobo back in and it runs fine, with the exception of sound of course.

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    My soundblaster Live X-Gamer works fine but it is the X-Gamer. So im wondering is there really that HUGE of a differnce between the X-Gamer,Mp3,Value, and the one with the live drive other than the software pack? I have no probs and My buddys (you, Jason and Tommy) have no probs with there SB's acctually all they do is gush at houw much they love XP and I did to as soon as I installed it

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    ah well, I'll wait on the new drivers, it's probably a quirk with the Irongate chipset...
    It's a "funny" chipset anyway... Had 98 problems and errors that required special drivers from AMD.
    Bah. XP is just the best thing since sliced bread. I have no problem with XP.
    My problem is with Creative right now and AMD.

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    I have had no problems with windows XP and the SB gamer.

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    Just installed a crappy ISA soundcard (aztech something or other) from an old computer that's been sitting in my apartment. Sound works just fine and dandy now. I left the SBLive! Value plugged into the mobo, but disabled it in the device manager, I'm going to keep using this crappy ISA until Creative releases new drivers, then I'll try the whole thing over again.

    CrashMan79

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