WWF Posted September 1, 2001 Share Posted September 1, 2001 Hi, I am using creative SBLive Value. I just done an upgrade frm Win98 to WinXP. All my devices are detected in the system properties. However when i try to play mp3/audio cds, i could not hear a sound. It seems like the speaker icon has it muting on and off every second. Anyone who got their SBLive value to work? Pls help me, thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 1, 2001 Author Share Posted September 1, 2001 I downloaded for liveware for win2k from creative website. When i run the setup, it gave the following error msg: Setup could not detect any Sound Blaster Live! card on your system. Pls ensure that your Sound Blaster Live! hardware is properly installed before running the setup program. Setup will now exit My PC specs are AMD Athlon 900mhz MSI K7T Turbo(No RAID) Twinmos 256mb sdram !BM 30 GB harddisk MSI GeForce2 MX Creative Sound Blaster Live Value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted September 1, 2001 Administrators Share Posted September 1, 2001 Try windowsupdate, there are sb drivers available there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 1, 2001 Author Share Posted September 1, 2001 I have tried live update to update the drivers, but there is still no sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted September 1, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 1, 2001 weird... if possible, can you do a clean install (after you formatted) again and see if the problem still persist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 1, 2001 Author Share Posted September 1, 2001 I done a clean install and i still have the same error message as above: "Setup could not detect any Sound Blaster Live! card on your system. Pls ensure that your Sound Blaster Live! hardware is properly installed before running the setup program. Setup will now exit " Still no sound in XP..... My speaker icon at the taskbar is still blinking and off the mute sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted September 1, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 1, 2001 Maybe there's a problem with your soundcard.. what about IRQ conflict? Have you check that out? Try moving your soundcard to a different PCI slots.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 1, 2001 Author Share Posted September 1, 2001 My sound card is working fine as i could get it work/play music in Win98. Here is a screenshot of my irq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 1, 2001 Author Share Posted September 1, 2001 My SBLive Value is located at PCI Slot 5 My Nvidia Geforce 2 is using a AGP slot My realtek Network car is located at PCI Slot 6 What do u suggest i moved and to which slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Posted September 1, 2001 Share Posted September 1, 2001 You have to update your driver. The SB driver in Win98 will not work in XP. Try to downlaod a driver which support Win2000 or XP. Reinstall your Windows and install the new driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 2, 2001 Author Share Posted September 2, 2001 I mention in my previous post that i done a clean install of winXP and done a liveupdate to update my driver. I d/l the win2k driver frm creative website and when i tried to install it gave me the error msg: "Setup could not detect any Sound Blaster Live! card on your system. Pls ensure that your Sound Blaster Live! hardware is properly installed before running the setup program. Setup will now exit". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 2, 2001 Author Share Posted September 2, 2001 I change the pci slot which the sound card is in from slot 5 to slot 3. But my irq for the sound card still remain the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellgod Posted September 2, 2001 Share Posted September 2, 2001 Are your speakers like mine, Digital only and require the Drivers from Creative to make the soundcard see them :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 3, 2001 Author Share Posted September 3, 2001 Hm.. i not sure whether my speaker is digital. I am using Midiland 3050M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intelligen Posted September 3, 2001 Share Posted September 3, 2001 SBLive drivers come with XP. You should not have to download any drivers from SBLive.com. The liveware does not work yet due to that winXP isn't really released to the public so that is right that liveware will not think you have a SBLive card installed. If you need to change volume and what inputs are on and off just go to control panel and find the sounds and audio devices and change your stuff there under advance. But remember, drivers for win2k are not for XP and until a liveware is released for XP i wouldn't try downloading and installing one for a different platform Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted September 3, 2001 Share Posted September 3, 2001 But i have not windows xp . I have MS windows ME . In my SB live! value box the ideal companion is FPS (four point soround) 1000 . Perhaps these sites can help you. www.windrivers.com :) www.electic.com :) www.driverguide.com :) Good luck . :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonwolf Posted September 3, 2001 Share Posted September 3, 2001 I got a problem myself with the soundblaster live value also. Everything works just great. But when I play UT ...the voices break out. It kinda like crackles. But music and everything else dont work very well. Anyone else has that problem? 1. Yes fresh install 2. Yes did update 3. Yes reinstall UT 4. NO did not install drivers of soundblaster. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossDundas Veteran Posted September 3, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 3, 2001 this is really wierd since i have this exact same card...yet is seems to work fine in XP (i'm running the RTM), except when i'm copying stuff off a CD or summit then it starts crackling. I did a clean install and the sound card works perfect other than that. dude, do you have ACPI enabled by any chance........that shitza is the devil! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pero Posted September 3, 2001 Share Posted September 3, 2001 I did it yesterday and it work very well for me, now I have AudioHQ for my SBLive!Value, sweet. Maybe some of you will find it helpfull. I left the Microsoft drivers that came with WinXP alone and did as follow: " WindowsXP How to add in AudioHQ in to WindowsXP. 1: Download the SBLive! 5.1 Series LW Package for Win2k it should be Date: 010417 17,648,261 bytes Sound Blaster Live! 5.1SBL5-WEB-W1-US Save any were you like, run SBL51_W2k.exe it will unpack it self in same folder move thoses file in to a new folder. 2: Open notepad add the line "sbl51 /w" without quotes save as run.bat in same folder where you put the unpack the drivers & applications at. A big thank gose to Christopher Hill for the command line switch. 3: Dbl click on run.bat click next then stop rigth there useing the windows key on key board with the Windows Explorer all ready open you need to go to ?:Documents and Settings(Computer Name)Local SettingsTemp folder copy the SBL51 folder to c: then exit the installer you need clear out your temp folder and any sub folder in there then empty Recycle Bin. 4: Go to ?:SBL51AudioEnglishSetup folder then dbl click on AUDIO.INI scoll down in tell you see the line "WinDrv = 1" change it to "WinDrv = 0" close notepad and save it. 5: run ?:SBL51AudioEnglishSetupsetup.exe do a custom install "DO NOT mess with anything" just click next & install. Everything should now work other then you will not have CL Launcher on top dran but I live hehe." Here is a link where I found it: http://shs-sound.paraknowya.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 4, 2001 Author Share Posted September 4, 2001 The problem is that the sound does not work in XP, even using the drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 4, 2001 Author Share Posted September 4, 2001 Originally posted by Pero I did it yesterday and it work very well for me, now I have AudioHQ for my SBLive!Value, sweet. Maybe some of you will find it helpfull. I left the Microsoft drivers that came with WinXP alone and did as follow: " WindowsXP How to add in AudioHQ in to WindowsXP. 1: Download the SBLive! 5.1 Series LW Package for Win2k it should be Date: 010417 17,648,261 bytes Sound Blaster Live! 5.1SBL5-WEB-W1-US Save any were you like, run SBL51_W2k.exe it will unpack it self in same folder move thoses file in to a new folder. 2: Open notepad add the line "sbl51 /w" without quotes save as run.bat in same folder where you put the unpack the drivers & applications at. A big thank gose to Christopher Hill for the command line switch. 3: Dbl click on run.bat click next then stop rigth there useing the windows key on key board with the Windows Explorer all ready open you need to go to ?:Documents and Settings(Computer Name)Local SettingsTemp folder copy the SBL51 folder to c: then exit the installer you need clear out your temp folder and any sub folder in there then empty Recycle Bin. 4: Go to ?:SBL51AudioEnglishSetup folder then dbl click on AUDIO.INI scoll down in tell you see the line "WinDrv = 1" change it to "WinDrv = 0" close notepad and save it. 5: run ?:SBL51AudioEnglishSetupsetup.exe do a custom install "DO NOT mess with anything" just click next & install. Everything should now work other then you will not have CL Launcher on top dran but I live hehe." Here is a link where I found it: http://shs-sound.paraknowya.com/ I tried to use that method which i read on the site, however my winxp freezes upon restart, can't even get to the logon screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 4, 2001 Author Share Posted September 4, 2001 Originally posted by Ross D this is really wierd since i have this exact same card...yet is seems to work fine in XP (i'm running the RTM), except when i'm copying stuff off a CD or summit then it starts crackling. I did a clean install and the sound card works perfect other than that. dude, do you have ACPI enabled by any chance........that shitza is the devil! :D I do not have any sound in XP, that is even worse. I think i have ACPI enabled. What should i do next? Could be due to IRQ sharing. I can't change my irq of my sound card as the menu/option to change it seems to be grayed out. Do i set my irq for the device manually in the Bios? Please advice. Thank u. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossDundas Veteran Posted September 4, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 4, 2001 you need to change the Hardware Abstraction Layer of the OS. You can do this by changing the computer type to "Standard PC" instead of ACPI. once you do this XP will redetect all your devices and assign them all individual IRQs wherever possible :ninja: Good luck dude :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWF Posted September 5, 2001 Author Share Posted September 5, 2001 Originally posted by Ross D you need to change the Hardware Abstraction Layer of the OS. You can do this by changing the computer type to "Standard PC" instead of ACPI. once you do this XP will redetect all your devices and assign them all individual IRQs wherever possible :ninja: Good luck dude :) May i know what is the difference between Standard PC and ACPI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lezend Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 This is for Windows XP sound: Right click on the speaker icon in taskbar. Adjust Audio Properties. Under Volume Tab Device Volume, click Advanced. Under Play Control - Options - Advanced Controls (Checked). Hit the Advance Button Under Play Control. Others Control - (Check) Digital Output Only. Close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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