rec.autos.simulators

> I recently purchased a Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer soundcard, and installed
> it.  In the process, I had to disable my computer's existing Crystal
> soundcard, and now I have hard crashes, where I have to turn off the power
> bar, every once in a while.   Basically, while looking around for drivers,
> all I could find were generic drivers for all Soundblaster Live! cards, and
> I'm curious as to whether there were different drivers for the X-Gamer,
> Diamond and the other Live! cards, or just one driver for all of the cards.
> I went to the soundblaster website, but couldn't see any info to tell me
> otherwise.

> System specs:
> 400 mhz pentium
> 96 mb ram
> Voodoo 3 2000
> Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer
> 10 gig HD

> Dave

> >Hmmmm...broke the golden rule..NEVER buy a MOBO with a built in
soundcard,
> >my guess is windows is detecting the crystal soundcard AND the live!
> >and thus crashes........
> >try to remove the soundchip from your MOBO, it should be in a small slot
of some
> >kind...this might work

> There should be a way to disable the on-board audio, either using the BIOS
> or a jumper/switch on the mobo.

> You need to dl and install the SB Live 3.1 Liveware package which is about
> 28mb.  You can dl in packets though.  Many people have had problems with
> various games until doing this.  Available from SBLIVE site.

> Chris

> > I recently purchased a Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer soundcard, and installed
> > it.  In the process, I had to disable my computer's existing Crystal
> > soundcard, and now I have hard crashes, where I have to turn off the power
> > bar, every once in a while.   Basically, while looking around for drivers,
> > all I could find were generic drivers for all Soundblaster Live! cards, and
> > I'm curious as to whether there were different drivers for the X-Gamer,
> > Diamond and the other Live! cards, or just one driver for all of the cards.
> > I went to the soundblaster website, but couldn't see any info to tell me
> > otherwise.

> > System specs:
> > 400 mhz pentium
> > 96 mb ram
> > Voodoo 3 2000
> > Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer
> > 10 gig HD

> > Dave

>Hmmmm...broke the golden rule..NEVER buy a MOBO with a built in soundcard,
>my guess is windows is detecting the crystal soundcard AND the live!
>and thus crashes........
>try to remove the soundchip from your MOBO, it should be in a small slot of some
>kind...this might work

Huesmann) writes:

>>Hmmmm...broke the golden rule..NEVER buy a MOBO with a built in soundcard,
>>my guess is windows is detecting the crystal soundcard AND the live!
>>and thus crashes........
>>try to remove the soundchip from your MOBO, it should be in a small slot of
>some
>>kind...this might work

>There should be a way to disable the on-board audio, either using the BIOS
>or a jumper/switch on the mobo.