Soundcard Driver Question

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

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 "Dave St.Onge" wrote:

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> 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

Or if you don't want to download such a big file, you can download just the drivers without the new software. The latest drivers are called sbl9xdrv1199.zip and are 5 MB. And yes, all the Live cards share the same drivers.

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Joseph Huesmann) writes:

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>In article <[email hidden]>, amos-opus wrote: >>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. >

Funny, on mine(see other thread), I disabled the USB port in BIOS, since I don't have any usb devices. However, Win95 keeps FINDING the damn thing! That's not the first time I've seen that happen. Is win95 just psychic?<g> Ponderous... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Own Grand Prix Legends? Goto http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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 Sudesh capa wrote:

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> 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 > > "Dave St.Onge" wrote: > > > 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

In article <[email hidden]>, amos-opus wrote: >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.

Yeah, I disabled it in the bios, and now it says "Crystal Chipset Cannot be Found". I downloaded the driver "sbl9xdrv1199.zip, and installed it. However, when I go into the properties for the "Device Manager>Sound,Video,Game Controllers>Soundblaster Live, and then check the driver properties, it shows 8-26-99, even though it should be updated with the driver from November.... Dave Joseph Huesmann" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <[email hidden]>, amos-opus wrote: > >Hmmmm...broke the golden rule..NEVER buy a MOBO with a built insoundcard, > >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 slotof 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.