My sound card is gone!

[coop]

I upgraded my Graphics card to a Geforce 3 Ti2000 and after installing the drivers(2.3.1.1) and rebooting I found that my Soundblaster Value had disappeared from Device Manager.

I am running Windows XP.  I tried to download the drivers from Creative\'s web site(Sbliveupdate.exe), but when I attempted the install it told me I didn\'t have a sound card in my system?  

Does anyone have any idea how I can persuade my system that I really do have a sound card?

[rdc]

I had only some problems with the digital output ,but the analog output was ok . I have sblive , and geforce3 ti-200 64mb . Try replacing the sound blaster to another pci slot , perhaps your sb value is on the same irq with your agp slot and conflicts with it
good luck

[Anonymous]

Thanks, The system was showing some Legacy audio drivers installed, so I deleted them in Safe mode.  Moved the Sound blaster to the next PCI slot and XP detected it fine.

So now I have sound.  But.

I now experience lockups during games.  The games run in software mode with sound so I\'m pretty sure I have a video driver issue.

I have downloaded around 10 different driver versions so I will try them tonight.

Same thing happened before with a Geforce 2.  The only drivers that worked were 12.41, anything higher caused lockups.

Thanks for your help!

[rdc]

Try the 2312 detonator . I let XP detect the driver via internet and XP installed the 2312 .I have installed the actual 2311 , the 2700 ,the 2720 and the 2742 before and I allways got applicaions closing with \"memory could not be read\"  errors .
With the 2312 driver the application errors have disappeared .
 .If you have installed a driver allready uninstal it via \"add or remove programs \" or if not possible via the device manager , before you let XP install the driver via internet .
Good luck!

[coop]

Okay, I got both cards installed.  

But whatever I try, the pc locks up.  When I put the geforce 2 back in the system runs fine.  The Geforce 3 does share an IRQ with about every card in the system(2 network cards, sblive) but I\'m not convinced that is the problem as the Geofrce 2 did the same.

After hours and hours of trying different bios settings and different drivers I had just about given up.  

When I installed my new graphics card I also installed a new processor.  I went from a Duron 700 to a Duron 1200 as this was the maximum the board could take.  I wondered if the problem is heat related so I checked the temp is bios and it told me the CPU was running at 59c.  I\'m not sure if this is okay.  When I replaced the CPU, I just put the same fan in (not sure if this was wise or not?), I am also unsure if I need to put some heatsink compound on as well.

I am now thinking that my problem is power.  The Duron 700 run at 1.5v( I think) and the new one runs at 1.75, so do I need to change anything? The bios(latest one) detected the new chip correctly.

I have read that many people with a KT133 board are having problems with Geforce 3 cards and the AGP driver.  I don\'t know if this affects me or not, but I have installed the latest 4 in 1 driver.  My board is a ECS K7VZA

I have now convinced myself the the power supply must be the problem, as I presume that the duron 1200 would take more power than the 700 and the same with the Geforce 3 Ti200.  I have checked my current supply and it it only 235w.

Is that the problem?    

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[rdc]

I saw a lot about  processors and overheating  in the forums overhere ,but I have an intel processor p3 700 fsb 100 ,abit bf6 , 440bx chip , and didn\'t experience any overheating , so I cannot give you valuable advice about it .
Take a look at the forums or search with overheating .
Good luck .

[Trippy]

coop...

everyone is havin trouble with geforce3 even me.
athlone 1.4 tbird 266
ECS K7S5A sis735
Geforce3 (3Dpower)
audigy gamer x
512meg infineon (german ram)
350 watts (Enhance)
winXP

ok i had the sound card problem so i did change the slots by accident and it worked http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />
however, my system has been lockin up, i guess the same IRQ problem even before the installing sound card.  my system is runnig at 1Ghz istead of 1.4 so that this lock up doesn\'t happen as fast.  you know when XP fails it auto reboots.......sad but true.

i\'m glad we are discussing this cuz its a really bad problem.
i know it\'s not the ram nor the power shoortage.
i guess the combination of geforce with ECS board and XP [censored]s up every thing.

btw coop and system over 1 Ghz it\'s recomened to use at least 300watt power supp.  also i would buy a vocano heatsink kit its really cheap ($30 max).  
www.pricewatch.com is the place to compare prices http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

to be honest i\'m buying an intel system next time, [censored] cheap ass athlone.