Help with SB Live Value & Win2k

[Anonymous]

I have a sb live value and it works fine under win98, but after i install win2k, it doesn\'t not work anymore (ie. no sound). I tried to install the newest driver (from Creative Lab\'s Site), it said \"setup could not detect any sb card on the system\"...the strange thing is that when i tried to install the driver manually (from the default list of driver in win2k, ie the wdm), it said that the device (ie, the sblive card) is working properly....does anyone else have this problem?

[Musk]

Try uninstalling the sound card through the Device Manager then reinstalling it with the drivers from Creative.

[sjmike]

I\'ve had the exact same problem with Sound Blaster Live Value card in Win2k SP1. AMD Athlon 950, Soyo Motherboard http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />   It intstalls fine and Windows says its working properly, but no sound is coming out.  I\'ve disabled the on-board sound, tried unistalling it and reinstalling w/ both the drivers cd included and the ones from the website.

Still no sound.  I heard soundblaster cards aren\'t very compatible w/ AMD processors or motherboards

[$hungry]

What you need to do to overcome this problem:
1) Install software from the LiveWare CD.
2) Uninstall your SB Live \"Windows driver ONLY\" by going to Add/Remove programs.
3) Install latest Win2k driver from Creative website.
4) Reboot system and your audio should work perfectly.

[Tom Minerd]

The Sound Blaster Live card is natively supported in Windows 2000. You should not need any other drivers, just the extra software that is compatible with windows 2000. If you have installed the extra sw that was for Windows 98, this may be causing this problem. You need to uninstall that software.

[Anonymous]

all i can say to this behaviour is that sometimes win2k initializes the sb live value in \"digital output only\" mode, so you won\'t hear anything as long you don\'t connect a digital device to the soundcard.
open the play control and go to the additional properties, there is the checkbox \"digital output only\" and remove the tick in this box.
i hope this solves your problem

[Anonymous]

Make sure that the \"audio HQDevice optionsLiveDrive!mute speakers when using headphones\" is not checked

[spockman1]

You may have inadvertantly installed the wrong drivers:  Creative doesn\'t have a good way of distinguishing between some of their software/drivers.

Make sure to get the drivers that are for the Live! Value card and not the ones for the Live! 5.1, etc...  I had this problem, too.  I have both cards (5.1 in my machine, Value in my wife\'s machine).  I had to delete all of the Creative drivers from the machine, reboot, then reinstall the correct drivers, reboot, then all worked fine.  

If you don\'t delete the drivers, installing the correct ones won\'t work!!!!!

[graphman_usa]

Win2000 CD did not find a native driver for my SBLive.
After repeated REMOVING and REINSTALLING I finally
got the Creative SBLive WDM driver to run. However,
it is a poor driver compared to the driver for their new
AUDIGY, which also works with SBLive ! Audio latency
is way down now and ASIO is supported !!

[Anonymous]

I had also the same problem.I installed the basic drivers for the SB live and everything is working fine now.I know that this solution isn\'t 100% correct but it\'s a solution anyway.

[Dr. Avant Garde]

I have just been pulling my hair with this same problem.
(System: Tbird 900, Epox 8kta board, SB Live Value)
I re-installed Win2k and the SBLive drivers...checks out in system ok but no sound!
Un-installed, re-installed, tried everything mentioned above.

Finally was able to fix it by dropping the SBLive down 1 PCI slot. I rebooted win2k w/o the SB Live in. The rebooted with it in the new PCI slot and voila it autodetected and set it up and it worked. Then I installed the SB Live drivers and all is finally well http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Anonymous]

D/L drivers from Gateway. it works perfectly!!!

[Anonymous]

yep, i had the same problem, though what i found was that win2k, install it as Creative SB Live! Basic (WDM).
The sound card works fine, but I am unable yo use the Live!ware software. (No, not the win98 version, but win2k).
Whic I don\'t think is to much of a problem.
I have contacted creative and gateway over this, with not much luck.

[Anonymous]

Check your soundcard, it may be due to it. I had the exact same problem and error message, I changed it to another SBLive and it\'s working fine now.

[rdc]

If you have installed liveware 3.0 .Liveware 3.0 usually works on w2k,with me it does .Uninstall every installed program and driver from your sblive , let w2k set it\'s own wdm driver ,and then setup liveware 3.0 .
Good luck

[oscar]

HOW DID YOU INSTALL THE AUDIGY DRIVERS WITH THE SBLIVE CARD!?? PLEASE TELL ME I\'M DYING FOR ASIO!!!

[rdc]

http://come.to/sblive/
This is also a site with asio drivers .
Don\'t ask anything else I didn\'t install them

[Anonymous]

this forum is pants

[Wraith]

I just got rid of this problem. I disabled IRQ Steering from with in the device manager under computer.

[XPadmin]

I have also the same problem, no sound under W2K, XP Pro, no yellow exclamation in device manager, tried uninstalling and reinstalling new driver but still no sound on digital and analog output. System: Intel BX motherboard and SB Live Value s/card. Under WIN98SE all works fine.