'2gmgsmt.sf2 on Creative CD-ROM cannot be found'

[BarryMurphy]

I've done a reinstall of Win98 and now I can't use my soundcard (Soundblaster Live). I get this error message:

*New Hardware Found*
The file '2gmgsmt.sf2' on Creative CD-ROM cannot be found.
Insert Creative CD-ROM in the selected drive, and click OK.

Reinstalling the Soundblaster Live software doesn't fix it.

 

[reghakr]

Barry,

It's possible it's already on your system. Click the Browse button and select the c:\windows\system directory. This happens with Network Components on occassion.

Or go directly to Creative's site and download the free LiveWare program, no doubt updated from your CD anyway.

reghakr

 

[BarryMurphy]

You were right - it was on my system. I used Find: Files and Folders. After I located that file I had to do the same with a string of others, and they were located in different places. Now the sound card works fine. I think a bunch of files went missing after I reinstalled Win98. I still haven't been able to get some of my other software working yet, but I'll get there.
Thanks for the tip about the LiveWare program - I will check that out.

 

[jazzmaster]

Even more: the 2mb.sf file is nothing other than a the bank of midi instruments used by the card for playing midi files. If you never use midi files you even do not need it it. At each start of the computer it is loaded into ram, system ram actually!!!! The card itself has no ram. you can allocate up to half your memory to sampled midi banks.
Look for soundfont on the web...if you find the midi sounds cheesy, you can use any wav as midi instrument. use the free tool Vienna to make your .sf files yourself using .wav files (any). Load them into memory via Audio headquarters>soundfont. Choose free memslot, load bank or instrument...