I have tried everything to get this sound blaster to work and nothing seems to work. I have a compaq model 7470 and I am running windows 98 s.e. I can't disable the on board audio from the bios so I have to do it from the device manager. I have tried to do bios updates but every update I install shows that there is a resource conflict in System Board Extension for ACPI BIOS, except the one I am currently using which is the first one. The sound blaster installs completely but I can't get sound. The sound blaster is SB LIVE! VALUE. Model CT4780. Does anyone have any suggestions tha may help me? Thanks alot.
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can't get sound blaster to work
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Thanks Ben.
But still no sound. I even opened windows media player, then opened the volume controls. It showed that it was playing and nothing was muted but still no sound. At first I thought the card was bad but I took it over to a friends and installed it in his system and it worked. It's got me confused. Thanks.
But still no sound. I even opened windows media player, then opened the volume controls. It showed that it was playing and nothing was muted but still no sound. At first I thought the card was bad but I took it over to a friends and installed it in his system and it worked. It's got me confused. Thanks.
ski
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Are there any problems with the sound card in Device Manager?
Is it sharing an IRQ with another device?
Is it assigned 01 for 'Direct Memory Access' in Dev. Mgr.?
Also:
-Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Multimedia/Audio, make sure the sound card is selected in the 'Preferred Device'
window under 'Playback', click the Devices tab and click the + by 'Audio Devices' and make sure the circle is checked for 'Use Audio Features On This Device', and the box is unchecked for 'Do Not Map Thru This Device', click the + next to 'Audio Codecs' and make sure there's a long list of codecs(MS, etc.).
-Insert it in a different slot.
Is it sharing an IRQ with another device?
Is it assigned 01 for 'Direct Memory Access' in Dev. Mgr.?
Also:
-Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Multimedia/Audio, make sure the sound card is selected in the 'Preferred Device'
window under 'Playback', click the Devices tab and click the + by 'Audio Devices' and make sure the circle is checked for 'Use Audio Features On This Device', and the box is unchecked for 'Do Not Map Thru This Device', click the + next to 'Audio Codecs' and make sure there's a long list of codecs(MS, etc.).
-Insert it in a different slot.
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THANKS GUYS FOR ALL OF YOUR REPLIES.
A FRIEND BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT WHEN I FORMATTED MY HARD DRIVE A WHILE BACK THAT IT DELETED OUT THE PARTITIONS FOR MY BIOS AND TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM, I WOULD HAVE TO USE A RESTORE DISC AND RESTORE ALL OF THE PARTITIONS. I GUESS I WILL TRY THAT AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL WORK.
THANKS VERY MUCH
A FRIEND BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT WHEN I FORMATTED MY HARD DRIVE A WHILE BACK THAT IT DELETED OUT THE PARTITIONS FOR MY BIOS AND TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM, I WOULD HAVE TO USE A RESTORE DISC AND RESTORE ALL OF THE PARTITIONS. I GUESS I WILL TRY THAT AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL WORK.
THANKS VERY MUCH
CitrixEngineer
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Could be that the SB16 (DOS Emulation) drivers are loaded. Get rid of them and all should work fine.
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I fought w/a similar problem while talking w/microsoft for almost 2 days. I finally called creative labs and they instructed me to set the sound card to defaults. DMA 1 and 5, IRQ5, etc... If all else fails, call creative labs.
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