BH6 and Sound Blaster Live! Value

[Alan (12)]

I bought a Sound Blaster Live! Value card (CT4780) on Ebay recently and haven't been able to get it to work. It was a bare card with no drivers. Oddly enough, I only get sound out of it when I play an audio CD. No sound from wav, mp3, or midi files. I've checked the standard culprits: sources aren't muted in the mixer, volume is turned up, no IRQ conflicts, drivers seem to be installed correctly, digital output is disabled. I thought it might be due to left-over drivers from the ISA sound card I had installed before, so I tried a clean install of Windows with just the Sound Blaster installed. No luck. The drivers came from the Creative web site for the Windows 98 SoundBlaster Live! Value. I'm running out of ideas to try. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Here are some details of my setup:

Windows 98
Abit BH6 motherboard
Celeron 1.1GHz
448 MB RAM
WD 80GB hard drive
WD 10GB hard drive
Yamaha CRW2200EZ
Diamond Viper V770 AGP TNT2 video card
Best Data 56FW PCI modem (slot 3)
Sound Blaster Live! (slot 2)
Floppy disk

[IRQs]

0 System timer
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
2 Programmable interrupt controller
3 Communications Port (COM2)
4 Communications Port (COM1)
5 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller 5 NVIDIA RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro 5 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 5 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller 7 Printer Port (LPT1) 8 System CMOS/real time clock 9 (free) 10 Creative SB Live! Value 10 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 11 Best Data PCI Modem Enumerator 11 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port 13 Numeric data processor 14 Primary IDE controller (dual fifo) 14 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller 15 Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) 15 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller

 

[- HAL9000]

Have you contacted the seller?

Yea, the sound card won't work without the latest drivers as the card is newer than the operating system.

When you play CDs (in win98) the audio comes from the audio jack on the side of the CD drive and plays through the jack on the sound card.

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.comcast.net/~hal-9000/

On 17 Oct 2003 15:03:18 -0700, (alan) wrote:

I bought a Sound Blaster Live! Value card (CT4780) on Ebay recently and haven't been able to get it to work. It was a bare card with no drivers. Oddly enough, I only get sound out of it when I play an audio CD. No sound from wav, mp3, or midi files. I've checked the standard culprits: sources aren't muted in the mixer, volume is turned up, no IRQ conflicts, drivers seem to be installed correctly, digital output is disabled. I thought it might be due to left-over drivers from the ISA sound card I had installed before, so I tried a clean install of Windows with just the Sound Blaster installed. No luck. The drivers came from the Creative web site for the Windows 98 SoundBlaster Live! Value. I'm running out of ideas to try. Does anyone have any suggestions? ...

 

[New Question]

Try a video card other than the Diamond Viper and see what happens.

"alan" wrote:

I bought a Sound Blaster Live! Value card (CT4780) on Ebay recently and haven't been able to get it to work. It was a bare card with no drivers. Oddly enough, I only get sound out of it when I play an audio CD. No sound from wav, mp3, or midi files. I've checked the standard culprits: sources aren't muted in the mixer, volume is turned up, no IRQ conflicts, drivers seem to be installed correctly, digital output is disabled. I thought it might be due to left-over drivers from the ISA sound card I had installed before, so I tried a clean install of Windows with just the Sound Blaster installed. No luck. The drivers came from the Creative web site for the Windows 98 SoundBlaster Live! Value. I'm running out of ideas to try. Does anyone have any suggestions? ...

 

[Berniez]

There is some kind of a bug using Win98 and that Sound Blaster live. If I remember right, you need to reserve irq 5 for the slot that the soundblaster live is in. This will fix the problem. It seems the card under win98 will not work right unless it uses irq 5. There is a faq in the sounblaster web site that addresses this somewhere. Bernie

New Question wrote:

Try a video card other than the Diamond Viper and see what happens.

"alan" wrote:

I bought a Sound Blaster Live! Value card (CT4780) on Ebay recently and haven't been able to get it to work. It was a bare card with no drivers. Oddly enough, I only get sound out of it when I play an audio CD. No sound from wav, mp3, or midi files. I've checked the standard culprits: sources aren't muted in the mixer, volume is turned up, no IRQ conflicts, drivers seem to be installed correctly, digital output is disabled. I thought it might be due to left-over drivers from the ...

 

[Len]

I have a soundblaster live but not sure what model it is and I am not about to take it out to find out. I have never had a problem with installing it under win98se, here is a list of my IRQ's 0 System timer 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard 2 Programmable interrupt controller 3 Communications Port (COM2) 4 Communications Port (COM1) 5 Communications Port (COM4) 6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller 7 ECP Printer Port (LPT1) 8 System CMOS/real time clock 9 3Com EtherLink 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX) 9 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller 9 Matrox Millennium G550 - English 9 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 9 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 10 Creative SB Live! Value 10 Win9x-ME Promise Ultra100 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller 10 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 10 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering 11 Always IN-2000 SCSI Host Adapter 12 Microsoft PS/2 Mouse (IntelliPoint) 13 Numeric data processor 14 Primary IDE controller (dual fifo) 14 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller 15 Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) 15 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller

AGP Matrox video card
empty
sound blaster
promise
3com nic
modem com4 ISA
scsi card ISA

The only forced IRQ is 11 for the old scsi card for my scanner.

Not saying there is not an IRQ5 problem but I have never seen it here.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:47:05 GMT, Berniez wrote:

There is some kind of a bug using Win98 and that Sound Blaster live. If I remember right, you need to reserve irq 5 for the slot that the soundblaster live is in. This will fix the problem. It seems the card under win98 will not work right unless it uses irq 5. There is a faq in the sounblaster web site that addresses this somewhere. Bernie

New Question wrote:
Try a video card other than the Diamond Viper and see what happens.

"alan" wrote:

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REMOVE the NOCRAP in my address to reply.

 

[Alan (12)]

I finally got everything working. I had to download and install the original CT4780 drivers and applications (found them at www.pionex.com) before I got everything to work. (It was a 100 MB file.) Updating later to the latest Windows 98 drivers from the Creative site hosed everything up. I don't know if it is something unique about my setup or something about Windows 98 standard that caused the problem.

By the way, I got hold of and installed the WIN98SE/ME drivers (no applications). They allowed sound to come out of the first line out jack from all sources, but didn't give me a way to enable sound out of the second line out jack. They also hosed up the Creative applications. I had to reinstall all the original drivers and applications. The Creative mixer application provides the way to enable sound out of the second line out jack.

I didn't have to make any IRQ reassignments, change slots, or move jumpers.

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions.

Alan

Len wrote:

I have a soundblaster live but not sure what model it is and I am not about to take it out to find out. I have never had a problem with installing it under win98se, here is a list of my IRQ's 0 System timer 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard 2 Programmable interrupt controller 3 Communications Port (COM2) 4 Communications Port (COM1) 5 Communications Port (COM4) 6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller 7 ECP Printer Port (LPT1) 8 System CMOS/real time clock ...