BH6 and Sound Blaster Live! Value

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

 

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/

 

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

 

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

 

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.

REMOVE the NOCRAP in my address to reply.

 

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