3 Irritating problems with my SB Live Value

[The Stigenator]

Guys,
I have a SB Live Value from early 1999 (Jan 15th is when I bought it from Fry's).

Anyway I didnt see these problem before reinstall and addition of components.

here are the problems in random order:
1. For some reason I am picking up a signal from somewhere sounds like a radio or tv sound (yes I have an ATI TV Wonder). I cant just seem to find where it emanates from.

2. Being an older SB Live Value I have SP/DIF and I have a cable running from my DVD Player (Toshiba). There are 2 cables running from the DVD player - one analog and one SP/DIF. However when Playing a CD, if I increase the volume in teh CD player it sounds with a lot of treble. I can use either Analog or Digital but if they are on together they have to mixed or one has to be turned off or it wont sound good.

3. How come if I mute one of the channels 3 other mute, so If mute Line In & Aux it mutes CD Audio.
and vice versa.


Oh by the way I running Live Ware 3.0 I belive and Win98SE.
My system config is:
P2-400, 384MB Ram, 10.1 GB IBM DTTA, SB Live Value, Creative Flash 56K, Linksys Modem, ATI TV Wonder, ATI Rage Fury Pro.

 

[Conroy9]

1) weird, I also have a TV wonder and don't have that problem

2) I'm not using spd/if, sorry

3) I don't understand what you're saying - what my problem was (in win98 at least) was that when I selected one linein source (line-in/cd-audio/mic) to record, it would mute the playback of the other sources
So i could not record to my mic and listen to cd at the same time, for example, and could not listen to cd and line-in at the same time
the solution was to turn on "digital output only" in the audiohq mixer
which is really messed up, but tech support doesn't believe me
in win2k, "digital output only" works as you'd expect it to.

 

[Eug]

I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly. Do you mean DVD-ROM drive? Or did you build some cables for your home DVD player? Either way...

2. Do you use both analog and digital at the same time from the same DVD? If so, the SB Live will try to mix them both together... and it will succeed, unfortunately, degrading the digital sound.

Forget the analogue cable completely since it's useless in this situation. Plus, the SB Live! analogue input is mediocre quality anyway.