Comp wont boot...

[Pastore]

Ok, I have a SB Live! Value card in my machine. I have never bothered installing the software for it, since windows installed all the necessary drivers without the install disks... Tonight, I decided that I should install the Creative software, BIG MISTAKE! The install seemed to go ok, but now it wont boot at all. I am running Win2k Pro, and as soon as it gets to the login screen (to windows), the computer immediately restarts itself. I have booted into safe mode, and uninstalled all of the software related to the card, but it still restarts just the same. What can I do to fix this? Please don't tell me I am going to have to format...

 

[Pastore]

HELP!!!

 

[goldboyd]

have you tried booting in last known good configuration?

 

[Pastore]

Tried that, restarts just the same...

 

[AmdEmAll]

Try reinstalling the os again.

 

[Pastore]

That is the very LAST thing that I want to do...

 

[BigToque]

try removing the card from the system, boot into save mode and remove the device from the device manager.

now try to boot back into normal mode and hope that it works (with the sound card still out of the system). if it boots up fine, shut down, put the sound card in, then re-load the newest drivers.

 

[Pastore]

Will try that, I just didn't want to have to clean my room to do this fix... Is anyone else like me? Stuff piled like 3 feet high around your comp? Especially soda cans?

 

[BigToque]

My room was packed with everything till 2 days ago. I spent 6 hours cleaning it up

 

[Pastore]

Ok, here are my results. I booted to safe mode without the card installed, removed all of its traces from device manager. I then booted into normal mode without card in, and everything booted fine. I shutdown and install the sound card, when I boot, the add device wizard comes up, and installs some WINMM drivers, then is done, asks me to restart, when I reboot, it restarts itself again....... what now?

 

[Pastore]

Stull stuck...

 

[BigToque]

repeat what I told you to above, but this time, while in safe mode,

rename the file: c:\WinNT\INF\wdma10k1.inf to something like wdma10k1.OLD
and
rename the file: c:\WinNT\INF\oem0.inf to something like oem0.OLD

(on your system the file may not be oem0.inf. On my system I have oem0 to oem7. Just open the file in notepad first to see if that file is for creative.)

then boot up the system without the card in normal mode again. if it works fine, shut down, put the card in again, and install the latest drivers again. (maybe try downloading the drivers again - they may be corrupted somehow)

 

[Pastore]

The drivers are off the install CD. What exactly am I doing by renaming the files?

 

[BigToque]

By renaming those files, windows will not re-install the old drivers already present on the system.

Also, dont use the drivers off the cd. there are newer better drivers at creatives website.

 

[Pastore]

Im going to bed for the night, I will work on it tomorrow. Thanks for all the help.

 

[Pastore]

I am still having the same problem... Can anyone help me?

 

[Pastore]

I am about to cry.

 

[Rectalfier]

First of all, use the liveware 3 package for win2k. If this does not work, try your card in different slots, I heard you should have your sblive in a non-shared irq slot.

 

[Pastore]

Thanks for everyones help, but I fixed it myself (Live!ware update)... Thanks again.

 

[Snoop]

Beast: Ok first think you need to do is make sure the drivers and proggies on the cd are the latest ones. I never use the drivers off of a cd when it comes, go to the sounblaster site and get the latest ones