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K7T Turbo2 and SB Live! cards...

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CSFM

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I installed an Athlon XP1800+ into a new K7T Turbo2 last night, I disabled the on board sound... installed the new vidoe card (Ati Radeon 7200) and put a few other bits and pieces in. I cannot get the Soundblaster to work... I have disabled the on board sound as I said and now the sound on board is working (without me enabling it again) I cannot enter my BIOS to change this as it just hangs the system if I press DEL on startup. I know it has nothing to do with the other PCI cards on the board... it is just the soundBlaster Live Platinim that wont work. I tried to force feed a driver to it but it went nuts and gave me blue screens on start up. I am running Win2K SP2.
I am baffled as to why it just wont work.... anyone? 😕
 
Anyone...
I know there were problems with this chipset and SoundBlaster cards... but I was under the impression that these had been sorted out. Why ohh why can't I enter my BIOS on start up? This has never happened to me before and I build maybe 2 PC's a week... I am a networking consultant so I am limited in what I know about why this would be happening.

Any help?
 
I cannot enter the BIOS... the system fails when I press DEL to enter it at start up.
I flashed the BIOS and still nothing. I am going to take the card out and try to get into it then... the onboard sound is working... I jsut want my remote control so I can lay in bed and watch DVD's.... 🙁

I am sure I can fix it... but I am really looking to see if someone else has had this problem
 
Sorry mate... I didn't read you posy correctly. I will try that out. Thanks. Do you have any ideas as to why this would happen?
 
I think the problem lies in the onboard sound option in the BIOS- you say that it works when it's disabled? That sounds very weird.

Cheers
 
Before I installed any software (including Win2K) I went into the BIOS and disabled the onboard sound. I had already installed these cards:
Texas instruments fire wire IEEE1394 card
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum and Live! drive.
Adaptec SCSI 2 card (can not remember the model number)
Ati Radeon 7200 Video card
Realtek 1439 network card

I installed all drives as well... 60 Gig Maxtor, Sony SCSI CDR/RW, Pioneer DVD 16x player and of course an innocent floppy drive.

Win2K went off with out a hitch... So the problem lies solely with the MoBo.

ah heck!!!
 
holdencommodore... You wouldn't happen to be a fellow Australian would you? 😉

Nice day in Melbourne today! About time too...
 
Yes....I'm from Melbourne 🙂 ...going to Brisbane for 2 weeks though (more hot weather....leaving tomorrow) 🙂

Resetting the BIOS by jumper is the only thing I can think of......as well as chainging PCI slots...If you are still having trouble, you can go to a great sound forum at 3D Sound Surge....i'm sure there will be someone there who could help you resolve it 🙂

Cheers.
 
Take out the sound card and see if you can enter BIOS.
In BIOS make sure you disable ALL instances of sound, gameport, midi whatever - I mean everything.
Go into WIn2K and remove all sound related stuff (uninstall everything related to sound).
Reboot again and see if it still installs onboard sound - if it does you still did not disable onboard sound properly - check again. Reboot again and check (sorry you have to learn to do this)
If OK then install that monster SBLive and see if OK.
My SBLive is installed in PCI 3 or PCI 4 can't remember now - but try PCI 4 first and then 3 if it does not work.
 
Take out the sound card and see if you can enter BIOS. In BIOS make sure you disable ALL instances of sound, gameport, midi whatever - I mean everything.
Go into WIn2K and remove all sound related stuff (uninstall everything related to sound).
Reboot again and see if it still installs onboard sound - if it does you still did not disable onboard sound properly - check again. Reboot again and check (sorry you have to learn to do this)
If OK then install that monster SBLive and see if OK.
My SBLive is installed in PCI 3 or PCI 4 can't remember now - but try PCI 4 first and then 3 if it does not work

Thanks for the advice... I did all of those things the other night.... The trouble was that I couldn't enter the BIOS at all... card in or out.

So last night I reset the CMOS through the onboard jumper setting and I could get into the BIOS again. For some strange reason the onboard sound had enabled itself again!!?!! So I disabled it again and started Windows, it detected my sound card and all was well once again. The only thing now is that my remote centre isn't working. The SoundBlaster site has no information about trouble shooting this problem...

I am very happy with the AMD processor. This is my first AMD machine! I build them for others, but personally I have always used Intel CPU's. I have to say that I am very impressed with the Athlon XP1800+ They have outdone themselves!

So now my home network has 4 machines on it permanently!

1 x Intel Pentium 2 266Mhz
1 x Intel Pentium 3 733Mhz
1 x AMD Athlon XP1600+
1 x AMD Athlon XP1800+

All working on cable internet via my router and 8 port 10/100 NWay switching hub. I love it! Now all I would like to get in a nice laptop so I can hook it up wireless and sit in the garden in the sun while working or surfing the internet! But that is later next year. I am also going to get one more machine for the home network... I know one thing is for sure, and that is that the new machine will have an AMD processor in it. 😉
 
This may not help you much, but the SBLive is compatible with the K7T Turbo2 (at least under Win98SE and presumable Win2K as well). The chipset/SB Live compatibility issues have indeed been solved and should not be a problem with this motherboard.
 
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