Nasty weekend with the computer

[Rent]

A few days ago there was a thread about various sound cards and their quality... I was convinced to swap out my SBLive! to give my old MX300 another try.

At first, it was ok... I noticed that playing several waves at 1 time would degrade the overall quality(moreso than my SBLive). So I went into game testing... enabled A3D... blah blah blah

Well I came to the conclusion after 2 days of listening to it that I liked the SBLive much better overall. So I threw it back in, rebooted the machine, started to install the drivers... freezes. Reboot, detects new hardware, BOOM, BSOD! :|

So, 8 hours, 4 formats, moving the innards of my machine around, I got it to work again.

I just fully realized how resource greedy the SBLive is... oh well... I hope Creative goes to hell. I still can't figure out why my machine would just freeze on the install of Liveware before I moved the card. :|

Last time I listen to you punks 😉 😀

 

[Topochicho]

[simpsons kid] hah hah {/simpsons kid]

You see Creative is really the best by far, we just like to lead the unwary down a road of doom and dispair. 😉

PS
I have found (particularly when dealing with modems and sound cards) that you should install the drivers, before installing the hardware, that is true even on a reinstall of the card.