Need help from someone w/ soundblaster live using win98

[Bronxkid]

I installed soundblaster live 5.1 xgamer and everytime I load windows I get a message that there's an IRQ conflict between SB16 emulator and PCI IRQ (that's exactly what it says). I don't know if SB16emulator is necessary so I didn't remove it. I don't know much about computers but I was able to find out that the IRQ for sb16 emulator is on IRQ 5. I don't know what it's in conflict with. My sound is fine on my computer. Under my hardware info I see gameport joystick, multimedia, and creative sb16 emulator under creative misc. devices. THe actual sb live is under sound/video games. I see a exclamation point under pci system management bus under "other devices" and it says no driver is installed, not that there's an IRQ conflict. I tried installing new driver but it doesn't find anything on the windows cd. Don't know if this is the pci that's in conflict with sb16 emulator. Can anyone help? Thanks. Error messages are so annoying (and also so frequent!) in windows.

 

[newbiepcuser]

You might try this, disable a serial port, COM 2 in the bios. Then this should free up an IRQ. Goto Hardware Manager for Windows 98 and remove the conflicting sound card items on the IRQ, reboot and see if that fixes it.

 

[shockX]

if what newbiepcuser said doesnt work, try moving the sound card into another pci slot. i had the same problem where whenever i boot up it would say that the SB16 Emulation was having a IRQ conflict, so i moved the card to another slot and it changed the IRQ and fixed it.

 

[TripleJ]

Go into the Device Manager, open Creative Miscellaneous Devices, double click on SB16 Emulation, click on the Settings tab and down the bottom tick the box that says Allow LPT Interrupt Sharing. Click OK, restart and that should fix it.

 

[NJArtist]

disable the sb16 emulation.

 

[TripleJ]

It is only DOS related so sounds just wont be played while in DOS. If you disable it, it will still beep and complain and carry on during startup.

 

[Bronxkid]

I'm sure all the solutions would have worked, but I changed to lpt share like TripleJ said and it worked (It was the one solution that I knew I could follow w/o fu**ing up. This is why I love this site; everyone here knows so much and is willing to help. Thanks guys.

BTW, if anyone else reads this: I get the error message unable to load dynamic link library msnp32.dll everytime I boot my computer. I tried searching the windows98 cd but can't find it. Can anyone help? Thanks. THis is the last problem I'll attempt to solve tonight!

 

[Bronxkid]

new problem listed above sorry to have to bump

 

[bacillus]

try using SFC. Start/run & type sfc & run sfc to see if your file is corrupt or damaged. the file is on the win98 cd if you need to restore & the program will find it when you point to the cd for restore.