Here is my problem. I have upgraded my CPU from a PentiumIII 550mhz to a PentiumIII 800e. The swap over went just fine. The problem arose when I booted up the machine for the first time after the swap. Just before Windows finished loading I got a "blue screen" showing a fatal error and a code. I hit the space bar and Windows went ahead and finished loading. As I started playing with my system I realized that anytime a sound is supposed to come through the Sound Blaster Live and out the speakers I get this same fault and no sound comes out. It makes no difference whether the sound is trying to be played by the OS or a Creative Labs application. I used the uninstall utility within the Creative Labs applications to uninstall all applications and drivers for the Sound Blaster Live and rebooted. As Windows was loading, the "Add New Hardware" tried to load drivers for the card but I cancelled out of all of them and let Windows boot without the sound card. All aspects of my system worked perfectly without it except that I had no sound. I then tried reloading the drivers for the card and all the applications thinking that maybe the drivers had become corrupt somewhere along the way. After doing this I had the same problem with the same fault every time a sound tried to generate so I again uninstalled everything associated with the sound card and that is how the system sits now.
I have already checked the obvious such as IRQ assignments and for conflicts within device manager and there are no problems in either place. I have my mother board flashed with the most recent BIOS and the ASUS P3B-F does support the 800e. All I can think of is that I need a more up-to-date driver but I can't imagine why with just a CPU upgrade. If this is not the problem then there is possibly something wrong within the OS?? I don't believe this to be a hardware problem due to the fact that I hear the characteristic "pops" from the speakers after a reboot as Windows loads the drivers for the sound card. This is the same as before I changed the CPU. Please help!!
Windows98se (fully updated)
ASUS P3B-F (BIOS ver. 1006)
Pentium 3 800e 100mhz (slot 1)
256mb Crucial RAM
ASUS GeForce V6800 32mb (AGP)
Promise FastTrak 66 (PCI #2)
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live (PCI #3)
3Com Ethernet Card TX-905-C (PCI #4)
2 Western Digital 20.5 gig HHD's (Mirrored)
ASUS 50x CD ROM
Plextor IDE 8x-4x-32x Burner
Imation 120mb SuperDrive
I have already checked the obvious such as IRQ assignments and for conflicts within device manager and there are no problems in either place. I have my mother board flashed with the most recent BIOS and the ASUS P3B-F does support the 800e. All I can think of is that I need a more up-to-date driver but I can't imagine why with just a CPU upgrade. If this is not the problem then there is possibly something wrong within the OS?? I don't believe this to be a hardware problem due to the fact that I hear the characteristic "pops" from the speakers after a reboot as Windows loads the drivers for the sound card. This is the same as before I changed the CPU. Please help!!
Windows98se (fully updated)
ASUS P3B-F (BIOS ver. 1006)
Pentium 3 800e 100mhz (slot 1)
256mb Crucial RAM
ASUS GeForce V6800 32mb (AGP)
Promise FastTrak 66 (PCI #2)
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live (PCI #3)
3Com Ethernet Card TX-905-C (PCI #4)
2 Western Digital 20.5 gig HHD's (Mirrored)
ASUS 50x CD ROM
Plextor IDE 8x-4x-32x Burner
Imation 120mb SuperDrive
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