Problem with Creative labs x-gamer

[Tchen811]

I have a Trinity 400 S1854 and the bio rev is 1.07. There is also a letter K marked on the motherboard. This machine is operated on Windows 98 SE. I have a creative lab geforce gts video card, 3com network card, and a creative lab live x-gamer sound card installed. My problem is when the sound card is installed, the computer would boot into windows very very slowly. Once the sound card is pulled out, the promblem is solved. I have also tried another creative labs x-gamer sound card and it has the same problem. Also I've tired switching the sound card on different PCI slots. Also when Windows is detecting the sound card, it took a long time for it to install the SB 16 Emulation. Is there anyway to disable it so windows won't detect it? Also is there a compatibility issue with creative lab sound cards? Thanks

 

[Erasmus-X]

First of all, how important is legacy DOS sound support to you? Initializing the DOS emulation and assigning an IRQ to the card for that is what is making your bootup slower. You can disable DOS emulation entirely by removing the references to the sound card in your autoexec.bat and config.sys. Next, just right-click My Computer, choose Properties and click on the Device Manager tab. From there, expand "Creative Miscellaneous Devices" and choose Sound Blaster 16 Emulation. Open up its properties and disable the hardware profile. Simply removing it from the Device Manager won't work, because the next time you reboot Windows will find it and enable it again.

 

[Wik]

Make sure you have the latest drivers and software for the SBLive. It helped my friends boot up problems.