sb live installation problems

[badman28]

I bought a sb live card at a computer show (possibly oem, used... not too sure but it was damn cheap) and the card makes my computer extremely unstable. the mouse gets stuck @ one position, I can't run any apps, the computer refuses to turn off, etc.
I have a duron 800 on an asus a7v-133 (w/ kt133a chipset), geforce 2 mx, 256 pc133 ram, maxtor hdd. I tried again cuz i heard there as new drivers from creative but i can't even get to install the new drivers because my computer crashes everytime. I tried disabling onboard sound, both by jumpers and bios settings, but it doesn't help. any ideas?? i heard creative cards had problems w/. drivers but i didnt know it was this bad. thanks

 

[kly1222]

Play musical chairs with your pci cards....just shuffle them around in your pci slots until you get something that works. This has worked for many people with problems dealing with creative cards.

 

[Mikki]

Originally posted by: kly1222
Play musical chairs with your pci cards....just shuffle them around in your pci slots until you get something that works. This has worked for many people with problems dealing with creative cards.

I agree. Also, did you install all the Live software or just the drivers? If you installed the software, get rid of it and try just the drivers. That fixed my problem.

 

[Peter]

The SB!Live has a PCI signalling issue (call it bug if you please) that tends to upset chipsets, VIA's in particular. There is an official workaround (in chipset programming) from VIA for this, so installing a later BIOS and/or VIA's 4-in-1 drivers might help you get rid of that freeze. Note that the workaround comes at the cost of losing some PCI performance.

regards, Peter

 

[CubicZirconia]

If you installed the software, get rid of it and try just the drivers. That fixed my problem.

Same here. All that extra software threw my pc out of whack. Seemed like nothing worked with it installed. I just reinstalled the card and only installed the bare drives. Everything has been running fine since.