SB Live owners please read and HELP!!!

[StrangeRanger]

My setup: soyo 6ba+iv, w98, 128mb, maxtor 15.3g on ata66 on-board controller, teac cd540e on primary master, acer 50x on primary slave, plextor 8/4/32 on secondary master, cl tnt2u and sb live. Problem:when i install the sb live it steals the DMA channel from my plextor and causes windows to no longer recognize the plextor drive! according to plextor for best results this drive should be the secondary master and MUST have DMA enabled. But the sb live is killing it. anyone ever have a similar problem or ideas how to fix. yes i've tried different pci slots, with and w/out dos support for the sb live etc. i liked the card and dont' want to ahve to return it. i'll try anything. thnx,
j

 

[dee]

I've got a sblive value - not the same thing but similar.

When you say dma do you mean the dma 1 & 5 used by sb emulation?

If you do there's two things you can do

1. In system properties - select creative misc devices - sb16 emulation.

Select the resources tab.

Untick "use automatic settings"

Change the "Settings based on" combo box to "Basic configuration 005"


This will free up dma 5.



If this does not solve the prob u could try this

2. Reinstall the card off the cd that came with it.

On the setup screen make sure you select install dos drivers.

This will add a dos folder somewhere below the program files/creative folder level.

In this folder is a program which allows you to totally disable sb16 emulation (I think - its been a while since I mucked acound with my sb). I think it called sbcfg.exe - but I'm sure theres only a couple of exe's installed - try all of them.

By the way, I'm fairly sure the program must be run from a pure dos session.

 

[dee]

forget #2 - it only disables emulation in dos.

 

[StrangeRanger]

If anyone ever has a similar problem, email me. i fingered it out.
j