SB live problem?(liveware)

[nickburns]

i had just got my new system going (amd 1ghz, asus a7v, 256 mb micron, matrox g400 max) and i am dual booting with win2k and win 98SE. I mostly use 98 cuz win2k seems to have poor quality of video and desktop appearance, and also interent explorer closes down as soon as i start up, but sorry thats off topic. MY problem is that in windows 98, i loaded liveware 3.0 for my SB live value card and it ran the setup and told me that i had to restart my computer, si i did, and now if i choose to boot up into win98, it tells me that there is a windows protection error and will only oad into safe mode???any suggestions.
as of now, it looks like a re-format, and if i do that should i re-install win2k too?

 

[nickburns]

please, any help???

 

[schmoe]

I would say, reinstall the live drivers and make sure you have the Win98 version.

 

[nickburns]

it wont let me into windows 98se to reload the drivers, a format is the only way out i think

 

[Twilling]

Hey before you format try uninstalling in win 98. Use the win98 uniinstaller, this will safely remove this resouce hogging card. I have the SB live MP3+, and it refused to work in win98 at all. (Had a conflict somewhere) But works like a charm in win2000. Also if you don't have high-end speakers don't waste you money on this card.

 

[rmblam]

Did you download the liveware? Personally I was not able to get them to work on any of my machines (glutton for punishment the 3rd time - never again). I think the installation is a pain in the @ss. Off the original disk they work fine, but I still limit what it can install (just the basics) and add the rest later. Very buggy. Now I cross my fingers when I get to the SB when configuring a new machine.

Good luck.

 

[Spurst]

in all honesty, i'd reformat the machine.

I would also check my disk drive and make sure it is working good with no bad sectors.

I mean your win2k seems to be dead, and now your 98 is having issues. If you reformat you might just be able to reformat and avoid many of the issues you previously had.
there could be issues with your old soundcard drives still remaining in the registry or maybe it didnt manage the IRQ's correctly. Either way, a reformat could fix it.

 

[Raincity]

Its a resource problem. I run into this issue with the SBLIVE one out of every five machines I build with the SBLIVE. Boot into safe mode and change the SB16 emulator to share resources with your lpt port and that should fix you right up. If not try changing the pci slot for the SB since its probally trying to share memory with another device.

Rain

 

[jaredm77]

reinstall the operating system using a bootdisk, it will take care of the Windows Protection Error.

 

[rmblam]

Nic, you have it in slot 3 yes? Slot 3 is the only unshared slot. Slot 1 shares with the AGP, slot 2 shares with the Promise controller, slot 4 and 5 share the same IRQ with the USB controller. I also have IRQ's assigned in my bios and Plug and Play OS set to NO. COM ports disabled to free up those valuable IRQ's.

I get a crazy neverending reboot cycle if I use any card in slot 2.

My arrangement:

slot 1 = NIC = IRQ 3 in bios
slot 2 = empty
slot 3 = SB Live MP3+ = IRQ 5 in bios
slot 4 = Modem = IRQ 4 in bios
slot 5 = empty

I still had installation problems trying the downloaded liveware during a fresh re-install. After reformatting and using the disk it went flawlessly.

For what it's worth.

Check the DMA assigment of your HD or drives also. One guy had to switch it because the SB was conflicting when it tried to force DMA1 (default).