SB live x-gamer and Tyan s1854 problems

[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

 

[KGB]

Ther are three things you need to do:

1. Disable SB emulation in Device Mangler. This will also free an IRQ.
2. Check for any IRQ sharing between your sound card, video card , etc. This can cause big problems.
3. If your NIC setting are for DHCP, this can add about 20-30 seconds to your boot time. If you can manually assign an IP address, do it.

 

[Tchen811]

yes the sound card and video is sharing the same irq. How do I change that?

 

[KGB]

If Windoze will not let you change the resources (what OS are you using?), you can either try the sound card in different slots or legacy the IRQs from your BIOS.
It is vital to get each on its own IRQ (sharing with PCI steering is okay but nothing else).

 

[KGB]

SH!T A DOUBLE POST!

There must be a first time for everything.

 

[birddog]

uninstall the sound card & all associated programs. Assign a free IRQ to the slot that has the sound card in (I usually take one of the serial port IRQ's for this). When you reinstall the sound card, do not do the automatic install -- do a coustom install. Under coustom install you will have a checklist of what extra's you want installed, do not install the SB 16 emmulation driver (you only need this for DOS applications). This should clear it up (I had the same problem on my P3V4X)

 

[Tchen811]

thanks for all the posts

 

[KGB]

You're welcome.

Did you get your problem solved?