SBLive! has stopped working - in W2K only!

[Rob G.]

Dual boot W98, W2K PIII 600E system, Asus Cubx.

Yesterday I decided to reinstall my W2K, but removed the SBLive! 1024 card first, so that the system wouldn't install it's default drivers. When W2K was up and running, I reinserted the card, rebooted, installed drivers and... nothing. The sound icon is in the system tray, audio files look like they're running OK in Media Player - but no sound. If I play an MP3 file through WinAmp the playback locks up after a couple of seconds - but I still don't get any sound.

If I boot into Windows 98, the sound is working perfectly.

I've tried everything I can think of - swapping PCI slots, flashing the bios, reinstalling again - but have had no luck. Any ideas?

 

[Rob G.]

...forgot to mention. If I reapply an image of my old W2K installation, I still get no sound. It's like the SBLive! card has just decided that it doesn't want to make a sound when W2K is running. Weird!

 

[Tiger]

On the re-boot Win2K should have found the "new device" and asked for drivers.
Try it again but this time go to device manager first and remove the device from the list, shutdown, pull the card, re-boot without the sound card, shutdown, re-install the card and re-boot.

 

[DeathByDuke]

try a different soundcard or borrow someone elses SBLive! 1024 and see if it works, if they do, then check card for damage like static or physical by trying it in another system... hope it isn't damaged though - if that happened to me when i remove a Graphics card i wouldn't forgive myself....

 

[bigjon]

Just a thought - are you using the digital 5.1 output? If so it has to be enabled through Liveware 😛