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Soyo Dragon+ and SBLive Problems

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hpfanatic

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OK, first off this is my first AMD setup, stuck with Intel up to now. I got the Dragon+ and XP1800+. First thing, I wasn't impressed with the onboard sound, there is no way to apply mixer or equalizer settings to the line in. So I disabled the sound and installed my Soundblaster Live 5.1 in Slot 4 of the MB. I started up and the card was found, Win XP drivers loaded and the card worked somewhat. Only 2 speakers. I tried installing the older Creative drivers and programs which always worked perfect under WinXP and Intel. Right off it says the uninstaller couldn't load, so it would not be able to uninstall the Audio HQ. I click ok, and it pops up that I don't have enough free space on C drive. (I have 4gb free). It won't let me continue with that, so I have to quit install of Audio HQ. Then the drivers install and it has me restart. I do and the card works the same as before. No Audio HQ, No Mixer, etc.. I tried going into Safe Mode, but it installs the exact same way, or it will not see the card at all. I have tried this many many times and just cannot get it to install right at all. Contacted Creative by e-mail and they were no help, told me to try Slot 4 or 5, (also tried 2 and 3) which I already have it installed in. Is there some secret way to install this with the Via chipset? What else would be causing this???
 
it doesnt sound like its related to via chipset...

couple ideas:
do you have the onboard sound totally disabled in bios?
did you uninstall the old sound drivers (sounds like a driver problem)
 
try uninstalling all the different version of the sblive (everytime u put the card in a new slot, winxp recognizes as a different card since it is at a different location.) you will probably have to go to uninstall hardware and show hidden devices... it is kinda tedious to do that to all of them, but that should help.

then you should uninstall all of the old drivers and delete all the old files (you know how if you try to update w/ the same drivers, windows will tell you it already has the best drivers installed... usually oem1, oem2, etc...) you may even have to do a manual search.
 
No hidden devices, uninstalled and deleted everything in Safe Mode, deleted everything in the Temp folders, still no go.
 
The problem is not with the motherboard, but rather with XP, and your live card. Got to creatives website I had this same problem, and d/l the patch for XP.
 
I decided to reformat and reinstall XP. First thing I installed was Liveware and it installed fine. Must have been some other program or driver causing the problem.
 
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