posted 10-04- 02:01 AM               

Alternativly, with those sound cards, even PnP ones, Ive had probs with resource conflicts, even some that don't show up in the systems box. Normally it conflicts with the Parellel port of network card, so maybe try to disable those things, or assign some IRQ's to the ISA slot or something like that. I'm no expert, I just played with stuff until it went away, still don't know what fixed my problems.

posted 10-04- 09:18 AM               

Yeah i was going to say you have a new board and chip and vid card but your still using that old pci card>?

I would try it without overclocking and an SBlive.

posted 10-04- 03:32 PM               

OOPS i ment ISA, I'm thinking of getting an SBlive value this weekend if all goes right for me.

posted 10-04- 05:46 PM               

Just spent MANY hours trying to get this thing to work. A guy in the NGs mentioned that I rem out all SB info in my Autoexec.bat file. I did that and it worked... ONCE. I still have it going into Win98 and then it gives me the same error and crashes. I spent 2 hours on the phone today with the company I bought it from (800 number thank goodness) and we tried EVERYTHING. The only final thing he told me to do was wipe clean my 27 Gig HD and do a fresh install. I just spent 2 hours transferring important files to my small 6 gig HD and am about to take the plunge. Hopefully whatever is doing this will be fixed. If not, I'll flash my BIOS on my BH6 board (this new one is the BE6-II I got mostly since it's the latest, and has temperature monitors on it) and run my new CPU on it. Hopefully I won't have to though.

In all this trouble one positive thing is this, I'm cleaning out all the junk that has been sitting on my drives.

posted 10-04- 06:05 PM               

If you haven't already, I'd always recommend a fresh win9x install when changing MB.

Depends on who you talk to, but I'll usually install all hardware together, then fdisk, format and install OS. If your hardware doesn't get you through the installation, it's probably going to be flakey afterwards too, unless it's a driver issue.

If you run into problems during installation w/ everything, take it down to the bare minimum (only vid. card), install, then when stable, get one card at a time in there- w/ correct drivers!

posted 10-04- 10:29 PM               

If u want excellent wave-table music AND 3D positional audio, there is none better, IMHO - especially considering the prices.

posted 10-04- 10:48 PM               

Well, after a format and fresh install all is well now. SDOE is up and running and I'm still tweaking to see just how much I can get out of it now.

posted 10-05- 11:30 AM               

Hawkwind, do you know the differnce between the sound blaster live value, 256 and 512?

Pete I do know one thing, tail slide said after he upgraded to a live he found that his FPS didn't drop when he fired his guns.

I know mine does and it hiccups the first time i fire them in a mission so i want it just for that.

Also since that 3d position stuff is in hardware there should't be a performance hit.

But even if there was you coud turn it off.