Darebear

Success!! I got my SB Live! to work under Windows 2000 on my brother's computer. Here's what I had to do. (This may or may not work for you. I'll assume you guys have a clue and I don't have to go into step-by-step detail here. I'll just talk concepts.) The original problem was that Win2k didn't identify the sound card as an SB Live! after running the normal LiveWare installer that comes with the card. (or from Creative Labs' web site) I went into the Device Manager, and brought up the wizard to reinstall the sound card's driver. I told it to use the NT4 driver on the SB Live!'s CD, found here: [CD drive letter]:\AUDIO\ENGLISH\NT4DRV\OEMSETUP.INF. Win2k told me the driver wasn't signed, wasn't written specifically for my hardware, yadda yadda. Yes to everything. Now that that was done, I knew the NT4 driver wouldn't work, but at least Win2k was now identifying the card as an SB Live!. Now, I could use the wizard again to update the drivers. I pointed the wizard here: C:\Program Files\Creative\Program\upddrv2k.inf. (This was put on my hard drive by the LiveWare installer that I ran before.) Bingo, it updated the drivers to the Win2k versions. Just to be sure I got everything, I ran the LiveWare installer again. It didn't have any trouble this time. I hope this helps out. Post to this forum and let me know if it works. [This message has been edited by Darebear (edited 09 January 2001).]

DaveInVA, I'm working on my brother's computer, which has a configuration a bit similar to yours. Asus A7V + Duron 600 Creative Labs SB Live! 64MB Voodoo Rush D-Link 10/100 20GB IDE HD Generic IDE CD-ROM I can't get the SB Live! to work under Windows 2000 to save my life, and I'm going nuts trying to figure out why. The SB Live! works fine under Windows 98, and it even works under QNX. I have an SB Live! + Windows 2000 on my computer and it works great. My Computer: Abit BH6 + Slot1-to-S370 + Celeron 600 Creative Labs SB Live! 192 MB Matrox Millennium another Matrox Millennium Adaptec U2W SCSI 1GB SCSI HD 4GB IDE HD 30GB IDE HD Yamaha 2484EZ IDE CD burner Zoom 56K internal faxmodem 3Com 10/100 So anyway, back to my brother's computer. Win2000 detects the SB Live! card but doesn't recognize what it is. I installed the drivers from the SB Live! CD, and also the drivers from Creative Labs' website, using the regular installer that they give you. Absolutely no effect. I tried to install the drivers manually through the Device Manager, but Win2000 doesn't think the SB Live!'s .inf files apply to the SB Live!, and won't accept them. I've checked IRQ's, I've moved the card to different slots, and nothing seems to help. I'm starting to think there might be an issue with SB Live! + Windows 2000 + VIA chipset.