Okay, I've been looking through the posts concerning Win2k and SB Live!, but, I can't find any pertaining to a the problem I'm having. Anyway, I've had my SB Live! Value since the summer of '99, it's always worked perfectly. Yesterday, I dropped in a new mobo and CPU. So, now I'm running on a Thunderbird 1.2GHz with an ECS K7VZA board, 512 PC-133 RAM, SB Live! Value, TNT2 Ultra, Netgear FA310TX and I nuked my hard drive and loaded Win2k Professional.
Everything went rather well, I loaded in all the Win2k drivers for my hardware. Then I noticed that the SB Live! wasn't recognizing, turns out it wasn't seated correctly. Fixed that, booted-up and the sound card got picked-up by Win2k. It installed the MS drivers for it, and in the middle of that, my front two speakers started hissing. I thought it would just be fixed in the reboot, so, after that I installed the Win2k drivers from Creative and Live!Ware3.0 and then rebooted. Same hissing sound.
It's very odd. No sounds play, and the hissing comes only from the front two speakers, not the rears. Occasionally the hissing will get louder. I tried removing the card from device manager and uninstalling the software. Rebooted, cancelled the Win2k PnP install and just went straight for the Creative drivers. In the middle of that install, the hissing returned. Jumped into the BIOS, made sure the on-board audio chip was disabled, tried that memory hole thing, nothing worked. There are five devices on IRQ 7, being the SB Live!, TNT2, NIC and two USB host controllers, but, I don't think that's responsible. Tried playing with the volume and everything like I've seen suggested. No effect, I can have the master volume down to 0 and the hissing will continue. I had my speaker volume turned-up to not even a quarter "strength", so, I'm pretty sure it's not a "speakers being too loud" problem - especially since no sound will play anyway.
So, here I am. It's still hissing, and I'm fresh out of ideas. I'm almost to the point of *gasp* taking it into a shop and seeing if they can help. If anyone has any insights at all, I'd be GREATLY appreciative. Thanks for reading this rather long sob story!!
