Liveware 2000 crash !!

[bizou 0]

I encountered a strange problem since i installed Liveware for w2000, indeed the install is running correctly but when i reboot to valid changes, the system crashes and reboot just after the log box !

 

Do someone has a solution (I tried to uninstall the sblive driver and reinstall it without success)

 

Thanks

 

PS: i installed sblive2000 beta drivers before and it didn't work, but i uninstall after!

Since this install, my tvcard cannot run anymore also.....

[rbarbier 0]

Check your email. I sent you a "cleanup" utility. Follow it EXACTLY. DON'T skip ANY steps. This should help.

[raider 0]

I've got the same problem. Every time I start my system after I installed the liveware for win2k (incl. drivers) it reboots before the log box is appearing. The only solution was to start in safe mode and to install the old drivers...

 

rbarbier: May you send me this 'cleanup' utility too? thanks in advance

 

Any other ideas why it isn't working?

 

rr

[rbarbier 0]

raider-

 

Check your email. Make sure to completly uninstall everything you had previously installed with the Soundblaster live. And then try moving the card to another PCI slot just to make sure. Then when you are sure everything is "cleaned up" install the default drivers then the RELEASED drivers only.

[raider 0]

thanks for the fast reply.

I followed the instructions written in the readme step by step, but it still doesn't work... still every time a reboot

 

I think I need some new bugfixed drivers from creative and unfortunately not any workaround...

 

rr

[rbarbier 0]

Try deleting devldr32 and devcon32.dll. This should let you boot into Windows with the drivers. Then uninstall and reinstall. This helped me the first time. In your Winnt\system32. If you can't delete them then just rename them.

[raider 0]

well after I deleted these two files I could boot finally my system. Then I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled but after the needed reboot it's the same situation again .. every time the system reboots ...

 

rr

 

[This message has been edited by raider (edited 02 April 2000).]

[ChrisX420 0]

I don´t have that exactly probs, but I have a different one. CTLauncher won´t start. So I always have to quit it with the Task Manager. Then the system runs again.

[raider 0]

Finally! LiveWare 2000 is working now!

Solution: I checked if the 'cleanup' batch deletes every file in its list. And yes, the cleanup batch couldn't delete one file, it was 'ctmm32.dll' in the directory: 'WINNT\system32\' .

After I deleted the file under win98 the win2k driver was working correctly and I installed the whole liveware 2000 package.

No more reboots before the "Windows is starting up" window appears!

Everthing works fine now...

 

Thanks goes to rbarbier

 

cya

rr

[rbarbier 0]

Glad I could help. That is what I am here for.

[Brain Stew 0]

clean install.

[Svengali 0]

Would someone be kind enough to send me the required info for sbLive! cleanup ? - I've trawled thru the main website but I can't find it.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

(email otfletcher@bigfoot.com)

[bizou 0]

raider & rbarbier !

Sorry for not being present in the dialog (i was trying rbarbier and creative solution). At the moment, nothing work.... But i've still ctmm32.dll and sfman32.dll in my winnt\system32 directory, but i can't find the way to delete it : i use ntfs and neither my w98 nor linux can see it. And the safe mode refuse to delete it also.

What can i do ????

Please help, i'm fed up with this !!

[raider 0]

I uploaded the cleanup batch file including the readme to: http://www.geocities.com/gigalamer/sblive_cleanup.zip

 

rr

 

PS ! the file is there but you have to add the link directly to a downloadmanager

like gozilla or getright !

PPS it's not a zip archiv it's rar packed

 

 

 

 

[This message has been edited by raider (edited 04 April 2000).]

[Jabba 0]

Note to all:

 

If the cleanup utility you are using is named cleanup.bat and not cleanup.cmd, then it is likely my modification of the original util that I distributed. The batch file won't work within win2k because of access restrictions. You must boot from a floppy or from another OS and run the batch file. Everything should work then.

[bizou 0]

Finally, i had the same problem as raider, it was the file ctmm32.dll which was causing trouble, i succeedeed in deleting it on a friend win2000 computer

 

Thanks again raider and rbarbier

[Mr.Sneis 0]

Ahhh....The evil, that is Liveware, has returned. The best, and least time consuming solution is to reinstall Win2k, I don't mean format and reinstall, simply reinstall and choose the "upgrade" method. After everything is reinstall, install liveware, I have not heard any horror stories of having to reinstall win2k, but this is how I and a few others fixed this problem.... PS , delete all that you can of the old drivers before reinstalling win2k, not sure if it helps, but it's what I did, delete registry files, there are 2 of them , named "Creative Tech",also, delete "C:/program files/creative" folder, and any suspicious dll's that start with "CT", if you want right click and view properties to make sure it is a creative file that you are deleting)

[Svengali 0]

I've tried to go to the link you have posted, but it seems either geocities is down, or your page is. - Is there anywhere else I can get it?

 

Thanks again

 

Sven

[ACID 0]

attention

this problem has been solved for months now

put your win2k cd in the drive and boot off it

this will give you a recovery mode that overides win2k's anti delete thing

it uses the dos prompt and works with ntfs

just delete the two files and ctmm32 and devcon32 in system32 and reinstall the drivers