Problems with Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1

[Stefan Berger 0]

I've formatted my HDs and I'm going to use Win2k. Now I've installed Win2k the 5th time and always when I install the Driver for my Soundcard I get the following boot error and Win2k is only usable in Recovery Mode:

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT

 

What's wrong with that f.... driver !!!

Where do I get a new one (if Creative has developed one ;-))?

 

Stefan Berger

[Stefan Berger 0]

I totally forgot my configuration:

 

AMD T-bird 1Ghz

ASUS A7V with BIOS 1005c

and Promise ATA100 used

128 MB-RAM Infineon

ASUS V7100 Geforce2 MX 32MB Pure

Creative Soundblaster Live! Platinum 5.1

ASUS 50x CDROM

HP CDRW 9350i

...

 

Win2k

Promise Win2000 ATA100 1.26 (Build 33)

4in1 4.28v

Detonator 3 b672

 

NO DRIVER FOR MY SOUNDCARD INSTALLED !!!!!!

[Wolf87 0]

Just two ideas: move the sound card to slot three on the motherboard, if it has an Irq.

Slot one is shared with AGP and slot two may be shared with an ATA controller.

 

Try not to use the CD-Rom and CD-RW as master and slave.

[Stefan Berger 0]

Thanks for the Ideas.

Every Card has its own IRQ. I've the IRQs configured as shown:

 

Serial bus controller 9

Serial bus controller 9

Multimedia Device 9

Network Controller 5

Display Controller 11

Mass Storage Controller 10

 

I've the HD's on the Promise and the CD-Rom on the Primary Master and the CDRW on the Secondary Master.

 

Stefan Berger

[ThC 129 0]

you have the latest BIOS right i read something to the effect that the promise controller was having IRQ problems with one of the PCI slots.

[Stefan Berger 0]

I heard it too. But in my case this isn't possible because the Promise shares with the 2nd PCI slot and that slot is free !!

It must be a driver problem.

[Wolf87 0]

If your modem is wave enabled it should be removed from the motherboard while you install the SoundBlaster software. Choose sound devices in Multimedia panel before putting back the modem because Windows OS often fail to distinguish between Modem and Sound Card.

[Tikra 0]

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wolf87:
If your modem is wave enabled it should be removed from the motherboard while you install the SoundBlaster software. Choose sound devices in Multimedia panel before putting back the modem because Windows OS often fail to distinguish between Modem and Sound Card. </font>

Is this maybe the same Problem as with my SB Live! and a PCI modem card???? - Do I have to uninstall the pci-modem too????

[Stefan Berger 0]

Sorry, I've no modem installed. I've DSL :-))

 

But I've solved my problem (I hope so)!!

I just downloaded the new Live Ware 3.0 and installed it. Then I re-installed the origninal software pack but before I added the original Win2k driver on the Creative CD-ROM. I don't know wether it was the new Live Ware or the manually added driver from the CD. Perhaps the Installation always installed the wrong driver.

 

Greetings

Stefan Berger

[Brian Frank 0]

Unless youve got the latest BIOS update for the A7V, PCI slot 2 shares an IRQ with the Promise ATA100 controller. There are only two things you can do: update the BIOS or leave PCI slot 2 open. Also try disabling the serial and printer ports if your not using them.

Also, this got me out of a fix, go into BIOS and set it to the defaults on the exit menu.

Wurked for me.

 

 

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Samsung 48x CD-ROM

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Voodoo 4 4500 AGP @176 MHz

Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo

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D-Link DFE-530 10/100 NIC

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