SB Live X-Gamer 5.1 FUWOL

[Guest]

Hi Everyone!

Ok before we start, here is my setup

Asus A7v rev 1.02
AMD Athlon T Bird 950MHZ
ATi Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO
Linksys 10.100tx ethernet card
IBM Deskstar 20GB Hard Drive
Plextor 8x CD-rw drive
Creative 12x DVD Rom drive
Windows ME

Ok here's my dilemma. I've just built this computer and got it working and all. The problem is, when I try to install my SB live card, the install program crashes, and the system will not reboot, it gives me a blue screen right after the Windows ME splash screen. When I finally do get it to boot into safe mode, I uninstall everything, and let windows install the drivers through the Add new hardware wizard.

This works, but-

My computer becomes noticibly more buggy and error prone (especially when installing software for some odd reason, and every blue screen seems to really mess with my system, making it difficult to reboot properly) and on top of that, I can't use the 5.1 setup,(i have the cambridge sw 2200 5.1 speaks)

Can please offer some assistance?



Thanks In advance-

Pier Posthumus

 

[Guest]

I had to do a couple of things to get my SB Live to work.

First, I reserved IRQ 5 in the system BIOS - this will restrict the IRQ sharing drivers from grabbing it. I installed my machine with only the video board in. Then once I got into the OS, I upgraded the ATA100 driver and rebooted. Once I rebooted cleanly, and verified that everything was functioning, I shut the machine back down and installed the other cards- where you put them in IMPORTANT: AGP Video, Slot3-SB Live, Slot4-NIC. If you do not have an AGP card, use slot 1 for the video card.

When I powered back up, the OS found the cards- I cancelled the installation though. Then I loaded the VIA 4in1 drivers and rebooted. Once the machine came up, I point the plug-and-pray installation to the most recent SB and NIC drivers.

Once everything was installed, I noticed something else. The ATA100 controller was supposedly using DMA5 and so was the SB16 Emulator. I was getting intermittant lock-ups. So I disabled the SB16 Emulator (only used for DOS games). This did not seem to release that DMA channel though. I needed to modify the resource config and set it to Basic Configuration 0005. This one did not use DMA5.

Now the system seems to work normally.

Hope all that helps.

-bumble

 

[Bubba]

It sounds like you need to disable SB16 Emulation in the device manager.

 

[Guest]

strange, gg

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