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Sound blaster Live! Value card - no sound
Done the research, and unless I've missed something, there's a caveat that hasn't been addressed in this issue.
I have an SB Live! value card, have installed the Daniel_K driver for it, following the suggestions about deleting the existing RealTek (which didn't seem to work, though I didn't put *any* time into why that didn't work), and scrubbing the system with the recommended driver scrubber - can't remember the name but it was recommended in an earlier post.
I *record* with the SB Live! value card because of the low-noise, and rock-bottom price that these are now available for. On-board sound has terrible noise floor issues. They all do. I occasionally play games with the analog joystick, and attach to the midi port to back up my Roland VG-8 guitar fx box. The card is fully utilized in my system, so I don't want to switch to the on-board garbage.
So, back to the problem. The Daniel_K drivers installed well, BUT, though I see the VU meter in the system tray responding on playback (i.e,, it jumps around indicating that Windows is trying to send the signal to the card), I get no sound out of the speakers. I've tried headphones with no joy. I've also tried the KX drivers (nice effort btw, but no midi, or joystick drivers with the KX stuff), with the same result. No sound from the card.
No IRQ conflicts, no DMA issues, etc. I've tried it in the only other slot on the mobo.
BTW, mobo is new, and uses the AMD SB710 southbridge. Does that Southbridge just not pass sound, or? Card works on my dual-boot XP, so I know its good.
Suggestions? Anyone seen this particular wrinkle before?
Thanks in advance!