When I installed my new SB live Value sound card my autoexec.bat was modified with the following: SET BLASTER =A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6 SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM However when I restart my computer, Win98 does not boot up. The starting logo appears and that's it. When I comment the "SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS" line (using REM), WIN 98 boots up. However when I reboot the machine again my autoexec.bat file gets changed (I don't know how) to the previous setting and I cannot login Win98 again. I don't know if the DOS emulation parameters are interfering with other parameters from my computer because when I can login (commenting that line) I assume that the DOS emulation is not running then (or something like that). Anyboby can help ??

Don't know what's causing the problem but... If you don't run Dos programs you can probably remark out all three lines. I suspect that it's SBEINIT.COM that is restoring the SETCTSYN line. You could try remarking out the SBEINIT.COM line also and see what happens.

Boot into safe mode by pressing f8 during the boot stage, then once in windows go to device manager and disable the dos emulation (prodiving you dont want sound in dos) This should fix your problem, i had the same Good Luck

Isn't Creative Labs clever? I never got a direct answer from them, but I suspect the code to update the AUTOEXEC lives in the hardware (honest, it's not loaded by software...) If you can boot into DOS (press F8 at startup) - there is a program in: x:\Program Files\SBLive\DOSDRV named SBESET... (there's also, a text file that explains the switches). Just run it with the -d1 parameter, this usually fixes the problem by turning off SB Emulation. If you need SB Emulation, you can also try changing the IRQ assignments (IRQ 7 works well on most machines).

The line is written for a driver (Ctsyn16.drv), that everytime that is loaded write the SET BLASTER.... lines To disable the emulation for windows, create a new configuration in Control Panel->System->Hardware Profiles, quit the SB16 Emulation inside Creative Miscellaneous Devices and reboot the box, and select the profile with the changes. Later, delete the old profile and you're Ok. To use the SB with DOS program, reboot in MS-DOS mode and start sbeinit.exe from the dosdrv folder. Read the .txt file to configure sbeconf.exe