Hi all. I know this is the same question I asked before but I thought I would ask again with a little more info so it will catch someones eye that can hopefuly help me with this mind boggler :|. I have a Sound Blaster Live! Soundcard that I bought of the web a couple of weeks ago. It came without a driver and Ive been trying my hardest to find a "good" driver that would actually work. I tried creativelabs to find it and when I installed it, it asked me where a couple of files were, then it deactiveated my USB mouse for some odd reason and I had to find the driver to that too. Now everything seems to be working fine after this.. but when I reboot, the pc hangs.. It doesnt get passed the last stage till you see your desktop. It just sits there... I've tried diffrent drivers all over the web too. From ones that I found on driver detective to some from another site that I cant remember the name of.. Nothing is working.. Is it somthing in the system files thats causeing this? Would my old sound card be causeing this problem? Or what? Any help would be great. Thanks (crosses fingers) Got Geek?

I just got one off the web (ebay) too. And like yours, no drivers. But there are two availible drivers for that. I had to use both. One driver is about 5.6mbs big and the other is around 23mbs big. The 23mb one is ONLY for WinXP. The other driver is for the older operating systems. So maybe you have the wrong one installed. I can't even remember where I got mine now. I just did a search under Google. I know driver.com did not have the right one. When at first you don't succeed... Ask at Computing.net... They always have the answers...

What's the model number on the SB Live! card? ie; CT-4760 (example only)

Sorry I should have put the model number to begin with. It's model CT4830 I'm told its a soundblaster live! Value and I look for the drivers on that.. yet still the problem accors... ask anything else if you must Got Geek?

You are, apparently, NOT ALONE!!! Read this article http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/sblive/live_ct4830.shtml It makes mention lower down of the "Live!Ware 3.0" file/driver being necessary: http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/drivers/Live/Win9x.html Read the first bit, where it tells you where the download is still available. Let us know how you got on!!

Win 95 & 98 Drivers; http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/131/131403.htm http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/85/85697.htm http://www.powerspec.com/support/drivers/8210_snd_57.html Win 2K & XP Drivers; http://drivers.soft32.com/driver/download-Creative_Sound_Blaster_Live_CT4830_-22637.html Some info; From; http://www.nuws.net/hardware/reviews/example_review/index.shtml The CT4830 has plastic sockets as opposed to the gold plated, metal ones found on their Sound Blaster Live 1024 retail cousins. It also lacks the digital connection to CD-ROM drives. Overall first impressions, promising. Inclusions Creative EMU10K1 digital signal processor CD-ROM driver disk (includes Liveware 2) Analogue internal CD-ROM connection cable 1024 software voices (64 hardware) EAX (Environmental Audio Extensions) Click for diagram Compatibility & Ease of use The card installed easily into our test machine. Simply slot the card into a free PCI slot, ignore Windows auto detection, and launch the installer from the supplied CD-ROM. The manual, which is on the CD-ROM is concise, gives step-by-step guides and a solid grounding in the cards capabilities. Unfortunately, the software isn't current and only accommodates Windows9x/NT4. All updates combined amount to an enormous 60Mb or more (35Mb for Liveware), which is a wee bit daunting for users of analogue modems. This takes about five hours to download. It is worth noting that the Creatives EMU10K1 sound chip incorporates entirely different technology from that used by previous models. Most notably, making it non-Sound Blaster compatible. Software emulation is installed as part of the drivers though thankfully, rarely required. And from; http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/sblive/live_ct4830.shtml What the heck - may as well fire the puppy up. I cracked open the case and inserted the CT4830 in my upgraded server and went on to install my Value's original Live!Ware/EAX 1.0 drivers. To my absolute horror, the Live! Value's drivers would not install on the CT4830 card! Out of sheer panic, I tried over and over again, in different ways - not once could I get this card to acept drivers nor play any sounds. I skipped off to the sblive.com website and searched for any references or drivers for the CT4830. None. Zilch. Before my anxiety attack could take root, I checked-out the Internet newsgroups and stumbled upon 'creative.products.sound_blaster.live'. There were over 4500 messages, but after a few minutes, it became quite apparent that I wasn't the only one with this CT4830 and missing drivers. It seems as though several retailers are purchasing bulk-packs of this European and Asian market-only OEM card and selling them off without drivers to poor sods like me. A message from a Creative Labs support technician on the newsgroup stated that this is frowned upon by Creative and that they will not provide end-users with drivers for the CT4830 on their site - ever. Unlucky buyers should contact their retailer and demand drivers, or return the product under the guise that it is incomplete. ---------------------- Pride Unsatisfied with this issue and too proud to return this 'enhanced' Live! Card, I kept it and tried my utmost best to get the card to work. I read on the newsgroup that installing the unreleased Live!Ware 3.0 driver set on the CT4830 will work, but at the time the public download of Live!Ware 3.0 wasn't out. I called Creative and was placed on hold for an eternity before I hung up. A support e-mail to Creative about the CT4830 drivers was never replied to or returned. After over 3 hours of frustration and dozens of reboots, I managed to get the drivers to load and sound to work on the CT4830. ---------------------- The 4830 Driver Trick The trick is to erase all traces of the driver and device manager parts without a reboot. Then I re-downloaded and launched Live!Ware 2.0. Before it had time to cancel the driver install (as it can't find a compatible card) and delete its temp files (because LW2 INF doesn't have support for the CT4830), I went to C:\Windows\Temp and copied the temp install dir to another location on my hard disk (You should try this on a P3-550 with ATA-66 hard drives and controllers - seconds after launching the installer, the temp file gets deleted)! Inside this folder was a Win98 directory with the *.inf and *.vxd driver parts. I then installed the driver by pointing to this *.inf file, and pointed it to a Mapped Network drive of my gaming PC (with Live!Ware 2.1) when it asked for missing pieces. Directing the install wizard to files in my C:\Windows\System across my home network did the trick. A reboot later, and the sound worked fine! None of the Creative Miscellaneous Devices came up in the Device Manager, but the card did work in the OS and in Games without a crash. This tied me over for some time, but I eventually fixed the problem for good - the public download of Live!Ware 3.0 came out about three weeks later and installed without a hitch. Talk about 'unified drivers'. ---------------------- The Yellow Jack Now, as to the fifth and yellow connector on the back-plane of the CT4830, it is labelled as 'Digital Out'. Upon closer inspection, it's a 4-post jack, versus the standard 2-post of stereo mini-headphone jacks. I've never seen a 4-post 1/8" plug or adapter before - I smell the stench of a proprietary connector. Upon further newsgroup research, I came across a post from someone that claims that you can call Creative customer service (at 1-800-998-1000) and get a Digital DIN to Mini-8 gender-bender cable shipped to you, but provided that you can supply them with serial numbers from both your sond card and your creative speaker system. The big catch is that if you buy Creative's FPS 2000 Surround or DTT2500 Dolby Digital speaker system, it requires this special cable to interface with the 4-post Digital S/PDIF jack. Likewise, if you want to take the Digital-out signal and pump it through your Dolby Pro Logic or AC-3 receiver, you'll need this extra cable - at the very least.

The Soundblaster Live card I got (actually the second one I purchased), is a black faced card and has a little gold emblem on the corner that says: Live! on it. I don't know the model # as it is in my son's pc and I can't get in it right now. But after I put those drivers I stated in (both sets/one for each O/S) it works fine now. When at first you don't succeed... Ask at Computing.net... They always have the answers...