When i try to run a game like half life and its mods my sound will all of a sudden be replace with a high pitch constant ehhhhhhhhhh noise. It is random so there is no pattern in when it does it. I am running windows xp, but this happened when i was running windows 98. Are there solutions???

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Just installed WIN XP and its totally not doing well with my SB LIVE. I t doenst run its applications, and once also hung up on me and did a memory dump. Are WIN XP drivers for the LIVE sound card out yet? If so then where may I get them? Thanks

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How about this one. I can't use anything but Win 98 First Edition, all the other ones, NT, ME, 98SE, crash as soon as I try to do anything that has sound.

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You know I have my Eax and LiveWare working with XP corporate!!!! No prob and I am running an asus a7a266 with alimagik. 512 Megs of DDR. you know I found problems in the IRQ settings that windows xp natively put up with the printer putting the printer on IRQ7. I changed the IRQ to another setting rather than to leave it on auto and boom!!! My computer didn't just suddenly quit and restart! It stayed on you know I was actually scared to touch any of the lIve ware stuff becuz it would suddenly just stop and restart try out your irqs! Now my B&W Matrix are happy! good luck I think this is sound advice and now ctlaucher doesn't bestow 100% of the proc's power. Cheers

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I got a SB live and in WinXP I could get no sound under certain games, Total Annihilation for one, maybe it just had problems with old games or dos appz, the sound was pretty good else where, but since I play this game all the time I couldn't stay with XP :(

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XP DRIVERS FOR SOUND BLASTER LIVE 5.1 LEAKED I found a site from Denmark that has the Windows XP Liveware and new drivers for Sound Blaster Live 5.1 today. Try this link http://www.newstown.dk/files/SB51.exe Good luck guys, it is huge though 64mb

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Got ya all beat. I've just recently installed XP Profesional on my system and although it picked everything up, I get NO sound at all! I'm using a SB Live! Value (kinda crappy till I upgrade) and it stuck in a driver. No sound though at all.

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Guess what i have the exact same problem, i have Sound Blaster LIVE, and Just recently formatted my computer to windowsXP and guess what i cant hear sqwat, please help, i know soundblaster.com is coming with drivers but i need sound A.S.A.P!!!!

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I dont get any sound either!! I upgraded from Win ME and I had sound at first. Then I tried to install my game contrller and poof! There went all my sound. I dont want to go back to ME but I may have to until Creative gets those new drivers. Oh yeah I have soundblaster live too.

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Same problam'O dudes Soundblaster Live Value and...well....NOTHING?...I found a driver that Gateway have put out and no luck either, you can it from here if you wanna try it out. http://www.gateway.com/support/product/drivers/sound/6001128a.shtml .. Good luck and let me know if anything works doodleserver@hotmail.com Doodles

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Installed XP before I got the Live! Value card. XP recognised it but have same problem of rebooting by itself. Finally decided to reinstall XP again. You know what, it can't even install the driver. Keep giving me the "invalid data" error!

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I have installed a sound blaster live 5.1 surround sound card and windows xp recognized it and it works. the only problem is that i cant get sound out of the rear speakers. any ideas?

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Can't get sound outa rear speakers ether but thats fine for now. when the XP drivers from SB come out they should allow you to use the rear speakers. you people should know by now that with every new OS release there are ALWAYS driver conflicts and problems expesioaly if you got XP before its even released hehe

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You can enable rear speakers in the control panel under multimedia. Click advanced on the speakers and select the type of speakers you have. Works for me on quadrophonic with cambridge fps 1000.

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I installed XP pro last week over the top of ME.It said that while my drivers will be updated by xp, my live ware wont work. Anyway My sound works most of the time but sometimes in Operation Flashpoint the sound goes to static and I have to alt tab to the desk top and back to make the sound work again. Oh and here's a good one. If I play MP3's with windows audio player I get sound from 4 speakers, But if I install Winamp it stops the back speakers from working. Strange. Anyway Creative should have drivers available in the next few day I hope. Apart from that XP Pro Rocks

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That was an excellent tip about using the advanced speaker option. That got my rear speakers working on my SB Live Value. Thanks SVIMPA!

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Well, there ARE those of us that offer help without a besserwisser attitude: Goto http://www.soundblaster.com/support/winxp/ I'm downloading right now so I can't tell you if it helped but I have no sound at all right now so it sure as hell can't get any worse. Good luck folks.

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ExUse me but, i downloaded every driver from soundblaster Live! and i was wondering exactly how to install it, like do u install soundblaster that doesnt work with XP and then the driver or do u JUST install driver? or do u install driver and then the cd?? because i have no sound at aLL

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Ok, I've been trying out quite a few things here with Windows XP since I got my hands on an OEM version. Now I have a few issues, though I havnt found solution to all of them yet. WINDOWS XP: I used Norton Ghost version 7.0 to backup the original copy of Windows XP so I could do a complete system restore within 5 mins, and be up and running as if I just installed win Xp from the start. Works great and very handy. SBLive 5.1: I've searched the Internet quite heavily and from what I found, Though Creative says Install your LIVEWARE 3.0 first then install the XP Drivers they have posted on their site. I get two errors: 1) I get a DEVDR error or something Like that I can't remember for sure, but also when shutting down the system, It will tell me its trying to end that program. I end up having to click on End to complete my shut down. 2) When ever I try to click on something on the Creative Bar at the top, it disappears and goes back to HIDE option right as I get ready to click on it. P.S. System would sometimes reboot on shutdown and not goto complete shutdown. SO MY ADVICE IS THIS: I ghosted my system back to original settings, as if I just installed XP, and installed only the CREATIVE DRIVERS that are offered on their site. My system is working fine. "Don't Bother installing Live Ware 3.0 or you'll have problems. I'm sure they will come out with something new for XP". I heard it will be called Creative Ware and no longer Live Ware. Keep your eyes open for it. CREATIVE DXR3: I've also did some research on this and found a few ways around it. Obviously Microsoft didnt offer the support for the DXR3 for DVD play back. Here's what you can do if you want to play DVD on your system. Hollywood Plus Drivers & DVD Player LINK: http://www.sigmadesigns.com/support/downloads.htm 1) Download the Hollywood Plus drivers which is the Same Identical card as the DXR3 Decoder card by Creative. You'll want to do this manually of course. There will be to ZIP files. Number 1 File is the Drivers. Goto your System Icon thru your control panel and then Hardware, then Device Manager. Double click on Hardware that applies to your DXR3 Card. Then click on Drivers, the Update drivers, and tell it that "You want to pick a driver" XP will not find it compatible for some reason. But if you do it manually it will work fine. Once you've done that. You can then Unzip number 2 File and Install the Application which will be the DVD Player. Then in the Diagnostics you can choose AC3 if you want to have your surround sound setup. Also make sure if you have surround sound speakers to access the Multimedia Icon and goto Advanced button on Speakers and setup the proper speakers, such as 5.1 for mine. NOTE: If you wish not to use this DVD Player, you can also use POWER DVD 3.0 or WINDVD 2.3 or 3.0 Trial is out now. They all worked for me. I hope this helps most of you out with maybe some issues until Creative brings out New Drivers and Software to update these bugs..... But people....remember...this is a new operating system, and we have to be patient while they get these drivers and software completed. There's been quite a few changes since the Beta Releases. BUT WINDOWS XP is probably the most stable Operating System that Windows has brought out to the Home User. Yeah I know Windows NT and 2000 were nice too...but this is the best home user system I've seen personally. BEST OF LUCK ! ACE

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G-Dog wrote: When i try to run a game like half life and its mods my sound will all of a sudden be replace with a high pitch constant ehhhhhhhhhh noise. It is random so there is no pattern in when it does it. I am running windows xp, but this happened when i was running windows 98. Are there solutions??? ---- Same problem here. I´m using WinXP with an Audigy card running the newest XP drivers.. This issue didnt apear with the old win2k drivers tho..so i guess its no hardware related problem. It´s really annoying becaus i play games with headphones on so its always like a punch in the face when this highpitched noise is played. Its just a very short loud "krchitz!" like sound and apears when i switch in and out of ie. halflife. Dunno if it has something to do with soundbuffer switches or whatever..so if anybody found a solution help would be greatly apreciated <:).

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After updating my abit bios to kt7_4a the noise is less annoying :> Going to play around a bit with pci timings etc now... hope it helps

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i used the latest driver update for soundblaster live value from the windows update web. it crashed twice so far. i was using the quadrophonic surround. goddamnit

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how the hell is this happening with one of the most popular sound cards? bogus

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well, i can't download the file http://download.soundblaster.com/software/winxp/SBLiveXPDrvUpdate.exe it's file not found. any ideas or other download resources? sebster

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Hi everyone- I have a SB Live 5.1, and I am running XP pro (build 2600 aka final). Everything was running perfectly until I upgraded to Microsoft's "update" for the SBL. Then, I lost my mixers. I uninstalled everything in safe mode, and then rebooted. It installed the default drivers, rebooted, nothing. I installed the new creative drivers, rebooted, nothing. The computer sees the card PERFECTLY, but it does not let me choose anything under the various tabs... like "default sound playback devices." It says "no playback devices." BUT, my computer sees the card, as well as the mixers, etc. I have tried other cards in my computer, and all of them produce the same result. Thanks!

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Anyone with a mobo that uses Via i suggest you get the latest 4 in 1 drivers - it seems Via has a MAJOR prob with creative - it could be this

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It seems as though everyone's having problems w/ their Sound Blaster Live card. I too am having problems. I got everything installed and Xp recognizes my card (which is always good). The problem is that I can't use the speakers program to configue my speakers. I can't get surround sound and only one of my four speakers even works (the others don't produce any sound. If anyone knows of how to get around this let me know. I already got the update from the Creative Labs site. What's next with Xp?

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I had same prob- check your IRQ's, I had a conflict with my LAN card. I installed a different LAN card, and now i get sound. I recently found a problem with my SCSI controller and my USB mouse. IRQ problem. Now i get stupid BSOD about IRQ not less than or equal. SB owners, check your LAN card if you have one, and try a different one if you can. Worked for me.

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Well, I decided to mess around with the sound card again and came across actual sound. Guess what, no sound from the rear speakers unless I go to the sound menu and put it on 5.1 (even though I only have 4 speakers). And then of course only 3 speakers work (my main right speaker w/ the control volume doesn't). And to top things off the sound has so much static during games w/ intense gunfire, lightning, etc. Any help?

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Hey Guys, I got a SBLive 5.1 Player, AthlonXP 1600 & Win Xp Final .. In some 3D Games the Game suddenly crashes and i get a "beeeeeeeee" sound - Anyone has a solution for that stupid crap ?! Thanks T

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yo dudes... i installed xp pro on my pc. i have a soundblaster live (not too sure of specifics) and it wont output to my speakers. headphones work if i plug them in to the sound card, but the speakers wont produce any sound. theyre nice speakers, boston. 2 satellites and a sub. this is a really peculiar problem. i mean, nice speakers, nice pc... they worked before xp. any ideas anyone? email me if you have any suggestions. thanks alot dudes. later

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oh Dear , SB live ... I have tied every trick in the book ( or suggestion on the net). Is the really a cure for SB live conflicts under any OS . i have tried my Sb live on two Mobo,s (different chipsets). And got them running fine. Only to be defeated by adding some other hardware or software , and back to square one. I have noticed that the Live is ok untill the fancy EAX is installed. So Come on Creative address the problem. or lose your customers. i am looking for a new sound system :-( real tired here. any suggestions

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Hey Guys..If you are still having problems maybe I can help you guys out.. At first I installed Windows XP and I have the Sound Blaster Live.. and NO sounds came out at all after installing the driver and so on.. If you have that problem my friends, I have a solution for you.. Go to control panel, then sounds..Click on Change the Speaker Settings.. Now on top, Click on the "Audio" Tab.. After doing so, set the DEFAULT SETTING to SB Live! Wave Device, ok? Now it should work :) and if you can't get all your four speakers working, you just have to pick the speakers you have under the "Volume" tab.. Well that's all folks.. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

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Well hot damn! I just tried something and I have sound again!! If you are running a via chipset,have NO conflicts, latest drivers, etc...try plugging the speaker line into the other 3 ports on the back of the sb live card.

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So it looks like a lot of people are having trouble werkin' their SB Live! cards under Windows XP. A lot of people seem to be having hardware conflicts. Why do I say this? Common case #1: Your computer crashes and your speakers are screaching the last processed sound. This means that your soundcard has run into a conflict with another piece of hardware. Usually, this is an IRQ conflict, or interrupt request conflict. A couple of ways to resolve this issue. (1) shuffle your PCI cards. Keeping your Video and Sound Card relatively "far" apart (as many slots between them as possible) is generally good to do. At least try to keep one or two slots between them. These slots can have cards in them, but keep your Vid and Sound cards at a distance. They might try to share IRQ 'cause of close PCI proximity. (2) Onboard sound is still "enabled". Simple solution: Go to your bios and disable it. Fool. (3) IRQ sharing with ACPI has gone terribly wrong (very common). A solution to this is to disable ACPI, but be VERY careful. Performance will change and windows settings should be changed too. -=DISCUSS THIS OPTION WITH CREATIVE TECHS BEFORE DOING IT=- Otherwise, look for the simple solutions like drivers, power, and ... PEBKAC's. LOL. ~Oscar Skidmoron@hotmail.com

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BTW, Creative HAS released drivers for SB Live! now, so you can DL them. Microsoft has a version of drivers too, but they blow goats. Go Creative! Now all they have to do is write drivers for the REST of their terrible hardware! ~Oscar Skidmoron@hotmail.com

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Creative Labs just lost all future business from this annoyed customer. Order and pay for a software bundle that came with my soundcard so I can keep my machine up to spec? Who.. what kinda morons.. ah screw it, the dumbasses. ( Tosses his Live!Crap out the window. )

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