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Thread ID: 37427 2003-09-07 03:28:00 SB Live! 5.1 and Win98 wintertide (1306) Press F1
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173527 2003-09-07 03:28:00 I recently bought a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 and installed it in my system. The card works without a problem in Red Hat 8 and Windows XP. However, when I went to install it in Windows 98 SE, my system threw a fit.

As soon as I booted into Windows 98, Norton Antivirus blue screened with a message about running low on system memory (impossible because I have 512MB of DDR266 and only 64 was being used by Windows 98). I install the drivers for the card, reboot, and the video drivers are corrupted. I reinstall them, reboot, and get a message about system.ini missing. I restore that from the sysbckup directory and restart. I then get a message about the Norton Antivirus (again) and I constantly get blue screens about VDD.VXD and the Creative drivers.

Can someone help me with this? I thought that they had ironed out all the bugs with the SB Live! cards, but obviously not.

Thanks,
Wintertide

PS. I'm running a Gigabyte GA7-VAX1394 board with F2 BIOS and a GeForce FX 5600, if that can help solve my problem.
wintertide (1306)
173528 2003-09-07 03:47:00 odds are you have SB16 emulation installed. tick "allow lpt interupt" or diable the SB16 emulation. after that go check DMA is enabled for the hardrive/cd drives. tweak'e (174)
173529 2003-09-07 03:55:00 OK, will check that once I've finished fiddling around in Red Hat 8 and HOPEFULLY it will work... :) wintertide (1306)
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