Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Installation Problems (FATAL EXCEPTION)

[Kawika]

Hey guys...

Wouldn't you know it...once I finally get the Radeon up & running properly...I try to install my Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 card...and then all hell breaks loose again. After installing the sound card...the machine reboots...but then I get a FATAL EXCEPTION 0E at 0028:C2A3F7E0 when it tries to get back into Windows. At this point, I can only access Windows through SAFE MODE. Anyone have any ideas on how to remedy this issue?

Thanks...

Kawika

[Kawika]

Got to Creative's Technical Support & we fixed the problem by moving the Sound Card from the 3rd PCI slot to the 2nd PCI slot & by changing the following options in the BIOS:

.PCI master read caching, default setting=Disabled
.PCI master time-out, Default setting=1

Setting above options to Disabled/3 will lead to the same result with VIA Latency patch V0.14 and may help SB Live 5.1 sound issue. If the system experiences low performance after these settings, enable the "PCI master read caching" please.

Hope this helps someone...

Kawika

[muckshifter]

Annoying little devils aren’t they ... hopefully Kawika, that is the end of your problems.

:D