Soundcard Problems In Windows 2000 Professional

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

Can anybody out there tell me if there is a fix for a problem with sound using Windows 2000 Professional. I have standard hardware configuration Intel Pentium II-800, 128 Meg memory, NVIDIA GeForce DDR Graphics Card (32 Meg), Creative Soundblaster Live Value Sound Card, etc, etc. My problem is I have loaded the operating system succesfully and within the properties section I get no conflicts, but when I go to play a sound nothing appears from the speakers. I have tested this eqipment with Windows 98 and have no problems so I know this is a configuration problem. I am unable to alter the device settings as the option is greyed out.

I am using the supplied Windows 2000 drivers that plug and play detected upon installation. Even if I load a music CD into the CD-Player it starts playing the CD and the computer will play the whole CD with no errors.

Anybody out there had a similar problem ?

Kind Regards,


Alan Turney

email 1 : alanturney@aol.com

 

[butchrecon]

Are you using a VIA chipsrt? Do you have a network card installed. If you say yes to both then try first reinstalling the sound drivers (Manufacturers drivers) if that does not work let us know

 

[CitrixEngineer]

What is the mobo?

If it uses a VIA chipset and AC97 on-board sound, you will need to disable it.

Creative's Liveware and drivers work fine with W2k/VIA/Creative. Get the latest ones from Creative's website.

Hope this helps

 

[ShaithisDanoveur]

#1: Make sure you're plugging the speaker into the right hole on the Value card. It's not in the same spot as it was on older SB cards.

#2: Check mixer settings and volume knobs.

#3: From Creative support: Turn off the PNP OS setting in the BIOS on your PC when using a Live product with Win2K.

 

[cbasstn]

I also have a problem with my SBLive under Win2k. The sound is extremely loud. I turned the volume of my speakers down to a minimum and also does it with the volume control of the the creative mixer but it's still very loud. I didn't had this problem under WinME or Win98 and I installed the newest recommended drivers for the SBLive under Win2k.
Does anyone have any ideas, what I could do ?
(it makes a lot of trouble, because I'm a musician)

thanks a lot for any ideas !

Sebastian [cbasstn]