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First post, by PiperTheGreat

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Hello all,

First time posting here, although have often perused this site for advice, but now I need to pick your brains, as I have no idea what to do

I am trying to install drivers for a Sound Blaster Live! on a Windows 98 machine I built. Had several issues along the way, but most seem to be fixed now, but I keep bumping up against the same one now.

Whenever I install the driver, it runs through its process of what I presume to be installing things and actually doing something useful behind the scenes, but after it tells me to restart and the system does, I boot up with absolutely no difference, it's like nothing has happened. All I get in device manager is Creative Multimedia interface.

I got the drivers from the Creative site, and also some drivers that claim to be "Web" drivers. These are even worse.... they claim that there isn't a relevant card installed......

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, system has been wiped and currently, there is nothing on there, I just want to get these working first

I know that the SB0220 is a Dell OEM variant, is it purely that, and is there NO way to get it working on a non Dell system? I hope I don't have to get a new card, had hoped to get this one working

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Steven

Reply 1 of 11, by gdjacobs

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The stock Live 5.1 drivers don't necessarily have the PCI IDs of the 0220 in the INF file. What OS do you need drivers for?

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Reply 2 of 11, by kolderman

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Via chipset motherboard?

Reply 4 of 11, by PiperTheGreat

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gdjacobs wrote on 2020-01-11, 05:56:

The stock Live 5.1 drivers don't necessarily have the PCI IDs of the 0220 in the INF file. What OS do you need drivers for?

Specifically, I need drivers for Windows 98SE. The Creative site suggested it had them, they’re the ones I tried

kolderman wrote on 2020-01-11, 06:04:

Via chipset motherboard?

Yes! How did you guess? Haha

elmeyer wrote on 2020-01-11, 08:13:

Ah, thank you. Let me get this straight…. The drivers on the creative site, are just a supplement to the original drivers that you MUST use, that came on a disc?

Reply 5 of 11, by elmeyer

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The drivers on Creative‘s site are only for retail cards, I believe. They are definitely newer, though. Due to the missing IDs for OEM cards I don’t believe you can use them for an upgrade, however...

Reply 6 of 11, by kolderman

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> Yes! How did you guess? Haha

Because they are mostly not compatible with the Live! and there is a good chance it won't work regardless of diver version.

I had the same problem, also with Audigy, need to bump up to Audigy2 to get a working build with that chipset.

Reply 7 of 11, by elmeyer

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Don’t get discouraged yet though. Generally, make sure you’re running the latest BIOS, if possible, and use the VIA chipset drivers, that are supposed to contain some fixes.

Reply 9 of 11, by SirNickity

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Now what to use for the CT4780.... another Dell misfit.

Reply 10 of 11, by Lazar81

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Hello ... Sry to bring that up again.
I tried to install a sb0220 in Windows XP. I tried different drivers mentioned here on vogons. I also tried to install with the original disc that came with the card... Nothing worked. It always tells me, that there is no soundblaster installed in my system.
When I take a look in the device manager it tells me that there are indeed devices of the card installed. But not the audio device.
Shall I just sell this card ... I don't want to... I really want to try it. But how... If drivers are not installing because Installation program can't find the card. Any help is appreciated...

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Reply 11 of 11, by Lazar81

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Hello...
I really found a way... 😀
Just in case someone is in search for working windows XP driver that don't drive you crazy - this is what you are searching for:
https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php … driverid=487162

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