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I am using a CT4760 SBLive! card. I think it's a "gamer" model SBLive! card. For the installation, I am using the CD .ISO file found on Malik's Creative drivers thread, here. The specific piece of software from that thread is this one:
(Not clickable, the actual link to the software is here)
Rather than burn this .ISO file on to a CD-R, I simply unpacked this .ISO file, and copied the full unzipped contents over to my CF drive. The installation appears to work, up to this point: After a lot of files have been copied over during the installation process (to a fresh installed W98SE CF drive), W98SE "sees" the SBLive! card, and then asks me to find the driver folder for it. That's a bit weird, Creative. Why can't you do that yourself, as part of your installation routine?
So, I manually browse to a suitable looking sub folder, and point the installation routine at the "Creative...Windows 9x driver" sub folder, but the installer says that it isn't interested in this folder. So, I then point the installation routine at a WDM driver sub folder instead. The Creative installation routine is happy now.
A bit later, 2 message boxes pop up warning me that ksuser.dll and Stream.sys are older than the ones found on my W98SE installation CF drive, and so I choose not to copy them from the Creative installation folders to my CF drive.
The installation then hangs at this stage:
I am able to press the Windows "start" key, I then shut down the PC. If I reboot it, I look at the Control Panel resources area, and I find this:
Generally speaking, the card does work OK, because I installed a different software package for it: the Live!Ware 3.0 package. That works fine. I wonder why the first installation detailed above does not work? My system is: i440BX mobo, P3 CPU, SBLive! is in PCI slot #2. I have no "I/O attachment" to the SBLive! card, and the SBLive! card just says Live! on it, not "Live! 5.1". I wonder if I'm using the wrong installation CD? Any ideas please people? Thanks a lot for any advice!
Edit: In the root of the CD .ISO file mentioned above, there is a DISK.ID file, and its contents are:
Card WDM (5.12.01.3213) VX.D (4.12.01.0905) NT (4.03.00.2907) 4830 38133 N/A N/A 4832 38117 N/A N/A 4870 38169 N/A […]
Card WDM (5.12.01.3213) VX.D (4.12.01.0905) NT (4.03.00.2907)
4830 38133 N/A N/A
4832 38117 N/A N/A
4870 38169 N/A N/A
SB0060 38162 N/A N/A
The bold codes are CT model numbers. My CT4760 X-Gamer model is not listed. I wonder if this CD is not for the X-Gamer?