I bought a Sound Blaster Live! 1024 Value back in mid-2000 (model number CT4830) and I still have that card's installation CD. The disk contains the standard Creative software and drivers for Windows 95, 98, NT4 & 2000. The files were created on the disc on 12 April 2000, but the Windows 95/98 & …

Yikes, i had at least something like an external programmer in my mind. Unfortunately, i don´t own any programmer. So, i put it on my to do list . Thanks for figuring out the mainboard.

Hi guys, recently i have problems booting up the machine when plugging in/ detaching cards. The mainboard seems to refuse work when it comes to harddrive / floppy drive detection. In general it freezes after the "Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension message". From time to time i receive graphical …

it could very well mean that I got lucky with the drives and they did not reset their speeds on tray open/close which would be a bad option for titles with multiple CD´s...

Hi Joseph_Joestar, thanks for the link. I luckily had the teac_cdi.sys driver in my config.sys file. I added the /S:4 command. Now it boots up and is telling me: Spin Speed: Auto*4 When i change it to /S:1: Spin Speed: Fixed*1 But still, it behaves like CDBeQuiet. If no CD is inserted, it will …

CDBeQuiet is not working perfectly. It needs a CD-ROM inserted first, if not it won´t be active. At least from my experience. If I insert a different disc while it was mounted it behaves the same. I always have to reboot the system till the cd drive works properly then. my current autoexec.bat: ( …

Hello folks, greetings to the community first. This is my first post. My question would be, since i started some retro computing too. Does anybody know how to adjust the spin speed of the TEAC W552E CD-ROM drive via autoexec.bat ? It seems like MSCDEX on it´s own is not capable of ? Operation System …