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First post, by w0lf42

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Everything seems to be working great with one exception -- I don't have any sound out of my sound card. The only flag in my Device Manager is the "Standard PS/2 Port Mouse". I am using USB for both my keyboard and mouse with no, noticeable, issues.

If I open the Play Control (speaker icon in the system tray), I can see the volume levels go up and down next to the Play Control volume adjustment while sound is being played. I've played MIDI and WAV. I've tested 2 working headphones, 1 working power analog speaker, and 1 working digital (via SPDIF). I've tested the card in two different PCI slots.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hardware

  • Motherboard ASUS CUV4X-E
    CPU INTEL Pentium III 1GHz
    Memory Micron PC133 PC133 CL3 2 x 256MB
    Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB
    Sound Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (CT4780)
    Hard Drive Quantum Fireball Plus IDE (LM30A011-01-A) 30GB

Software
This is what I have installed in the order that I installed it.

  1. Windows 98 SE (4.10.2222 A)
  2. USB Mass Storage Device Drivers
  3. DirectX 9.0c
  4. Sound Blaster (Live! Series) Drivers
  5. ASUS CUV4x-E C-Media CMI8738/C3DX Audio Driver V2.88B
  6. VIA 4-in-1 4.24
  7. nVidia 71.84 Win9x
  8. Asus CUV4X-E (without Audio) Beta BIOS 1005.005
Last edited by w0lf42 on 2019-01-28, 07:22. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 3, by dr_st

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Since you see volume levels go up and down, this suggests that software is working, while hardware does not. The card may be defective; are you sure you are plugging your gear into the correct output jack? The other thing could be a hardware mute on the card, but I am not aware of SBLive! having such a feature.

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Reply 2 of 3, by chinny22

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Double check that the c-Media isn't the primary playback device is set in control panel/sound.
I've been tricked by the onboard sound more then once!

Reply 3 of 3, by w0lf42

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Three sound cards later and things are working. I'm rocking a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (SB0060).