First post, by Namrok
Title says it all really. I have two pins on my Sound Blaster Live! CT470 labeled PC SPK. I fashioned a dupont connector cable to carry pin 1 and 4 from the PC Speaker pins on my PC Partner MVP3 motherboard, labeled SPEAK and VCC, to the SBLive pins. The Livewire 3.0 CD's helpfile says connect VCC to Pin 1, and SPEAK to Pin 2. I believe I've done this. Even used a multimeter to make sure I didn't screw up fashioning the cable, and both wires appear to offer a continuous connection from one end to the other.
And yet I get no PC Speaker audio. In fact, the mixer bar for the PC Speaker is just greyed out and disabled in Windows mixer, and the Creative mixer sporadically recognizes that it appears to be totally disabled, although sometimes it pretends to let me mute/unmute it and adjust it's volume, before it re-asserts that it is in fact totally disabled.
I'm using Win98SE with the unofficial SP3. Only the core updates and the optimizations feature. I'm also using the Livewire 3.0 CD from the Vogon's Driver Library.
Any ideas? A registry setting? A hardware config setting I haven't found? Different drivers? Does the CT4780 just straight up not support that, despite having pins? I went through a ton of different drivers on this PC. Should I just go with a fresh install? Looking for any advice you may have.
Win95/DOS 7.1 - P233 MMX (@2.5 x 100 FSB), Diamond Viper V330 AGP, SB16 CT2800
Win98 - K6-2+ 500, GF2 MX, SB AWE 64 CT4500, SBLive CT4780
Win98 - Pentium III 1000, GF2 GTS, SBLive CT4760
WinXP - Athlon 64 3200+, GF 7800 GS, Audigy 2 ZS