Try another OS.

Uh bro what other os I only got this and a Windows 11

Cursed Derp wrote on 2024-07-12, 13:49:

Heyyyyyyyyyo,
I just got a Sound Blaster Live! SB0060 card and I've tried various driver cds from online to get it working. As far as I know they've all failed. Everest home edition and device manager don't display the card. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

If it's not even detected as an unknown device in Device Manager, something is likely wrong with the card or the PCI slot. Drivers won't help and are not the issue if the card is not detected at all. Ideally, to rule an odd incompatibility, testing in different PCI slots or better, in another PC to see if the card is detected would be a good idea. The OS in the PC does not to be supported by any drivers for the card as the point is just to see if the card us detected, as all working PCI devices should be.

Maybe the card's edge connector could use some cleaning. Inspecting the card for visually apparent damage, scorch marks, missing components, etc might help pinpoint a cause.

Sounds good. I'll check for problems.

Cursed Derp wrote on 2024-07-12, 17:13:

Uh bro what other os I only got this and a Windows 11

this?

Ain't no pci slots in the Windows 11 pc. I cleaned the card's edge connectors up but they look damaged. I asked for a return on ebay but the seller said the card is in working condition. Could there be another cause for this? I'll see what the seller is saying

Basic info is welcome! System info & OS.

Also try cleaning the contacts on the card with rubber eraser.

It's a Dell Dimension L1000R running Windows 98 SE. I'll try the eraser.

What sound card were you using before? Was it working? Have you done a recent installation of Windows?

My install is from months of system changes and game installs ago. My old sound card was a Sound Blaster PCI 128. Pretty crappy. I don't want to do a reinstall of Windows but if it comes to that I'll see how many save games I can salvage 😀

We used an eraser and the card started working. It shows up in device manager under sound controllers as two devices. Some weird jank is going on though and reinstalling the drivers off the cd from internet archive hasn't done anything.

Is there any way to make this work?

Cursed Derp wrote on 2024-07-13, 13:47:

Is there any way to make this work?

Take empty hdd.
Download live! driver CD from this site.
http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2168
Install Win98, then sound according to the linked instructions.

Does it work?
If so, then your answer is "Yes!"

I got the card detected after getting it just right in the pci slot. There was a code 12 driver conflict though. After uninstalling some drivers and the network card the sound blaster was detected correctly without any i/o errors. The pc's performance dropped hella though. When I restarted, the lag was gone but so was the sound card in device manager. Either there's a base level driver conflict or the sound card is damaged. I'll try your advice