Help me with my Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 .

Somebody?
It's quite annoying . . . Everytime I shutdown or restart my PC, the Subwoofer would generate a hum that last through the shutdown and restart process. I have updated the drivers already, gone through the knowledge base section but to no avail.
Another problem is that it often hangs when I am playing Generals, the system will just hang and gives out a continous tones over the speakers.
My PC is powered by Intel Decktop Board D865PERL, Pentium 4 3E Processor, GB Memory. The Sound system is in 5. configurations.
I have also acquired the latest updates from Intel for my BIOS.
Thank you in advance.

WildSwan,
Try doing a cleansweep and reinstall of the sound card to see if perhaps the updated drivers did not install correctly. Follow these instructions to cleansweep:
http://us.creative.com/support/kb/article.asp?l=2&sid=72
Jason

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Hello I've had this problem for as long as I can remember. I have already searched the forum in hope that I would find a solution. I didn't.
Ok, this is how it is. About two years ago I bought computer parts which I assembled together and "Creative SoundBlaster Li've! 5. Digital RETAIL PCI" was one of them.
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Setup will now exit."
Right. All drivers gives me this. I know that you guys will probably ask after the serial number now but I'm too lazy to check at the very moment and I know that the serial check will be a SB Li've! 5. digital card anyway so I don't see how that would solve this issue you are having with your, sorry to say this, outdated installs.
The card is installed correctly in the device manager as "Creative SB Li've! series". And how come I can install it from the CD but not from your internet drivers?
I'm using Windows 2000 Professional with service pack 4 by the way.
Is there a chance these installs wont work with latest service packs, that they were designed for earlier service packs and Microsoft maybe changed the way to detect hardware in later service packs?
I'd appreciate any help I can get because I really need to update my drivers, I got a small sound problem now it seems (soundeffects volume goes down and there is a bit of distortion when it's too many of the same sound playing - or when a soundeffect is to loud).
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That would be
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there.
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Well, the thing is, I bought my pc second-hand, and I never got any cd's for drivers with it. And I'm almost certain the soundcard I have wasnt pre-installed, since it's a creative soundblaster li've! 5. card. But like I said in my previous post, now that I have found the driver (not on the creative site but on a driver-site), its working fine again. Just a little disappointed that I couldnt find the driver on your website
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i am new to this forum so i hope someone could help me with my Problem.
I have the above mentioned soundcard. The following problem i have.
When i want to play a soundfile with any Player (Windows Media Player, Winamp and so on) and put the Sound Volume at the Subwoofer to Maximum...there is a background sound. It sounds like a hisshing or something like that. Its nearly the same sound you hear when you put a shell from a oceansnail to your ear. Its allways the same loud and its only disapear when you put out the sound in the Audio HQ.
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Hmm, the install extracts files but not in the current directory or in windows temp. How would I extract the content from the install file so I can patch it's
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data.cab
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disk.id
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