SoundBlaster Live! 24 and Vista - Deteriorating Sound Qual

I've recently upgraded to Vista Business, and my system informs me that except for the drivers for an ancient scanner all is working properly.
When playing music (using a Creative SB Li've 24bit card with the most recent driver installed), all starts off well (in fact playback is better than under XP Pro) but the sound quality starts to deteriorate badly, especially when I open a browser. Quite often the browser itself seems to freeze.
I have 3Gb RAM, with a 3.60Ghz P4 processor.
Task Manager tells me that often I am running at 00% of CPU capacity, though the problem seems to occur at lower usage too.
I've checked everything I know to check but just can't seem to get to the root of the problem. Can anyone suggest anything I should be looking at?

Sadly no real progress.
I simply pulled the Soundblaster Live 24 out of the computer and am using the onboard sound instead which at least for me Arch recognized just fine.
I haven't been able to get any suggestions for why the Soundblaster was not working, but I am going to try another sound card a friend lent me and see what happens.

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HI there!
I finally bought a 5.1 Surround System today, but I have a major problem. Only the Subwoofer, Fron-Left- and Front-Right-Speakers are working, no Sound from Center, Surround-Left- and Surround-Right-Speakers
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I tried so much already and nothing works
I played around with alsamixer and I finally got the Center-Speaker to work, but it just works instead of the Front-Left-Speaker. It really sucks.
Maybe you can help me, it would be nice.

i had some same issues , but i have soundblaster live 24-bit , but disabling the onboard bios didnt do anything for me , so i had to look for some ways to figure out how to fix this , * love thy google.com/linux *
bash# speaker-test -c6 -t2 ( this is to test your surround speakers , providing your using ca0106 driver such as myself )
if you only get a few channels you could also make your ~/.asoundrc file with some goodies in it ill post a few examples i have found
pcm.ca0106 {
type hw
card 0
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type hw
card 0
ctl.!default {
type hw
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pcm.!default {
type hw
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pcm.!default {
type plug
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pcm.dout {
type dmix
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slave {
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period_time 0
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buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
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type hw
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pcm.duplicate {
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pcm.dmixs51 {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,1"
rate 48000
channels 6
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_time 0
buffer_size 4096
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixs51"
pcm.duplicate {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixs51"
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Soundblaster Live 24bit External + Vista h

Ugh, what a nightware this is. Where do I start?
I installed using the installation cd that came with it and upgraded to the "vista" drivers on the creative website.
I have sound, but no CMSS and no working Line In.
Is there a workable solution to this?

I downloaded the file. Unzipped it and converted the iso file with WinAr. It was/looked like the same CD I have. It would not install anything because it did not recognize a soundblaster product,?but when I plugged in the card thru the USB a defalt windows driver was installed. I have been trying this for weeks with no luck. Somehow windows installed a default "usb audio" driver. The sound was all crackily when I played an mp3. I went into the hardware update and updated the driver. Windows found a driver to update with in the C:\windows\systen32 folder. It is now working fine.
Now my only problem is when I restart windows I have to unplug the usb with the soundcard attached then plug it back in when I am back at the desktop. I think there is a conflict at startup and the computer will freeze if the card remains plugged in but I have been living with this ever since I bought the card a year and a half ago. THe only issue is I am worried I will plug it in one of these times and it will not be recognized again. What a pain...

Soundblaster Live! 24-bit No Sound Prob

I installed this sound card on my windows xp sp2 comp and it worked fine, I went to install the same soundblaster li've! 24-bit card on my windows 2000 sp4 comp and installation went fine. My problem is I get no sound what so ever on my windows 2000 comp and my windows xp comp did, I tried plugging in different speakers, headphones, and any other audio devices I could find that I know worked(tested on numerous things besides my windows 2000 comp) and nothing works. Driver version is 5.2..34, which came directly off the CD from the retail box that I purchase. I could not find any new drivers for this sound card off Creative's website, so I figure there wasn't any new releases. My sound panel has all my volume controls at 00%, the Creative Surround Mixer has all my volume controls set at 00%, and I know for a fact I have everything plugged in correct(Audio output device plugged into green, mic plugged into blue, nothing in orange or black). Any help would be much appreciated,
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Message Edited by Seventhwind on 2-3-2004 0:02 AM

Seventhwind,
Did you check Speaker Settings application and ensure that the Digital Output Only option has not been enabled.
Also disable any onboard audio from the BIOS if any.
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Soundblaster Live Value and Windows

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[size="3" face="Times New Roman">Catherina-CL, ?I thank you for the advice and for the others in sharing their experiences.
[size="3" face="Times New Roman">I still have a few problems and would appreciate some further help.
[size="3" face="Times New Roman">I have installed the update as suggested.
[size="3" face="Times New Roman">When I was running Sounblaster under Windows ME, there was an applet called ?What You Hear?, I can now no longer find this applet.
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[size="3" face="Times New Roman">kevsim

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Hi,
I have just upgraded my motherboard to an Asus A8V Deluxe. On my old board, I used to use two sound devices at once. One was the onboard sound and the other was a PCI Sound Blaster Li've card.
On the new board, I have the Realtek onboard sound enabled in BIOS. This works fine on its own, but when I put the Sound Blaster Li've in, Windows no longer displays the Realtek in the device manager. Instead I just get the Sound Blaster. So its like the motherboard doesnt like two cards at once.
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Thanks in advance.
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Have a SB li've (value?) (CT4780) from a Dell PC, circa 2000. The Dell machine died so I removed the SB li've card and Installed it in my Asus MB P3B machine running windows 98 SE. Dnloaded the drivers for SB Li've Value from the Creative USA site and installed them....No sound...from any source. Checked the web..supposedly there are some problems with this card and usable drivers from Creative. Can anybody point me toward the right set of drivers that will make this card work with W 98SE?
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#Hey guys, I just have a simple question to ask you as I'm pretty uneducated when it comes to sound cards. I have an onboard soundcard thats on my ASUS A8N CM VSM that uses SoundMax drivers, simple stuff. I also have a SoundBlaster Li've! from an old computer. Just wondering, is the SB Li've a better card? Would it be beneficial for me to install it's?
Thanks

'Re: SoundBlaster Li've! vs Onboard Sound-Well, technically, yes, even such an oldie will be better than that built-in sound that you have. But in fact, the difference is not that huge. When listening to loud?music?you'll hardly notice the difference between, say, 80 and 90 db noise that these cards provide. I?compared my old SB Li've! (SB000) with such an embedded codec and I only noticed some timbral differences: in my case the built-in codec didn't produce as rich bass and clear treble as the Li've!
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Problem with DTT3500 soundset and onboard Soundblaster live! 24-bit

Hi,
I have bought a new PC with an MSI k8n sli platinum MB. this mainboard has a built in soundblaster live!24-bit chip onboard. it works great on headphones and normal 2 set speakers (analog connection).
however, when I try to set them up at the DTT3500 speaker set, trouble begins.
before continuing, just want to say First that my older PC is standing next to it, with a Soundblaster live! 5.1. If I connect with this PC to my speaker set, via the digital uitput, everythin works great. (5.1 surround).
In the DTT3500 manual, when Digital DIN is blinking, it says it isn't recieving any signal, or not the right one (like AC-3). (I know this when on my old PC when I switch to headphones, the digital din is then blinking, which is normal as I disabled Digital output in Windows)
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Is this digital port is ac-3 signal or somthing else on the Soundblaster live! 24-bit?
Do I need to use another type of cable, like SPDIF Din Cable? (I now have a minijack to Din cable)
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I do know that the reviews said you could use the digital port (orange one)
here is a picture:
http://www.overclockers.co.nz/ocnz/reviewimage.php?id=05boardnf4sli00microstak8nslipt0104&file=panel.jpg
and here more info on it: http://www.overclockers.co.nz/ocnz/review.php?id=05boardnf4sli00microstak8nslipt0204
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StormPetrel wrote:
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In no way a 300W Power Supply has enough power for all your stuff.
2 HDD's, a power-hungry Pentium, a xfi card, dvd burner and many other stuff ...
Problems like this can happen then if your power supply has not enough power to handle all this stuff.
Get a better powersupply that can handle your stuff and I am sure it will work again. In a few cases its also possible that YOU damage your hardware on this way, if it can not get enough stable power, it might mess up your hardware. I also already blowed up a harddisk one day because I have connected too much stuff to one cable. I had 3 HDD's, Mainboard, Lights, Fans and DVD connected to one single cable. All devices there did not get enough power, harddisks made crazy sounds (on/off/on/off very fast) and after that one of my HDDs was bad.
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Hi - I need HELP!!

HP Pavilion with Windows ME stopped working, so I used recovery discs to start over. Since that time, no sound has come from computer at all. Yesterday, purchased a Soundblaster Li've 24 bit sound card and installed it, and still no sound. All diagnostics tests fail, except for the first one - hardware. There are no "X's" or "!" next to Soundblaster in the device manager and it says its working fine. However, in the control panel under sounds - audio, all options are greyed out completely.

I spent $40 to talk to tech support at HP to try to resolve the problem. The tech had me go into F during startup into the setup, go to advanced, and change Soundblaster from "disabled" to "enabled." But whenever that is changed to enabled, computer automatically shuts off.

I'm at wits end. Daughter and I got ipods for Christmas, but can't transfer any music because ) ITunes does not work with Windows ME, and 2) It won't allow me to transfer music through RealPlayer because the sound card is not working.

Any help or suggestions at all would be appreciated. Sorry for the ramble.

LK

Thejet7,
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