Soundblaster Live! on KT4A-V freezes system

I have the on board sound disabled in the bios. I installed the soundblaster card and installed the drivers. There were no hardware conflicts in device manager, and I had sound coming out of the card. But when I reboot the system it freezes . I tried a different pci slot, same thing. I thought maybe it's because the card is sharing IRQ3 with the usb ports, although, as I said, there are no conflicts. It wouldn't let me change it, but I read anther post that suggested changing the plug and play os setting in bios to now. I also read other posts that talk about using newer drivers for the mb or sound card. I'd use the on board sound instead, but the Live card lets me use my 4.1 Cambridge Soundworks speakers, Any ideas?

"Do I ned to install the original drivers first (the ones that the pc is freezing with)?"
Yes, otherwise the creative AutoUpdate will not recognise your creative soundcard. That is why I said to use the AutoUpdate for driver 'updates'. But most important, is that you install the chipset (VIA 4in1) driver FIRST, before any other device drivers (including your sound card and video card).
Good luck! Let us know what happens...

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