Does Athlon and SB Live! conflict

[Minh716]

i heard that SB Live doesn't work well with Athlons. Is this true?

 

[lenjack]

In most cases, it will be fine.

 

[sohcrates]

sometimes i've heard that it's important to get the sblive! in the correct pci slot on some athlon mobo's to avoid issues, but i've built at least 4 systems with athlons and sblive!'s in the past 6 months and have never had any trouble....so going from my personal experiences i'd say don't worry about it. if it was really that big of a deal, i think we'd hear a lot more about it.

 

[Shmorq]

I have no problems on a MSI K7 Turbo and the Live! Maybe the old drivers had problems??? and now it's solved.

 

[sd]

Runs good on both my systems

 

[Minh716]

same for soundblaster platinum? btw thanks for the input

 

[Shmorq]

The Platinum is the same sound card as all the others. It only comes with a bigger software bundle and the Live Drive. I don't have the live drive, but I can't see it causing any conflicts.

 

[GT578]

I had problems with games crashing after several minutes due to the pci slot I used for my sblive. On my K7T Pro2-A, I had the sblive in pci slot#3 and had the problem of games locking up in win2k and win98se. I thought it was videocard driver issues or something. I tried every single software solution I can think of...but eventually moved it to the last PCI slot which solved that problem. Other than that......i haven't had any problems with my tbird system.

 

[jamison]

I have 2 athlon systems - both with Soundblaster Live.

No troubles here.

 

[Rand]

The SBLive is not inherently incompatible with the athlon. I've never heard of any specific problems on Athlon's and I've seen and setup a number of systems with SBLIve + Athlon.
I know that the earlier driver releases wouldnt work with the Coppermine P3 when it was initially released.