SB Live! Value crashing my system.

[nemouk]

I have the following setup:

Abit KA7 w/ "RY" BIOS release, running on most stable setting, memory hole enabled.

Win2000, with 4 in 1's and latest VIA AGP driver, AGP confirmed.

SBLive! Value, using the "march" liveware release, sorry i could not find a verion number in the readme.

Creative Geforce SDR, with 5.25 Detonator drivers.

The PC hangs, looping a sound after 10 minutes to 3 hours play. Only in games, well i only play Half-Life. I turned off EAX, and that did nothing.

The card is not sharing IRQ's, and ACPI is disabled, the PC is installed as a "Standard PC".

Any ideas...

 

[SyriuS]

Try the live card in a different PCI slot. Hope this helps

 

[nemouk]

Tried that already,

Thanks for responding.

 

[pyr]

if theres anything I dont like about VIA its the compatibility issues all the time.. that and even their best chipsets are underperforming. Anyways, disable the memory hole. thats for ancient video cards mostly and it will do you no good. Did you try the older liveware? also check creatives newsgroups sometime.

 

[paruhd0x]

Creative SB Live value's drivers are buggy. My sound crashes on Win2k randomly. My system is in my sig.

 

[nemouk]

Thank you all for your responses, i went ahead and disabled Memory Hole.

As for the suggestion that i should go back to older liveware, i did a format and let the system run on the default win2k drivers. Although the system was more stable it only took a few hours of gaming to crash...

Do you think perhaps 4X Enabled would be causing the crash?

 

[DJ_Donut]

I use to have the same problem using SBlive! Value.

I dont know what causes this sound loop lockup but lowering hardware acceleration level seems to help.

C:\Program Files\DirectX\Setup\DxDiag

Go under the sound tab and lower the acceleration level to basic.

 

[yoshald]

There is a new 4 in 1 driver set you could try at
http://www.via.com.tw/drivers/index.htm but read the following first.

I actually have what I think is the exact same problem as you with similar hardware. D3D games lock up my machine and the sound loops. I too suspected the sound card, which was a Monster Sound MX400. So I replaced it with a SB Live! value. I first used the drivers from the Win2K CD, then tried the latest Liveware. Still got the freezes and sound loops. One thing to note is that Quake 3 never locked up the machine, only Motocross 2 and Midtown Madness, which use D3D.

Someone suggested to me that the VIA drivers were the culprit. In the Control Panel | add/remove Programs, I uninstalled the AGP Driver 4.03. Success! My frames are a bit lower in games, but at least it no longer locks up and does the goofy sound loops. I noticed in the readme for the AGP drivers, that 4.03 is the first version to support Win 2000. I hope they know about this issue.

Asus K7V / Athlon 750 / 128MB CAS2 Mushkin / CL Geforce 2 / SB Live!