Creative SB Live! 5.1

**Elvenmunky** · 07-01-2006, 10:57 PM

When i dload the drivers for this i get a message saying "Setup could not detect any Soundblaster Live! hardware... Please ensure it is properly installed..."...wtf and i think this soundcard is the cause of my games crashing all the damn time!!! coz microsoft error reporting says its a 'device driver' thats causing it...can someone help plz!!!

**peat moss** · 07-02-2006, 12:45 PM

It was working before , and shows in device manager ? I'v read some of your posts in Gamesworld do you have onboard sound as well ? Delete Sound Blaster
from Device Manager , reboot let windows reinstall it and have drivers ready .

If that does work try the card in anouther slot .

Drivers : http://ca.creative.com/support/downloads/

**Elvenmunky** · 07-03-2006, 12:49 PM

yeh i have 'realtek' as my onboard sound, could this be conflicting? i meant to say that the drivers provided with the soundcard (on cd) DO work but i cannot install drivers from the creative website and i think i need to install the updated drivers to stop my games crashing and crackling.

**peat moss** · 07-03-2006, 01:27 PM

If the on board sound is disabled , you can update drivers for SB thru Device Manager . Click on update driver and when prompted, point to the file with the update .

**Elvenmunky** · 07-03-2006, 02:23 PM

kool thanx...just out of curiosity how does it update it? through windows update?

**Virtualbody1234** · 07-03-2006, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by Elvenmunky

kool thanx...just out of curiosity how does it update it? through windows update?

Originally Posted by peat moss

Click on update driver and when prompted, point to the file with the update .

If you point it to the file then it will update from that file. Not from Windows update.

**Elvenmunky** · 07-03-2006, 03:56 PM

oh ok, afetr playing games it always crashes and this microsoft comes up with this error report:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response...0a26dfb&SID=10

Anyone know whaat this is?

**Virtualbody1234** · 07-03-2006, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Elvenmunky

oh ok, afetr playing games it always crashes and this microsoft comes up with this error report:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response...0a26dfb&SID=10

Anyone know whaat this is?

Did you successfully update the SB drivers? If so then perhaps it's another device driver causing the problem.