I see that you may have a conflict involving "SB 16 Emulation" from a
SB Live Value sound card. I use W98SE with the same card and had
the same problem. I found it was using 2 IRQ's, one of which was for
the "Creative SB 16 Emulation".  I disabled "Creative SB 16 Emulation"
in Device Manager which freed an IRQ .  I can't find what capabilities,
if any, I have lost by doing that. As far as I can see, I still have a
functional sound card.
My questions to this esteemed group are:

What is "Creative SB 16 Emulation" ?
Which of us would need it and why ?

Thanks very much,  Bob Lendrim



At 11/9/02, you wrote:  ......
>My problem started when installing a Sound Blaster Live Value card.
>On a new clean install of W98SE, - nothing I could think of could even
>get a squeak out of it. I'm fairly sure its' been a good install, - mobo
>jumpers, BIOS, and Drivers from the CD. (and yes, I did remember to plug
>the speakers in) Inserting an audio CD shows me lovely little bar graphs,
>but the sound of silence.
>Then I changed to, and found, Device Manager / view devices by connection.
>- PCI bus -- Creative SB Live series --- SB16 emulation is linked to the
>conflict in PCI Mass Storage Controller  .........