If the BIOS doesn't recognize the card, it must be a weird situation...
However, here are two things I thought of:

1) Try using any PCI card that requires installation in the slots in
question. Maybe the slot or the PCI bridge are not good. If you can get
hold of another SBLIVE card try it too.

2) One of my cards required a large force to insert correctly into the
slot... First time I hadn't done it correctly and the card _jumped_ out
of the MB while the PC was working (!) Check if this is an issue - all
pins must be inserted and the card top roughly parallel to the board
surface.

<> Max Timchenko [MaxVTn]
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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Peter Ramins wrote:

> A few weeks ago, and a few weeks before that, I wrote this list about my
> problems with a Creative SB Live! soundcard simply not "existing" while
> installed in my 200 mmx. (This happened suddenly, after installing a modem,
> but the card will work in OTHER machines.)
>
> I detailed how I had tried to change the card to a different PCI slot, how I
> had removed ALL cards except the video card, rebooted, and then reinstalled
> just the soundcard, to no avail.

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