Ian,
    I recently bought this card as an upgrade from a SBLive! Value card.  I
also had several problems when I first installed the new Platinum 5.1.  The
problem was, in my rush to install and play with the new card, I did not
uninstall all of the old drivers and programs for the old card.  I had to go
through the Add/Remove Programs dialog and uninstall everything that had to
do with the old sound card.  Then I went through the Device Manager and
removed everything regarding the old card.  Then I rebooted and installed
the software that came with the new card.  When Windows prompted me to look
for a driver I cancelled that dialog and let Windows finish booting, then
used the driver CD to install.
    Even after all of that I had one error with the Playcenter, right after
I imported my MP3 collection into the Playcenter library.  I figured that
was just due to the shear number of files it had to look at, around 2600
files at aprox. 9GB.  After this I rebooted and have not had any other
problems with the software.

    I hope this helps you out.

Eric Ennis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Tyrrill" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 4:01 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] sblive 5.1 soundcard


> I have recently fitted the new creative sblive 5.1 soundcard. I have had
lots of error boxes with different conflicts registered. The main occurs
when the ct2 player(media player) is closed down, a error occurs with a
kernell .dll file. The error box will not close, and I have to ctrl, alt &
delete to reboot. If anyone has had problems with this card as there are no
updates. I have a Abit SE6 motherboard which has on board sound, but it has
been disabled in the bios. My previous card is a sblive 1024 player and I
have refitted it and now have no problems. Any ideas?
>
>                          PCBUILD's List Owner's:
>                       Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]>
>                        Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>
>

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