Good stuff Mary:

Two questions: Is SB emulation always for DOS games even when installed with a
non Creative Card. eg Aureal Vortex2500. SB emulation has to be disabled not
removed otherwise it will just reinstall. Disableing frees the IRQ?  Correct?

Is that three questions?

Thanks.


>EMU10K is used by the Sound Blaster Emulation.  It is needed if you are
>going to be playing games in DOS.  The Sound Blaster Emulation does not like
>to share an IRQ with any other device and most people have had the best luck
>with setting it to IRQ 5.  If you are not going to be playing games in DOS
>then you can disable the Sound Blaster Emulation.  It can be found in Device
>Manger under "Creative Miscellaneous Devices".  The Sound Blaster Live uses
>2 IRQ's, one for the Sound Blaster Emulation and One for the Sound Blaster
>Live card.  When you changed the IRQ of the PCI slot you only changed the
>IRQ of the Sound Blaster card.  Windows does not do a good job of assigning
>an IRQ to the Sound Blaster Emulation.
>
>To disable the Sound Blaster emulation you will need to go to Device Manager
>by right clicking the "My Computer" icon and selecting "Properties".  Select
>the "Device Manger" tab, expand the "Creative Miscellaneous Devices".
>Select the "CreativeSB16 Emulation" and select "Properties" button.  At the
>bottom of the "General" page check the "Disable in this hardware profile",
>click "OK".  Now you must also REM entries in your Autoexec.bat and
>Config.sys.  Go to "Start", select "Run", and type 'sysedit' in the run box
>without the quotes.  There should be 3 lines in the Autoexec.bat:
>
>SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330  T6
>SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
>C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
>
>Type REM with a space before each line, as shown below:
>
>REM SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330  T6
>
>Save the file and close the System Configuration Editor.
>
>You can now restart Windows.  You may still have the same problem as Windows
>may still try to locate the DOS emulation.  If this happens leave the
>Emulation disabled and reinstall the drivers.
>
>If you want to keep the DOS emulation then you will need to verify that it
>is on IRQ 5 and no other device is using IRQ 5.  You should go into your
>BIOS and reserve IRQ 5 for Legacy devices first. Then in Device Manager
>under the "Creative SB16 Emulation" properties, select the "Resources" tab.
>Uncheck "Use Automatic settings", then select the arrow for the pull down
>menu of "Settings based on" and select the first basic configuration.  It
>should probably use IRQ 5 but you may have to scroll down to find one that
>uses IRQ 5.  Once you have selected a configuration using IRQ 5 click "OK".
>You will get a warning message from windows about setting resources yourself
>and do you still want to do this, click "OK".  Close System properties and
>Windows should prompt you to reboot which you should do.  If you still
>continue to have the blue screen, try disabling the Creative SB16 emulation,
>rebooting, reinstall the drivers, reboot, re-enable the SB16 emulation.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Mary Wolden
>
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