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    Question Live!Ware 3.0 and Win98SE = Crash?

    This one's been driving me bonkers. I'm running Win98SE w/ DirectX 8.0a If I just install the drivers for my Soundblaster Live! X-Gamer, I'm fine. If I install the Live!Ware then I'm good until I need to reboot. When I try booting back up every time I get a BSOD. A fatal exception OE something or other, I'm at work now and don't have the error msg with me. The card was installed during a complete wipe/reinstall of my system. This computer is a PII400 w/ 256MB of RAM on using the Intel 440BX chipset. There are no conflicts showing in Device Manager.

    Any thoughts?
    4 out of 5 voices in my head say, GO FOR IT!

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    When you programmed your computer did you install the most recent chipset drivers for your motherboard? Also try to set your SB LIVEs IRQ to 5.

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    if you are running a coppermine CPU, then get the newest liveware from soundblaster.com

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    The computer defaulted to installing the at least some of the SB Live's functions under IRQ5.

    This machine uses a PII-400 and I was using the latest copy of Live!Ware from <a href="http://www.soundblaster.com" target="_blank">www.soundblaster.com</a>

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    You may want to disable all of Creative's Start-up crap using msconfig.

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    Try reserving IRQ5 in the BIOS specifically for the slot that your SB Live! is in.

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