Sound Blaster Live Value and Serial Mouse Problem

I worked on a machine loading Win XP Pro, AMD CPU,
SB Live Value sound card, and a MS serial mouse.
During hardware detection, it froze, so shut down, turn
back on, freezes again, etc. Took out all but video card,
it finishes. All cards but sound card work fine as well when
put back in. Can't get the machine to boot with SB Live in
place, even if I pre-load the drivers for it. Replace the Serial
Mouse with a PS/2 mouse and the SB Live now works again,
but takes a totally unbelievable amount of time to detect
and install. Is a serial mouse that bad for XP? Or a SB Live???

Any other problems of this sort lurking?

Why use a serial mouse anyway if you have a PS/2...?

have you checked IRQ's?

Try for the latest Sound card update

Must admit that even with that you may stretching your luck with a serial mouse.

Go for the PS2

like Archangel42069 said might be IRQ's alot of newer systems use shared irq's depending on which PCI slot you have the sound card in.

Try uninstalling through dev mgr shutting down and moving the soundcard to a different pci slot.

Every new board I have encountered only has one pci slot that doesn't share with anything else...

If you check your motherboard manual you should find a little table showing you what onboard device and pci slot shares with what pci slot. Very very frustrating if you have 2 cards that hate sharing....

SB Lives seem to be the one card that causes a lot of posting. It is worth remembering that not all SB Lives are created equal. There are a couple of OEM versions which do not like the standard drivers. One was only supposed to be released in Asia but found its way to the states, the other is an OEM destined for the western world. The only way to tell the apart is the CT number on the top right hand side of the card.

If you post the CT number we can check the SBLive for "realness" :D

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Originally posted by NooNoo
Every new board I have encountered only has one pci slot that doesn't share with anything else...

If you check your motherboard manual you should find a little table showing you what onboard device and pci slot shares with what pci slot. Very very frustrating if you have 2 cards that hate sharing....

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Oh hum ... isn't this allways slot 1 which you can't use anyways if you have an agp card ('cos nothin' fits!) ... so wouldn't that be 'very very frustrating if you have any cards that hate sharing ....' :D

& just how many motherboard mannuals contain this info !!?? ... trots off to look :confused: .... comes back looking smug ;) ... big pile of 70 or so m/b mannuals later .... 3 ! :D :D Not to say you can't find this info, I've had reason to many many times ... sigh ....

The point is that board manufacturers now conviently assume you have PCI 2.1 compliant cards so everything should share ! ... however, over here in the real world we know that ain't allways the case !! If you install XP without ACPI, so with a standard HAL you can avoid this as sharing will only take place once all of the irq have been munched up.....

The xp install routine wasn't written for 'home' builders & upgraders, or there'd be something in the install to deal with this, but there ain't ... just something you are meant to know about :rolleyes: :sad: