SB Live and the IRQ 5 BIOS Setting

[Assault9]

I'm going to give the SB-Live X-Gamer a shot in my Asus CUV4X-E motherboard (VIA 694X chipset). Just to clarify for an idiot such as myself, if I run into some problems after installation all I need to do is set the Legacy drive to IRQ 5 in the BIOS and install the latest LiveWare drivers?

[Lycia]

Supposedly that is one of the many fixes. However, I'd check www.viahardware.com for more info. SB don't play well with VIA chipsets.

[CobraTekMax]

Yes, setting IRQ 5 to legacy ISA in the BIOS does solve about 95% of all SB Live related problems, or disabling SB16 emulation all together.

Does ANYTHING play well with a VIA chipset (without loading a dozen different service packs/patches/fixes)? Oh well, all the cool motherboards are using VIA chipsets these days, so what are you gonna do?

[mahdi]

If it wasn't for VIA I wouldn't have many problems with my computer. Before it want haywire the SB Live! drivers would blue screen the system and not boot into safe mode. So I blew out the system and changed the IRQ 5 to Legacy and it loaded the drivers with no problem. I would say have a good backup before you install that card "Just in case".