Apr 19, 2008. There are some people having problems with their Creative Sound Blaster Live! In Windows 9x. The provided software is useless without a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Card installed. Main Driver Set. CT4670 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_00201102 - Sound Blaster Live!

Hi everyone, Just got an old Creative Sound Blaster Live! From a friend, and I'm looking to use it instead of my fuzzy onboard Realtek audio. Does anyone know what I can do to get the computer to recognize the card? I've used this site ( to try to get a better understanding of what's going on, but I've had no revelations yet. Anyone know what I can do? If I have no luck with the Live!

Card, can someone suggest a $25 or lower price 7.1 capable card that they consider good? New or used is fine.

Thanks for the driver support, I'll definitely use that driver if I get the chance. My bigger problem is that the setup exits with some message that begins with 'Setup is unable to find a supported product on your system.' I turned off the integrated audio in the BIOS, but the computer still isn't detecting the card.not sure how to make it show up. This may be a dumb question, but did I install it properly? I didn't connect anything to it on the inside; I just attached it to the proper slot. Could it be that it needs more power or something?

When I look at my attached devices, the card shows up as an unknown device, but I don't know how to get past that. Hi everyone, Just got an old Creative Sound Blaster Live! From a friend, and I'm looking to use it instead of my fuzzy onboard Realtek audio. Does anyone know what I can do to get the computer to recognize the card? I've used this site ( to try to get a better understanding of what's going on, but I've had no revelations yet.

Anyone know what I can do? If I have no luck with the Live! Card, can someone suggest a $25 or lower price 7. Relativistic Quantum Fields Bjorken Pdf Writer. 1 capable card that they consider good? New or used is fine. XCsteve Probably late but hopefully this will help others with SB Live problems. When I made the move to Win7, I discovered I couldn't use the Creative software and the drivers.

I did some searches for help with no luck. I did install a program KX Audio driver that was a free generic driver for the SB card.

It worked great for about a year then, I started getting muffled sound and lost my rear speaker sound. I messed with it off and loading and reloading with no luck. I was about to give up and shop for a Win7 compatible card. I decided to more searching for a compatible driver for my SB Live! I found a guy that said to try some things using the Creative drivers. It didn't work for me, but my own variation worked. I have great sound from my SB Live card and Logitec 5.1 speakers.

I can even use my keyboard controls with it. Here's what I did. 1) Went to Creative and downloaded the driver package as I had probably thrown mine away.

2) Before I ran it, I right clicked on it and under the compatibility mode I changed whatever it was to compatibility for Win XP Service Pack3. 3.) Then a little lower on the page I checked Run As Administrator. I ran it and when it came up and asked what I wanted to install, I only checked Load Drivers just to see what would happen. Loaded the drivers and had music before I even had to reboot. I tried loading the mixer, but it wouldn't work.

Installing Apache Thrift On Windows. Windows & has a mixer that I use, nit the greatest, but i have nice 5.1 sound back!

Updated: March 20, 2009 - Added download mirror for dencorso's parametric EQ patch (Thanks again MDGx ) There are some people having problems with their Creative Sound Blaster Live! In Windows 9x. Creative CD release drivers and Web Release drivers seem to be in many different revisions for different cards. Some revisions are good and some are not.

For years I have been collecting and testing newer versions of creative driver files to determine those that worked in 9x with the Live! Following is that collection of driver files: Please note that these are original, freely available Creative files, and the binaries are not modified or patched in any way. The provided software is useless without a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Card installed.

Main Driver Set (4.42 MiB) mirror 1: mirror 2: Creative EMU10K1 sound devices supported: CT4620 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_00211102 - Sound Blaster Live! (Gen I) CT4670 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_00201102 - Sound Blaster Live! (Gen I) Value CT???? -- PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_002F1102 - Sound Blaster Live! Motherboard integrated CT4760 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80401102 - Sound Blaster Live! (Gen II) CT4780 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80221102 - Sound Blaster Live!

Value CT4790 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80231102 - Sound Blaster PCI512 (OEM) CT???? -- PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80251102 - Sound Blaster Live! Motherboard integrated CT4830 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80261102 - Sound Blaster Live! (Gen II OEM) Value CT4831 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80311102 - Sound Blaster Live! Value CT4832 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80271102 - Sound Blaster Live! Value CT4850 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80511102 - Sound Blaster Live!

Value CT4870 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80281102 - Sound Blaster Live! Value CT4871 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80321102 - Sound Blaster Live!

Value SB0060 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80611102 - Sound Blaster Live! (Gen III) 5.1 SB0100 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80621102 - Sound Blaster Live! (Gen III) 5.1 SB0102 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80641102 - Sound Blaster Live! (Gen III) 5.1 SB0100 - PCI VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80661102 - Sound Blaster Live!

(Gen III) 5.1 (Unofficial) If you have a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Card that is not recognised by these drivers, then please post your PCI ID. The PCI ID can be found using regedit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Enum PCI Look for a key starting with VEN_1102&DEV_0002, and copy the key name.

I have used these drivers in Windows 98SE, but they should support 95 and Me although I have not tested them on these platforms. There are Creative installers for Windows 95 and for Windows 98/Me. Windows 9x Pure DOS support drivers For those wanting Pure DOS (outside of Windows) Sound Blaster 16 Emulation for their Live! And have lost or never had the original CD, or have a newer CD that does not come with these, or simply can't be bothered looking for them: 1999 Release (823 KiB): mirror 1: mirror 2: 2000 Release (827 KiB): mirror 1: mirror 2: There are two releases of DOS Drivers. The 2000 release should work on all Live! Cards, but if there is a problem then use the 1999 release. Note: DOS Emulation may not work on some (newer) motherboards if the BIOS does not map the PCI SERR# signal to the processor NMI (Non-Maskable Interrupt).

Look in the BIOS settings for a PCI SERR setting or check with your mobo vendor for a BIOS upgrade, or dump the Mobo for one that works properly! See here for more technical information: Creative Applets that are compatible and tested with VxD drivers: Check your current version of each applet before installing these in case they are actually newer than these. AudioHQ To deinstall the original CD installed AudioHQ (and 1.0.185.0): C: WINDOWS IsUninst.exe -f'C: Program Files Creative SBLive AudioHQ.isu' Always deinstall old version first! 1.0.185.0 (Oct 1999) - Works (1.98 MiB): mirror 1: mirror 2: 1.0.193.0 (Sep 2000) - Fails to install (!) 1.0.193.0 (May 2001) - Fails to install (!) 1.10.21 (Jun 2002) - Fails with VxD drivers 1.10.22 (Nov 2002) - Fails with VxD drivers Surround Mixer To deinstall the original CD installed Surround Mixer: C: WINDOWS IsUninst.exe -f'C: Program Files Creative SBLive SurMixer.isu' To deinstall 1.1.1.0 of Surround Mixer: C: WINDOWS IsUninst.exe -f'C: Program Files Creative SurroundMixer SurMixer.isu' Always deinstall old version first! 1.1.1.0 (Nov 2000) - Works (1.68 MiB): mirror 1: mirror 2: 2.00.26 (Jun 2002) - Fails with VxD drivers 2.00.29 (Nov 2002) - Fails with VxD drivers 3.00.57 (Feb 2003) - Fails with VxD drivers More stuff: dencorso's parametric EQ patch for emu10k1.vxd 4.: See here: mirror 1: mirror 2: aLeXis' patch installer: mirror 1: mirror 2: Various Sound Blaster files hosted by MDGx: Standard disclaimer These drivers have worked for me but YMMV. I have been using them for years with no problem, however, they may or may not work on your model of Creative sound card, and therefore, I cannot make any guarantee of suitability. In simple terms, you are solely responsible if your audio begins to sound like you're in a concrete bunker some thirty-seven miles from the stage of Disaster Area!

Edited February 16, 2010 by RetroOS. I've corrected some of the Sound Blaster Live! Model names in the first post supported list. If anyone was wondering, the supported devices do include the SB0060 Live!

5.1 cards (previously incorrectly named). I would like to confirm the operation of these drivers on various Live! If you have installed these drivers and they are working correctly, then please post your Live! Information as listed in the first post would be good. CT or SB model (on card), descriptive model (on box or manual), and PCI ID would all be useful. PCI ID can be found using regedit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Enum PCI Look for key starting with VEN_1102&DEV_0002, and copy key name.

And the version of Windows 9x (95, 95A, 95B, 95C, 98, 98SP1, 98SE, Me) Also let me know if the drivers have not worked for you and why. These drivers do not include the Creative apps like Surround Mixer. Many of these can be downloaded from Creative. B) Edited May 25, 2008 by RetroOS. .What model Live!

Card do you have? CT4830 Looks like you have a Generation II Live!

I've got a Gen II myself. Generation III was introduced with the Live! There have been driver updates since the Live!Ware 3.0 full package was released.

That's the point of these drivers. As I noted in a previous post, these are the core drivers and do not include Creative applications like Surround Mixer. The Creative apps have been updated since Live!Ware 3.0 also, but there are some compatibility issues with some newer versions since they are often designed for the WDM drivers (not recommended in 9x - I tested them, and could never get them working properly.). .What model Live!

Card do you have? CT4830 Looks like you have a Generation II Live!

I've got a Gen II myself. Generation III was introduced with the Live! There have been driver updates since the Live!Ware 3.0 full package was released.

That's the point of these drivers. As I noted in a previous post, these are the core drivers and do not include Creative applications like Surround Mixer. The Creative apps have been updated since Live!Ware 3.0 also, but there are some compatibility issues with some newer versions since they are often designed for the WDM drivers (not recommended in 9x - I tested them, and could never get them working properly.). Yeah i know the point of this post but i hate it when companies dont post updated drivers for their older hardware and only for the newer (obvious reasons) even if they are compatible.i didn't knew there were newer vxd drivers for my card besides the lw3.0 package. What about the apps? Is threr surround mixer update for the vxd drivers?

I would like to try it. Thanks for this nice compilation.would be nice if you could find the updated dos drivers (not preinstalled tho).