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davidef, on Mar 14 2006, 06:01 PM, said:

Have you try to change your power supply ?? I have the same trouble and i resolved with a new 400W power supply.

That's impossible! Because Prime95 and 3D Mark passed, even when OC'ed!

Prime95 can fail even with a PC that appears to be stable, thus that's out of the question!

Installing a sound card driver isn't gonna put the PC at full load!

If it was my power supply, I wouldn't be able to keep my OC.

[Spock]

As there seems to be some confusion over SoundBlaster Live and win98SE let me give some facts. I've been researching this for a new win98SE install on a new PC and have been in contact four times with Creative CS on this:

Assuming your mobo/PC itself supports win98SE, then:

1. SoundBlaster Live series cards work fine with win98SE. They really do. Make sure you use Creative drivers. Unfortunately this product is no longer marketed by Creative (in Europe at least.) This gives rise to a problem when building new systems with win98SE.

OK, what is/is not supported now?:

2. According to Creative CS (customer services), and i quote: "Audigy SE is NOT supported in Win98SE, [and] SB Live 24 bits is NOT supported in win98Se as well."

3. "Audigy2 and Audigy 2ZS are supported in win98SE." (no good for me, overkill)

:-) BTW, here's a tip if you happen to have a dual boot system with XP and a SB Live card. YOU CAN UPGRADE FREE to Audigy 24 bit for winXP. DON'T install drivers below on win98SE because it'll screw things up (won't do any lasting damage), but DO install on XP. You'll be getting the equivalent of an Audigy for free! It works. Creative files needed are:

EAX4DRV_AUDIGY2_1_84_50 drivers and
Ctcomp.exe (7.3.0)

[zeko]

have you ever tried third party drivers for your sb live? i've been using them for a few weeks now and their way better and more stable than the original crap. visit this site: http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/