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My card is ancient, but my mate has just got a Turtle Beach card and he thinks it's great, so that's sort of a recommendation.

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Yeah, I got Duke Nukem 3D working fully in DOS. Same with Carmageddon and GTA. Don't ask me how though, it was far too long ago to remember.

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Sorry, no help, but thanks for reminding me about Dungeon Keeper 2. That's a great game, I might go and play it now. http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/smile.gif

Try the originsl drivers, it...

Before you installt the card's drivers, remove one of your other cards, like a SCSI card or a modem - whatever. Then you can install the sound card and there will be no IRQ conflicts. Once there,...

Sorry, forgot to say that I would go for a Live.

I've got a MX300 at the moment, after returning my faulty Live and although the MX300 is great, I miss all the sound processing effects the Live...

Try the European site if you get lost.

I've heard it's easier to navigate than the American one.



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If it's anything like the card I used to have, then it'll be on a small white sticker on the back of the card or on a small white sticker on the back of the SBLive box.


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I used to have one and it was fine for me. It didn't have 4 speaker support, which is why I replaced it, but apart from that, I was happy with it.

I think it was a 64V model.
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It depends what you use sound for. If it's games, then onboard sound is a no-go-area but if you're using it just to maybe listen to a CD while you're typing a Word document up then it's fine. ...

Are they definitely bankrupt now? I thought someone was about to rescue them at the 11th hour.

I would go for the Live in that case then because you're then going to get driver updates whereas...

I can't think of one, but you could try getting into contact with the original manufacturers of the laptop, who might give you some more details on the subject.

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It depends what you are looking for.

If you're a gamer, then probably the SuperQuad...

...but if you like all the fancy effects for your CD's and .wav files and all the musician stuff, then...

Apart from what montezuma said, there's not a lot you can say. There's either a setting that's incorrect, the cables have come loose or the card is dead.

Have you recently installed any new...

You will get sound out of them if that's what you mean. I'm not sure it will be "digital" but you could try contacting Diamond / Creative to find out.

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I'm assuming you've got the Windows drivers installed. Ther'll be a SoundBlaster Pro emulation driver somewhere in there. You'll have to add a line into your autoexec.bat with

SET BLASTER = Ax...

You'll have no problem at all. There's a setting to change the speaker config. I think it defaults to 2 speaker setup anyway.

You won't get all the positional surround effects but everything...

If you've got an old amplifier with a couple of speakers that can do really deep bass then they'd be fine. I've got my dad's 20 year old amp running my rears and they sound much, much better than...

If you're into games like Quake3 and UT, then the MX300 is your card, although it'll cost you a lot more than $29 in England.

You can get the Videologic card that you mentioned for around £45. ...

Here's the post I was on about

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Probably not. As long your sound card can do 44kHz 16 bit stereo, then you won't notice any difference.

There was a post here a few days ago about quality of sound, and it was generally agreed...

Go to the Abit website and search for old BIOS updates or do a search for a third party site. If the last version worked fine, then why did you update it?

BIOS upgrades rarely provide any...

The SBLive has a Sound Blaster DOS emulation doesn't it? This would take up an IRQ. Try setting plug and play o/s to "no" in your BIOS and install the sound card (without the NIC in). Disable SB...

$29 for a MX300? That is cheap. I got mine reduced after I returned my SBLive after it developed a fault but the retail price was about £45, which is about $68

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Ignore Diamond's driver's, just use the reference drivers. I know they were better for the MX300, but that was an Aureal board. The MX400 has got an ESS chip on it. Seems decent, but I would go...

I had a very similar problem with a Vortex 2 except it just disabled my SCSI card. In the end, I REM'd out the line for SoundBlster Emulation in my autoexec.bat and everything worked.

Did you...