The Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!, and first generation Audigy, sound
cards can suffer a PCI enumerator chip "crash." That is to say that the
card's PCI identification chip can be erased. Creative Labs has known about
this problem. Check with Creative Labs for more help.


On 15/11/2005 "HeXFuRy" <HeXFuRy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I recently installed a new Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit to replace my onboard
>sound card. Since install none of my sound options have worked. I have
>installed drivers new and old, Tried multiple PCI slots, everything, I cannot
>make it work.
>
>The audio properties tab is completely grayed out, saying no Audio Devices
>are installed. Device Manager has no errors or resource conflicts and shows
>the hardware installed just fine. When I check Sounds and Audio Devices
>Properties, Go to the Hardware Tab, Properties of Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit,
>Properties again, Audio Devices, Properties, I see a "Status: Driver is
>enabled but has not been started."
>
>According to other forums, the problem may be the Plug and Play Software
>Device Enumerator. According to that advice I reinstalled it and it had no
>affect on the problem.
>
>Another thing I saw indicated that I may have no space for new
>Midi/Wave/etc. devices in the registry. By going to
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32 and
>deleting duplicate named keys of Midi, midi1, midi2, etc. That may free up
>the driver registration space and help solve the problem, however, this
>tactic didn't work either.
>
>I am at the end of my ropes with this. I should not need to reinstall
>windows again simply because I bought a new soundcard. Any help would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank You,
>HeXFuRy@hotmail.com