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...class processor: 166 MHz for Windows 95/98 or Windows Millennium Edition, 200 MHz for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 ❑ Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chipset ❑ Windows 95, 98 or Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 ❑ 16 MB RAM for Windows 95/98 or Millennium Edition (32 MB... the Package Your SB Live! Player 5.1 audio card. ❑ Software Pack (on CD-ROM only) containing Creative Utilities and Drivers for Windows® 95/98, Windows® NT 4.0/2000 and Windows® ME ❑ CD-ROM audio cable. ❑ CD SP/DIF Cable ❑ This Product Guide....
...class processor: 166 MHz for Windows 95/98 or Windows Millennium Edition, 200 MHz for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 ❑ Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chipset ❑ Windows 95, 98 or Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 ❑ 16 MB RAM for Windows 95/98 or Millennium Edition (32 MB... the Package Your SB Live! Player 5.1 audio card. ❑ Software Pack (on CD-ROM only) containing Creative Utilities and Drivers for Windows® 95/98, Windows® NT 4.0/2000 and Windows® ME ❑ CD-ROM audio cable. ❑ CD SP/DIF Cable ❑ This Product Guide....
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...: Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Installing the Audio Card • Install card in CD-ROM drive • For Windows 95/98/ME installation, use Update Device Driver Wizard and follow instructions • For Windows NT 4.0/2000 installation, use Creative Audio Software screen and follow instructions For more information, refer to quickly install SB Live! Installing Device...
...: Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Installing the Audio Card • Install card in CD-ROM drive • For Windows 95/98/ME installation, use Update Device Driver Wizard and follow instructions • For Windows NT 4.0/2000 installation, use Creative Audio Software screen and follow instructions For more information, refer to quickly install SB Live! Installing Device...
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...box re-appears. The a3d.dll file is found , then repeat steps 4 and 5, select the a3d.dll file, and then click OK twice. Windows 95/98/ME starts and briefly displays a message that the a3d.dll file cannot be found , the Update Device Driver Wizard dialog box re-appears. 3. ...The required files are running Windows 95/98/ME, follow these steps: 1. Read the instructions on your computer's hard disk. 7. Turn on screen and click Next. If none is copied to...
...box re-appears. The a3d.dll file is found , then repeat steps 4 and 5, select the a3d.dll file, and then click OK twice. Windows 95/98/ME starts and briefly displays a message that the a3d.dll file cannot be found , the Update Device Driver Wizard dialog box re-appears. 3. ...The required files are running Windows 95/98/ME, follow these steps: 1. Read the instructions on your computer's hard disk. 7. Turn on screen and click Next. If none is copied to...
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... User's Guide on your SB Live! Double-click the icon and select File, Open D:\MANUALS\ENGLISH\ENGLISH.PDF to access the online Guide. In Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, 2000 and ME double click the .exe file in D:\MANUALS\ENGLISH\ The Acrobat Reader 4.05 is now installed. Turn on your CD-...ROM drive, Windows starts and the following screen appears. 3. If you need more detailed information on screen to the online guide, SB Live! Product Guide 7 English ...
... User's Guide on your SB Live! Double-click the icon and select File, Open D:\MANUALS\ENGLISH\ENGLISH.PDF to access the online Guide. In Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, 2000 and ME double click the .exe file in D:\MANUALS\ENGLISH\ The Acrobat Reader 4.05 is now installed. Turn on your CD-...ROM drive, Windows starts and the following screen appears. 3. If you need more detailed information on screen to the online guide, SB Live! Product Guide 7 English ...
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... ❑ 16 MB RAM äëÿ Windows 95/98/ME (32 MB RAM 32 MB RAM äëÿ Windows NT 4.0 64 MB RAM äëÿ Windows 2000 ❑ 160 M PCI 2.1 133 Player 5.1 SB Live! Player 5.1 Creative äëÿ Windows® 95/98, Windows® NT 4.0/2000 è Windows® ME CD SP/DI SB Live...
... ❑ 16 MB RAM äëÿ Windows 95/98/ME (32 MB RAM 32 MB RAM äëÿ Windows NT 4.0 64 MB RAM äëÿ Windows 2000 ❑ 160 M PCI 2.1 133 Player 5.1 SB Live! Player 5.1 Creative äëÿ Windows® 95/98, Windows® NT 4.0/2000 è Windows® ME CD SP/DI SB Live...
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Connectivity ...A-3 Sound Blaster Live! card A-3 B SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME Background ...B-1 Understanding the Installation Program B-2 The AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings B-2 The CONFIG.SYS File Settings B-3 System Resource Settings...B-3 Input/Output (I/O) Addresses B-3 Interrupt Request (IRQ) ...
Connectivity ...A-3 Sound Blaster Live! card A-3 B SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME Background ...B-1 Understanding the Installation Program B-2 The AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings B-2 The CONFIG.SYS File Settings B-3 System Resource Settings...B-3 Input/Output (I/O) Addresses B-3 Interrupt Request (IRQ) ...
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... For Creative software, your card requires at least: ❑ Genuine Intel® Pentium® class processor: 166 MHz for Windows 95/98 or Windows Millennium Edition, 200 MHz for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 ❑ Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chipset ❑ Windows 95, 98 or Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 ❑ 16 MB RAM for Windows 95/98 or...
... For Creative software, your card requires at least: ❑ Genuine Intel® Pentium® class processor: 166 MHz for Windows 95/98 or Windows Millennium Edition, 200 MHz for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 ❑ Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chipset ❑ Windows 95, 98 or Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 ❑ 16 MB RAM for Windows 95/98 or...
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... and Analog Audio connectors of the same CDROM or PC-DVD drive, do not unmute CD Audio and CD Digital at the same time in Windows 95/98 MS-DOS mode (pure DOS mode), you must: • Make sure the CD In connector and the Analog Audio connector of the CD-ROM...
... and Analog Audio connectors of the same CDROM or PC-DVD drive, do not unmute CD Audio and CD Digital at the same time in Windows 95/98 MS-DOS mode (pure DOS mode), you must: • Make sure the CD In connector and the Analog Audio connector of the CD-ROM...
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... mode and starts running automatically. If not, see Appendix B, "SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME". 2-4 Installing Software Follow the instructions on page C-1. 2. Follow the instructions on the screen to reinstall only the audio drivers if you think they have ...
... mode and starts running automatically. If not, see Appendix B, "SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME". 2-4 Installing Software Follow the instructions on page C-1. 2. Follow the instructions on the screen to reinstall only the audio drivers if you think they have ...
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..., use the MS-DOS mode, in the market have been designed for only MS-DOS. Click Start -> Shut Down. 2. To start the system in Windows 95/98: 1. supports MS-DOS games. To restart the system in MS-DOS mode when you do not want to or cannot run a game from the MS...-DOS box. Click the Restart the computer in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-1 The game may be incompatible with Windows 95/98, or there are two ways to play MS-DOS games: ❑ From the MS-DOS box in...
..., use the MS-DOS mode, in the market have been designed for only MS-DOS. Click Start -> Shut Down. 2. To start the system in Windows 95/98: 1. supports MS-DOS games. To restart the system in MS-DOS mode when you do not want to or cannot run a game from the MS...-DOS box. Click the Restart the computer in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-1 The game may be incompatible with Windows 95/98, or there are two ways to play MS-DOS games: ❑ From the MS-DOS box in...
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...for your memory manager. card to your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. For example: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS You may load this driver into high memory when using the NOEMS option if SBEINIT....COM fails to load SBEINIT.COM into high memory in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME In the rare case that an MS-DOS game will not work with the game. B-2....EXE files to be able to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file: SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM The first two statements set up the environment variables...
...for your memory manager. card to your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. For example: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS You may load this driver into high memory when using the NOEMS option if SBEINIT....COM fails to load SBEINIT.COM into high memory in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME In the rare case that an MS-DOS game will not work with the game. B-2....EXE files to be able to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file: SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM The first two statements set up the environment variables...
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...-401 UART MIDI interface Default I /O) Addresses The installation program adds the following statements to the CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE This section explains the following tables, the preferred values are communication areas used by typing SET at the DOS...your system when sending or receiving data. I /O) addresses. Table B-1: Possible default input/output (I /O addresses are in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-3 The CON.IG.SYS .ile Settings System Resource Settings In the following software SB emulation resources-not hardware resources-
...-401 UART MIDI interface Default I /O) Addresses The installation program adds the following statements to the CONFIG.SYS file: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE This section explains the following tables, the preferred values are communication areas used by typing SET at the DOS...your system when sending or receiving data. I /O) addresses. Table B-1: Possible default input/output (I /O addresses are in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-3 The CON.IG.SYS .ile Settings System Resource Settings In the following software SB emulation resources-not hardware resources-
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... data directly to send or receive data for processing. Usage Default DMA Channel First DMA channel Second DMA channel 0, 1, 3 5, 6, 7 B-4 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME Interrupt Request (IRQ) Line Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channel Table B-1: Possible default input/output (I /O Address Range 388H to 38BH An IRQ line is a data...
... data directly to send or receive data for processing. Usage Default DMA Channel First DMA channel Second DMA channel 0, 1, 3 5, 6, 7 B-4 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME Interrupt Request (IRQ) Line Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channel Table B-1: Possible default input/output (I /O Address Range 388H to 38BH An IRQ line is a data...
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... the following: ❑ CTSYN Environment Variable ❑ BLASTER Environment Variable The CTSYN environment variable points to the software in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-5 Second DMA channel used by the audio interface. First DMA channel used by the audio interface. For MS-DOS, your system...The parameters in the command are used to pass hardware configuration information to the location of the CTSYN.INI file, which usually resides in the Windows directory. Card type. This Parameter Axxx Ix Dx Hx Pxxx Tx Specifies SB interface's base I /O address. x must be 6. IRQ...
... the following: ❑ CTSYN Environment Variable ❑ BLASTER Environment Variable The CTSYN environment variable points to the software in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-5 Second DMA channel used by the audio interface. First DMA channel used by the audio interface. For MS-DOS, your system...The parameters in the command are used to pass hardware configuration information to the location of the CTSYN.INI file, which usually resides in the Windows directory. Card type. This Parameter Axxx Ix Dx Hx Pxxx Tx Specifies SB interface's base I /O address. x must be 6. IRQ...
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...: Try switching the SB Emulation IRQ between 5 and 7, use DMA channel 1, use the information in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME SB16 Emulation resources in Windows 95/98: 1. card at a fixed set of the device is not recognised. Typically, these games expect the card to work... properly, try changing the SB Live! B-6 SB Emulation in the resource list to help you have difficulty detecting the SB Live! card. Problem: The MPU-401emulation is : C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE...
...: Try switching the SB Emulation IRQ between 5 and 7, use DMA channel 1, use the information in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME SB16 Emulation resources in Windows 95/98: 1. card at a fixed set of the device is not recognised. Typically, these games expect the card to work... properly, try changing the SB Live! B-6 SB Emulation in the resource list to help you have difficulty detecting the SB Live! card. Problem: The MPU-401emulation is : C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE...
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... to set . There are games that offer MPU-401/Roland (General MIDI or MT-32/LAPC-1) as options, specify the choices in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-7 supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16, and Adlib digital audio emulation. for music. for example, General MIDI music with ... can be found under "MPU-401 (General MIDI, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1) Emulation", displayed by SBECFG.EXE or the Resources tabbed page of the Creative SB Live! Selecting the Best Audio Options in a Game Music Options Digital Audio Options Most MS-DOS-based games that provide sound have a choice ...
... to set . There are games that offer MPU-401/Roland (General MIDI or MT-32/LAPC-1) as options, specify the choices in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-7 supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16, and Adlib digital audio emulation. for music. for example, General MIDI music with ... can be found under "MPU-401 (General MIDI, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1) Emulation", displayed by SBECFG.EXE or the Resources tabbed page of the Creative SB Live! Selecting the Best Audio Options in a Game Music Options Digital Audio Options Most MS-DOS-based games that provide sound have a choice ...
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...users who want to 127. DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to be a value from the range 0 to change the volume levels of the Creative Mixer settings in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME To set up batch files with particular volume levels-or within the SBEMIXER screen. Wave volume. CD audio volume. card.Typing...if they are independent of the MPU-401 instrument set used on the SB Live! Its syntax is On. Specifies Synth volume. B-8 SB Emulation in Windows 95/98. Synth MT-32/LAPC-1 mode. SBEMIXER.EXE Use SBEMIXER.EXE to 127. MS-DOS Mode Utilities The SB Live! card includes a few MS-...
...users who want to 127. DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to be a value from the range 0 to change the volume levels of the Creative Mixer settings in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME To set up batch files with particular volume levels-or within the SBEMIXER screen. Wave volume. CD audio volume. card.Typing...if they are independent of the MPU-401 instrument set used on the SB Live! Its syntax is On. Specifies Synth volume. B-8 SB Emulation in Windows 95/98. Synth MT-32/LAPC-1 mode. SBEMIXER.EXE Use SBEMIXER.EXE to 127. MS-DOS Mode Utilities The SB Live! card includes a few MS-...
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... /S:64 /W:120 /C:50 /M:0 which corresponds to "set SBESET values in the command line: At the DOS prompt, type the SBESET command in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-9 Use SBESET.EXE to change the mixer settings with the mouse, , , , or arrow keys. Under rare circumstances you to manually configure SB resources.... An example of the possible values. SBESET.EXE See "System Resource Settings" on page B-3 for example, if there is conflict in DOS follows the Windows settings. By default, SB Emulation in DOS before it can boot to 50, and turn off the Synth MT-32/LAPC-1 mode".
... /S:64 /W:120 /C:50 /M:0 which corresponds to "set SBESET values in the command line: At the DOS prompt, type the SBESET command in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME B-9 Use SBESET.EXE to change the mixer settings with the mouse, , , , or arrow keys. Under rare circumstances you to manually configure SB resources.... An example of the possible values. SBESET.EXE See "System Resource Settings" on page B-3 for example, if there is conflict in DOS follows the Windows settings. By default, SB Emulation in DOS before it can boot to 50, and turn off the Synth MT-32/LAPC-1 mode".
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Set x to 1 to use (your) user-assigned resource configuration. Set x to 0 to use the Windows-assigned resource configuration". B-10 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME For x, 1 is Off, 0 is SBESET -A240 -I5 -D3 -w0 which corresponds to "set the SB interface's base I /O address. SB ...Emulation mode. An example of an SBESET command is On. Use this to 3, and use the Windows-assigned resource configuration. SBEGO.EXE...
Set x to 1 to use (your) user-assigned resource configuration. Set x to 0 to use the Windows-assigned resource configuration". B-10 SB Emulation in MS-DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME For x, 1 is Off, 0 is SBESET -A240 -I5 -D3 -w0 which corresponds to "set the SB interface's base I /O address. SB ...Emulation mode. An example of an SBESET command is On. Use this to 3, and use the Windows-assigned resource configuration. SBEGO.EXE...
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... resolve I/O conflicts, change the resource settings of Windows 95/98. To resolve hardware conflicts in the Help file of your audio card or the conflicting peripheral device in your system using Device Manager in Windows NT 4.0 Conflicts between your audio card and another peripheral device may ... box, click the Device Manager tab. 4. In the Properties dialog box, click the Resources tab. 6. Restart your system to allow Windows 95/98 to reassign resources to your computer as Administrator. Player 5.1 card. Add each card back until Device Manager indicates that the Use automatic ...
... resolve I/O conflicts, change the resource settings of Windows 95/98. To resolve hardware conflicts in the Help file of your audio card or the conflicting peripheral device in your system using Device Manager in Windows NT 4.0 Conflicts between your audio card and another peripheral device may ... box, click the Device Manager tab. 4. In the Properties dialog box, click the Resources tab. 6. Restart your system to allow Windows 95/98 to reassign resources to your computer as Administrator. Player 5.1 card. Add each card back until Device Manager indicates that the Use automatic ...