Item No.: HOTAns08

Posted Date: May. 3, 2000

Last Update: May. 3, 2000

This information applies to:

• Sound Blaster Live! Series.

• ALL VIA Chipset M/B.

I encountered the error message "Creative SB16 Emulation Driver NOT Loading" while loading the SBLive DOS driver, which also caused my system not able to play sound under DOS mode!

Figure 1.

1. Check your SBLive IRQ setting from the following device table (Fig.2) during the system start up.

Figure 2.

2. Restart your system and enter the BIOS Setup Menu to change the following IRQ setting manually (Fig.3):

PNP/PCI Configuration -> Resource Controlled by: Manual

IRQ-X* assigned to: Legacy ISA

X* denotes the IRQ value obtained from the Step 1 above.

Figure 3.

3. Save above BIOS settings and restart your system.

4. The following message (Fig.4) should appear once the SBLive DOS driver is successfully loaded.

Figure 4.

Note 1.

Please make sure you have the latest SBLive DOS driver for a trouble free installation.

Note 2.

The steps above are valid only if the DOS driver installation procedures were followed correctly according to SBLive DOS driver installation procedures.