Just bought a SB Live Value Rev 2....

[Maniac]

Gonna install it tonight, any words to the wise??

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Celeron 300A@464 2.0V, Abit BH6 G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A, Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster 32PNP

[stevenscott]

Yes,
I hope you have a set of good speakers so you can use it. The better the speakers, the better the sound with the SBLIVE.

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Home:
Server:
I run a Matrox Marvel G400 AGP with an:
Abit BE6 MotherBoard
Win98
Adaptec CD Creator 4
Pentium III 450
128 MB Ram
SB Live
Maxtor 13 GIG HD
2 3com Nic cards
Wingate 3.05
1 Symbios SCSI for my HP Photo Scanner
Boca 56K Int. Modem
Mitsumi 4801-TE CD-R
MS Precision Pro Joystick
Surfboard SB1200 cable modem
Shamrock 17" Monitor
HP OfficeJet Pro 1175Cse 4/1 printer/Scanner/Fax/copier
Note: I have the Matrox Mystique G200 16MB AGP Video Card, stashed away,
That I took out and replaced with the Marvel G400 on 10/13/99.
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Client1:
AbitBX6 MB
Win98
Celeron 300a
Maxtor 6.4 GIG HD
128 MB Ram
Netsurf NIC
SB Live sound card
Teac CDRom
Hercules Thriller AGP Video Card
Boca 56K Int. Modem
MS Precision Pro Joystick
Shamrock 15" monitor
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[Maniac]

Well it's install time, my speakers are good Yamaha M-15 with Yamaha Sub-woofer, but I was referring to all the conflicts I've heard of between the G400 and a Live...

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Celeron 300A@464 2.0V, Abit BH6 G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A, Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster 32PNP

[paulcs]

Maniac, be sure to install the *latest* drivers, right from the start. Stay away from that CD. (I hope I'm not too late.)

Good luck.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[LAMFDTK]

Good luck Great choice ! I love my live!

[Thundrchez]

The SB Live! Value is a good card. I've got one in my main gaming machine. I've downloaded the LiveWare 3.0 drivers from Creative, and they are working OK.

However, make sure that you do not have a line in your autoexec.bat such as "SET TMP=D:\TMP". I set TEMP and TMP environment variables to my secondary hard disk partition so that I can minimize the fragmentation on my bootup partition. Unfortunately, LiveWare3 halfway uses the TMP env variable. It extracts some of the files there, but the installer never starts. If you do not set "TMP", it defaults to C:\Windows\Temp, and LiveWare3 will install correctly.

I would say that it is a step in the right direction. LiveWare2.X completely ignored my TMP environment variable. Now if Creative could only fully correctly use the TMP variable.

Oh, yeah, make sure that you have your speakers arranged with a good sweet spot and the sound will be fantastic.

[Maniac]

Thanks guys! All's well, the install went off without a hitch. Got the latest Liveware first and bingo. That new digital output connector should come in handy!

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Celeron 300A@464 2.0V, Abit BH6 G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A, Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster Live Value Ver. 2, Viewsonic GT 775