I need a simple, basic, SB Live driver

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Before you think ill of me, no I'm not slumming with Creative. This actually has nothing to do with recording at all. It just happens that I had to "nuke" (errase & rebuild) a computer at work today, which happens to have an old SB Live Value card in it. We keep a few of these around for executives who need to waste time listening to audio CDs & playing games & such. Well, I had to put Windows 98SE on this machine instead of XP - don't ask why, suffice to say I just had to.

So I go to Creative's site looking for a Win98 SB Live driver, and all they have are driver "updates", i.e. you have to install the Creative CD first. The CD that I have, which came with our crate of OEM SB Lives, installs a whole bunch of Creative programs & crap that I do not want, and do not want our employees to have. However there is no provision for a "custom" or "driver only" install. You get all or nothing.

Does anyone out there know where I can download just a bare-ass driver for a SB Live card in Win 98? I have to believe there is one out there some where...
 
OOPS ... I ended up answering my own question.

Turns out that the same Creative CD that has no selective software install DOES have a selective "de-install". So by running it a second time, I was able to tell it to un-install everything but the drivers, and now I have what I want. A "drivers only" install.

However, I would still be interested to see if anyone knows an alternate spot to download a plain hardware-only driver for a SB Live.
 
just like with any hardware / driver- if you manually install the driver you can browse the disk for drivers- they are on there somewhere- buried in a few subdirectories no doubt- when you put in a piece of hardware itll try to install it self- cancel that- go to the control panel- hardware- tell it what kind of device you want to install- it will ask you if you want windows to look for your new device- click have disk- browse your disk- its been a while but thats my recollection of W98- works like a charm so you can dodge all the other crap that comes on those disks
-J
 
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