Need help with Soundblaster Live!

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Walter Mitty

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I can't seem to get this to work. I can't hear anything when I play a CD. I don't even know whether the sound is getting to the soundcard or not! Also, after trying to install the software twice, i still can't pull up the mixer because it says I have not installed the plug-ins. If someone could help (any help) I would appreciate it very much. Thanks
 
Can you hear anything from the card?

Do you have the cable leading from the CD-ROM drive audio output to the SB Live CD-ROM audio input? If you do, the CD-ROM device is probably muted in the mixer, but you say you can't get at the mixer....

I don't have a clue about the message about plug-ins. What software are you trying to load? The LiveWare stuff? Something else? Plug-ins in the DAW world are usually effects and stuff, but then there are also plug-ins of a different nature in web browsers and graphics programs too... is this the Creative mixer or the Windows mixer? Tyr to see if you can open the Window mixer -- double-click on the little yellow speaker icon near the lower right corner of the window (the "system tray").

-AlChuck
 
Yes the cable from the CDrom is connected to the soundcard and when I stick my headphones into one of the jacks I get a distorted left channel signal. Bad cable?
I am trying to get Creative's mixer going. but it says i haven't installed the plug-ins.
I have opened the windows mixer and nothing is muted. Now, I have a crappy compaq 4840 with a chessy EES soundcard that is mounted inside. I don't need to do anything with this right? thanks
 
Re the other cheesy soundcard -- well, you probably want to disable it. Could be part of your problems. Is it on a card, or built in to the motherboard? If it's on a card, take it out and remove it from the system through the Control Panel/System utility...

Re CD-ROM sound -- I don't know if your cable's bad, but take it off, look at the little connectors and make sure the wires connect to them and that their are no breaks... and be sure you plug it in the right way (though it might have "keyed" connectors that you can only plug in the right way).

Good luck!
 
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