two sblive cards?

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i'm using a SBLive! with an Asus A7V333 board, Athlon XP 1700+, in windows xp pro .... i just found another sblive! card lyring around, and thought it would be interesting to run the two cards at the same time, so i could have 4 inputs. (i realize that soundblaster is not a high-end card, but for now, that's ok. i'm just tinkering.)

so i plugged in the second card. the computer boots, and XP starts up with a little "New Hardware Found" tray icon. First it says it found a Multimedia Controller, and then it updates itself and says SBLive! And then the computer restarts. No prompts, no nothing. Like some kind of hardware error. I've moved the boards around to different PCI slots, and it always does this exact same thing.

Do I have any options? Is it just not going to work? Has anyone tried this with the same/different results?

Thanks,
- jacob
 
Have you tried log into safe mode ? I guess it can be fixed in controll panel to change the IRQ setting... can you do that ?
 
Creative themselves say that running two of their brand cards is impossible.

Some people have had mixed luck using the kx project hacked drivers. Go take a look at their website if you want to try.

Personally, I'm running a 24-bit soundcard alongside my SBLive and am having great success; no problems at all. Do yourself a favor and get upgraded sound to use with the SBLive's soundfont/midi synth capabilities.

tim
 
oh well, guess it won't work. yes, a 24-bit card will be one of my next purchases, but i was just toying around.

in general, with a two-card setup, can you monitor both cards' inputs at once? i.e. if i were to have two 2-track cards, with monitor speakers hooked up to one card, and i was recording 4 simultaneous inputs, could i monitor all four through my speakers? i know that once you've produced a WAV or whatnot, it's not a problem. but what about while it's coming in? (i have a cheap little mixing board, so i can't route my monitors through that.)
 
jrosenstein said:
oh well, guess it won't work. yes, a 24-bit card will be one of my next purchases, but i was just toying around.

in general, with a two-card setup, can you monitor both cards' inputs at once? i.e. if i were to have two 2-track cards, with monitor speakers hooked up to one card, and i was recording 4 simultaneous inputs, could i monitor all four through my speakers? i know that once you've produced a WAV or whatnot, it's not a problem. but what about while it's coming in? (i have a cheap little mixing board, so i can't route my monitors through that.)
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You can't run 2 cards like that because there is no way to sync each card's clock signal. The longer they record/play together, the more they will drift apart.
 
so you can't record from two soundcards simultaneously at all? or you just can't monitor both at once
 
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