User guide

Troubleshooting 45
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Conflicts between
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our audio card and another peripheral device ma
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occur if
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our card and the other
device are set to use the same I/O address.
To resolve I/O conflicts, chan
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e the resource settin
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s of
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our audio card or the conflictin
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peripheral
device in
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our s
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stem usin
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Device Mana
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er in Windows.
If
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ou still do not know which card is causin
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the conflict, remove all cards except the audio card and
other essential cards (for example, disk controller and
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raphics cards). Add each card back until Device
Mana
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er indicates that a conflict has occurred.
To resolve hardware conflicts in Windows:
1. Click the Start button, point to Settin
g
s, and then click Control Panel.
2. In the Control Panel window, double-click the S
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stem icon.
3. In the S
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stem Properties dialo
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, click the Device Mana
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er tab.
4. Under the Sound, Video And Game Controllers entr
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, select the conflictin
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audio card driver—
indicated b
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an exclamation mark (!)—and click the Properties button.
5. In the Properties dialo
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, click the Resources tab.
6. Make sure that Use Automatic Settin
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s is selected, and click the OK button.
7. Restart
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our s
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stem to allow Windows 95/98 to reassi
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n resources to
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our audio card and/or the
conflictin
g
device.
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This occurs after
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ou remove an audio card from
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our computer after
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ou have successfull
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installed the
Sound Blaster Live! card. Windows is tr
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in
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to match the drivers to the removed audio card.
To solve this problem:
1. Lo
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on to
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our computer as Administrator.
2. Click the Start button, point to Settin
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s, and then click Control Panel.
3. Double-click the Multimedia icon, and then click the Devices tab.
4. In the list, under these entries:
• Audio Devices
• MIDI Devices and Instruments
remove all items other than:
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