SB Live and USR Wireless PCI network card problem....

Corn · Post by **Corn** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 12:14 pm

This is going to drive me to drink.

My friend asked me to recommend a wireless networking setup and I recommended the USR wireless router with the wireless PCI card. My friend's comptuter is an old machine that I had built for him 4 years ago and consists of:

Windows XP
Abit BH6 mobo
Celeron 400mhz
128 meg sdram
Creative SB Live
and the USR wireless PCI adapter.

The USR adapter and the Live simply do not want to play nice together. Seperately, everything works, but as soon as both are in the system together, it locks up as soon as the hardware is detected and the drivers start to load. Doesn't matter if it's loading the drivers for the Live or the USR adapter (tested to see if I could determine which actual piece of software/drivers was the culprit).

This is not an ACPI compatible motherboard (that I'm aware of) and is listed under the device manager as a "standard PC", not an ACPI machine.

I've tried playing musical PCI slots thinking that they just didn't like sharing resources, unfortunately I've tried every slot combination with no luck.

I'm out of ideas short of chucking the Live! Anything obvious (or not obvious) I'm missing?

blade · Post by **blade** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 12:41 pm

Those live cards have caused many conflicts for me and others.

I don't have a solution to your problem other than getting rid of the live and getting something like a c-media sound card instead. They sound better to me and don't have the conflicts the live cards have.

Just found a site that sells the 4 channel version for $5.
http://www.cputopia.com/cputopia-c-medi ... -card.html

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:10 pm

I agree - for $15 or so at the local computer shop you can get a C-Media. Sounds good, no hassles.