well, a lot of the information i'm going to provide is probably unnecessary, but i'm not sure where exactly the problem originates, so better too much than too little i suppose
as of this morning i had 3 PCI devices in 3 PCI slots. in slot 1, a wireless network adapter, in slot 2 a sound blaster audio card, and in slot 3 a graphics card. this computer is my old dell mind you, and its falling apart at the seems.. when i turned it on, it seemed to not see the network card at all. this had happened before recently, and i figured i would just re-re-install it. the process i was going to use was: uninstall software, turn off computer, uninstall card, turn on computer, install software, turn off computer, install card. thats how it worked last time. well, i uninstalled the software, turned off the computer, and upon trying to turn it back on, i had no picture. i unplugged my monitor from my graphics card, into my integrated slot, and it worked. my device manager didn't see the graphics card, so i swapped its location. moving it from slot 3, to 1, (where the network card i just removed had been.) i had picture..so i was beginning to think something was wrong with PCI slot 3. i needed graphics and an internet connection pressingly, so i took the sound card out of slot 2, and put the network card in there. all was well (except of course i had no sound). so afterwards, i figured i would try to put the sound card in my mysteriously malfunctioning slot. much to my surprise, windows gave me a found new hardware wizard upon startup. it couldn't auto-find any drivers, so i went to sound blaster's website to look for some. the original drivers for the Live! card don't seem to still be there, so i downloaded "LiveDrvUni-Pack." i began the installation, and it told me it could not detect any sound blaster hardware on my system, and to ensure that it had been properly installed before i could install the software. Now, I'm not sure if this is because the PCI slot is indeed malfunctioning. Windows seemed to be able to detect it. I think it can't detect any sound blaster hardware because it doesn't have the original drivers to identify it as such. anyone have any suggestions, or driver download locations? sorry for the wall-o-text.
as of this morning i had 3 PCI devices in 3 PCI slots. in slot 1, a wireless network adapter, in slot 2 a sound blaster audio card, and in slot 3 a graphics card. this computer is my old dell mind you, and its falling apart at the seems.. when i turned it on, it seemed to not see the network card at all. this had happened before recently, and i figured i would just re-re-install it. the process i was going to use was: uninstall software, turn off computer, uninstall card, turn on computer, install software, turn off computer, install card. thats how it worked last time. well, i uninstalled the software, turned off the computer, and upon trying to turn it back on, i had no picture. i unplugged my monitor from my graphics card, into my integrated slot, and it worked. my device manager didn't see the graphics card, so i swapped its location. moving it from slot 3, to 1, (where the network card i just removed had been.) i had picture..so i was beginning to think something was wrong with PCI slot 3. i needed graphics and an internet connection pressingly, so i took the sound card out of slot 2, and put the network card in there. all was well (except of course i had no sound). so afterwards, i figured i would try to put the sound card in my mysteriously malfunctioning slot. much to my surprise, windows gave me a found new hardware wizard upon startup. it couldn't auto-find any drivers, so i went to sound blaster's website to look for some. the original drivers for the Live! card don't seem to still be there, so i downloaded "LiveDrvUni-Pack." i began the installation, and it told me it could not detect any sound blaster hardware on my system, and to ensure that it had been properly installed before i could install the software. Now, I'm not sure if this is because the PCI slot is indeed malfunctioning. Windows seemed to be able to detect it. I think it can't detect any sound blaster hardware because it doesn't have the original drivers to identify it as such. anyone have any suggestions, or driver download locations? sorry for the wall-o-text.