I have a Sound Blaster Live! card and found this alternative to Creative's driver for XP. The main advantage is that it supports ASIO... What is ASIO anyway and what difference would it make in Cakewalk Sonar?
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ASIO is Audio stream input output, a protocol for low-latency digital audio specified by Steinberg and WDM stands for Windows Driver Model
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You don't need a driver if you are using Windows XP.  That is sort of a generic driver, and is automatically installed by Windows.
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If you had sound before you probably just lost the driver for it. You don't need a card. If you bought the PC new look in the owners manual to see what make sound device you have and reinstall the driver. With XP it's on your Hard Drive already, just pick it from the list. If it's an on-board sound chip you may have to go into the setup utility (in your bios) and turn on Sound Blaster Legacy support. If all else fails see if the speakers are plugged in.
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dunno if this really helps, but I think is worth checking out:\nhttp://webtips.dan.info/sounds.html\n\njust as a side note, the <bgsound> tag avoids the ActiveX, but on the other hand, doens't allow the user to control the music and are forced to shut off their speakers if they don't feel like hearing the music.
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A keyboard sequencer is great but not nessisary!Your computer will do just fine,Cake walk pro is a great midi sequencer.Lol I first started sequencing midi files when all we had was an old Atari.Musicians loved it because it had a midi interface built in.on that I used cake walk,it installed from a floppy disk and Dr. T was great as you could really tweak each note,velocity etc.
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Absolutely!\n\nA Creative Labs Sound Blaster Extigy is an excellent external sound card with tons of extras - but more realistically you can usually find an external sound card (a simple 16-bit 2-channel card, probably from Santa Cruz or another company) for around $30 or so.\n\ntry http://www.newegg.com - they're an excellent company where you might be able to find what you want.
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Internal sound cards.  Now, if you have a laptop there are some special options avialable for you.  The Creative Audigy 2ZS for laptops comes in a PCMCIA flavor.  If you have a desktop the best choices are the Creative Audigy 2, 4 or X-Fi Extreme Music with the X-Fi being the best possible card you can get your hands on today.\n\nAn external sound card, to my knowledge does not have a dedicated audio processor so it is relying on your CPU to do most of the work but it does manage to output better sound than the built-in card will.  So you have my reccomendation for the laptop and do not look elsewhere for a desktop card besides Creative.
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Here is the driver for your sound card. http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=222049\n\nAnd i'm sorry to say that there aren't any free device scan anymore.\n\nBut in case you're interested in buying this service in the future. Buy this one, this is by far the best one.\nhttp://www.driveragent.com/
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i suggest to find an CD for Audio Driver Software ...\nor\nyou can go to intel.com...maybe u can find it there\ni had this prob b4 ,,, i didnt find the realtik software
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if u mean it is working on 2000 but not on xp then you have the wrong driver installed on xp so just install the right driver. if u dont know which driver it is just go to 2000 and the device manager find the name of the audio controller and then search for xp driver.
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Infrared. Radar. Sonar. does that help?
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Generally, You will not see(actually, hear) a major difference.\nThere are some benefits, with the Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit, you can convert your old records and tapes into digital audio, 7.1 surround, and EAX® ADVANCED HD technology(http://www.soundblaster.com/resources/read.asp?articleid=53831&cat=1).\nYes, you can connect your front jacks to the card.\n\nI would always opt for NON onboard anything (video, sound, etc.)
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The card probably just needs drivers that aren't included with XP.  Just run the CD which came with the card, or download the driver installation files from the manufacturer and run that...
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http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp\nhttp://forms.analog.com/Form_Pages/soundMAX/soundMAXtechSupport.html\nhere are the driver links, not sure if you have the laatest, you didn't specify which os you are using.\nThe optical drive drivers are going to use the windows drivers, no updating necessary\nHope this helps
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Windows 98 is more limited in it's ability to allocate plug and play resources that new versions (Win2K and XP).  It's more limited into the resources it can share and allocate.\n\nThe previous answer is correct - most USB 2.0 devices work just fine (but slower) in USB 1.1 ports - assuming you have them.  If that's not an option...\n\nIf the machine boots with either card (just not both), I'd do a little experiment.  I'd boot it twice (with one card at a time), and write down the IRQ, memory address, and DMA channels each uses.  Dollars to doughnuts, one of those thee items is the SAME on both cards.  Then, read the instructions on the new USB card you have, and see if it can be installed using a non-conflicting IRQ, address, or DMA.  If it can, install it FIRST with the new parameters, make sure it works, then shut down the machine and install the sound card.  Then they should both work... I hope.  If they don't...\n\nUpgrading to XP will probably fix the problem, but introduce a lot of other ones.  Another option is leave the USB card in the mahine and buy a USB sound card (I have a SoundBlaster MP3) that will plug into your USB card.
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Codecs are really an addition to the soundcard that is already installed on your computer.  You should un-install, then re-install the drivers for your soundcard if you are not getting output.  As for the codecs, the files are installed in your window's system folder, and are not to be copied manually.  I would look for a 'setup' or 'install' file on the cd, and run that once you get your sound back.
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I am assuming that you installed XP over an earlier version as I am reading into your question that you had sound before XP so that also rules out having the speakers incorrectly hooked up.  Go to start-control panel-system (the icon that looks like a computer) and run the hardware wizard.  If the hardware is listed but has a question mark you may just have to reload the software.  I would first check for updated software as you may be using an incompatible driver for your sound card.