Thanks for the feedback BarryG. No Norton, Using AVG Free, ZoneAlarm Free,
Spybot & AdAware

Still waiting to get the back off to check if it's a PCI card or not

Delboy

"BarryG" wrote in message
...
H Dellboy,

I too had a SoundBlaster PCI128 card which behaved erratically. After much
hair pulling and gnashing of teeth, it turned out to be the Norton AV Ver
4 I
was using. It was a Win95/98 version which simply was NOT compatible with
WinME. WinME is NOT Win9x.
Are you perchance using Norton AV (any version)? Try disabling it to see
if
that fixes your sound.

Good Luck.
BarryG

"Delboy" wrote:

Thanks Mart

Will give this a whirl as well. Will get back to the newsgroup with any
feedback (neg or pos)

Cheers all

Delboy

"Mart" wrote in message
...
WDM = Windows Driver Model

If in the UK, try
http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppor...ds/welcome.asp
and 'select your product' (Sound Blaster - Others - Sound Blaster (R)
PCI
128), then your OS (WinMe) and Language.

Note the 1st Driver, under Overview - Show Details, there is a
reference
to
distortion issues.

Have a play with the various drivers on offer. But I would suggest you
always 'Remove' the old (previous) drivers first using Device Manager
in
Safe Mode.

Mart




"Delboy" wrote in message
...
Hi Rick

Thanks for the feedback.

Sound is normally monitored (listened) via Time supplied OEM desktop
speakers direct or thro' h/phones from the h/phone socket on the
speaker,
but sometimes I record tapes from the line out jack to a cassette
deck.
(get
the same sound/no sound as via the speakers, so it's not the built
in
amp
in
the speakers) Also if sound is dead or dying, I cannot use Creative
Recorder
from mic, line in or stereo mix sources.

What does WDM mean anyway, is it a stripped down card and/or drivers
or
what? (simple please, I am a bear of little brain)
Do you think it might be a driver problem?

Why I thought the card might be hard wired was that when I installed
an
ethernet card, the sound card was not in one of the expansion slots
(as
I
recall, but will take the back off to double check)

Does any of this change your thoughts?

Will get back when I have taken the back off

Delboy

"Rick T" wrote in message
...
Delboy wrote:
Hi out there
Howdy.

I am having problems with sound. Each time I boot up, one of
three
things
will happen:-
1 No problem, sound ok (sometimes after a while sound will
degenerate
thro'
2 to 3 (below)
2 Distorted sound
3 No sound. (these last two start right from the opening Windows
start-up
chime)

I have a Creative SoundBlaster PCI 128 (WDM) OEM sound card which
I
believe
is hard wired onto the mother board and is about 3 1/2 years old
supplied
with a Time Computers machine.

Not "hard wired", Creative doesn't license their technology that
way;
most likely a PCI card.


Question:-
1 Can the card be replaced by a PCI card and the original be
permanently
disabled?

You can just yank it and put a newer one in.

(simply "removing" in control panel reinstalls on next boot with
no improvement)

You can use"hardware profiles" and Disable the devices. (of course
now
you have no sound at all, and it's a non-sequitur since I'm sure
its a
removable card anyways)

as this is probably the cheapest solution

I am convinced it is the card as monitoring thro' the line out
socket
gives
me the same effects.

How do you normally monitor it?


Does anyone out there have any advice?

*non* WDM drivers. (no offence against WDM per se)... you may have
to
root through your original Creative CD (if you have one) or go to
their
site and download a set.


Rick