Upgrading Sound Card on EMachines 410

jooools · 09-15-2007, 06:20 AM

Hi

I'm trying to install my soundblaster Platinum Live Soundcard onto another computer as my old one has crashed. When I install all the hardware and start the PC, it hangs. It seems the problem is with the soundcard PCI board as when that is disconnected, it finds and wants to install the other piece of hard ware (the Live Drive).

I've disabled the old soundcard in the BIOs settings but it still won't work. Is there something more I need to do (in device manager?).

The PC is an emachines 410 running XP SP2, 2.40 Ghz, Celeron CPU 512 ram.

thanks in advance!

dai · 09-15-2007, 11:48 AM

try another pci slot

jooools · 09-15-2007, 12:55 PM

there's 2 slots - I've tried them both.

09-15-2007, 06:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
jooools Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 69 OS: Vista Home Premium	Upgrading Sound Card on EMachines 410 Hi I'm trying to install my soundblaster Platinum Live Soundcard onto another computer as my old one has crashed. When I install all the hardware and start the PC, it hangs. It seems the problem is with the soundcard PCI board as when that is disconnected, it finds and wants to install the other piece of hard ware (the Live Drive). I've disabled the old soundcard in the BIOs settings but it still won't work. Is there something more I need to do (in device manager?). The PC is an emachines 410 running XP SP2, 2.40 Ghz, Celeron CPU 512 ram. thanks in advance!

09-15-2007, 11:48 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,702 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Upgrading Sound Card on EMachines 410 try another pci slot __________________

09-15-2007, 12:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
jooools Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 69 OS: Vista Home Premium	Re: Upgrading Sound Card on EMachines 410 there's 2 slots - I've tried them both.