🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all.  I received my SB Live Value today and put it in.  It came up, but
Windows gave me a message that my 3Com ISA Ethernet card wasn't working.  I
ignored it for awhile and fired up Unreal to check it out.  Wow, great
sound.  What a difference from my S70!  Quake 2 sounded the same.  OK, lets
see whats wrong with the NIC.  Nothing...no IRQ conflicts, mem conflicts,
nothing.  The NIC was using IRQ 9 all by itself.  Live comes out, NIC works
again.  Put it back, move NIC around still NG.  2 hrs on phone with tech
support, no answers.  The guy on the phone says they see this problem a lot.
They suggested moving my IRQ's around , and I did....nothing would work.
The Live card is going back.  Too much of a pain.  Now to some questions.
My Sonic Impact S70 has 2 sets of jacks.  One stereo line out and one
buffered line out.  I have my speakers connected to one jack and headphones
to the other.  They are both always connected.  At night I just turn off the
speakers and use the headphones when I play games.  I set up the Live to do
this, but it wont work.  The 2nd set of speakers are rear type sound.  I
couldn't get "full sound" to come out of both sets of jacks.  Is this common
with this type of sound card?  I plan on getting the MX300.  I hope it goes
better than the Live did.  Hey Creative, you really should get that bug
worked out!  The reason I'm getting a new card is the S70 is going into
another PC.  As an alternate plan, I was looking at the Sonic Impact S90.
It seems to be a better card than the S70, and has the same jack config as
the S70.  Its dirt cheap too.  Any comments on this card?  Thanks for the
help.

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