Resolving I/O 

Conflicts between your audio card and another peripheral device may occur if your card and the 

other device are set to use the same I/O address.

Conflicts

To resolve I/O conflicts, change the resource settings of your audio card or the conflicting 

peripheral device in your system using Device Manager in Windows 95/98.

If you still do not know which card is causing the conflict, remove all cards except the audio card 

and other essential cards (for example, disk controller and graphics cards). Add each card back 

until Device Manager indicates that a conflict has occurred.

To resolve hardware conflicts in Windows 95/98:

You can also refer to the 

Troubleshooting section in the 

1. Click 

Start

  > 

Settings

  > 

Control Panel

.

Help file of Windows 95/98.

2. In the 

Control Panel

 window, double click the 

System

 icon.

3. In the 

System Properties

 dialog box, click the 

Device Manager

 tab.

4. Under the Sound, Video And Game Controllers entry, select the conflicting audio card 

driver indicated by an exclamation mark (!) and click the 

Properties

 button.

5. In the Properties dialog box, click the 

Resources

 tab.

6. Make sure that the 

Use automatic settings

 check box is selected, and click the 

OK

 button.

7. Restart your system to allow Windows 95/98 to reassign resources to your audio card and/

or the conflicting device. 

Problems in 

A Service Control Manager error message appears with one or more other error messages 

Windows NT 4.0

at system restart.

This occurs after you remove an audio card from your computer after you have successfully 

installed the Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 card. Windows is trying to match the drivers to the 

removed audio card.

To solve this problem:

1. Log on to your computer as Administrator.

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