michaelm

Hello there guys. I'm posting here because I'm going crazy and need a quick solution.
First my rig:
win98se
pentium 3 900 mhz
512 mb ram
sounb blaster live

Everything worked ok since I tried to install asio4all drivers which couldn't work because they didn't find any wdm drivers. I installed then the KX drivers but made the awfull mistake that I didn't uninstall the old sb drivers first. Now I have tons of conflicts and even winamp doesn't work. Being a beginner, can you tell me how to resume a normal KX playable situation?
In the meantime I uninstalled everything - KX and asio4all - but still no sound.

In the system - properties - hardware, I can see that as a multimedia device there is still the kx thing even if I uninstalled everything........I'm kind of lost at the moment.....

Hope to read from you soon

bests

Michael, Italy

dj_stick

run drivercleaner for both kX and CL drivers in safe mode, then install kX

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michaelm

Thank you Chris for your very quick help. I'm downloading Drivercleaner pro from DriverHeaven site and will give it a try. Also, do you think that I will still need Asio4all drivers?

Thanks again

Michael

dj_stick

no, just use kX's ASIO driver

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TravelRec.

You donīt need any other asio drivers since kX supports low latency asio by itself. Try to install the 3537 version if youīre on 98SE, it runs quite stable. Donīt install the betas of 3538, they may cause problems with the old OS. You need to reboot your machine twice or more after installing kX, donīt let you fool by error messages. If nothing helps, try a manually installing of the drivers first (so that the system can detect your card).
Greetings!

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michaelm

Thanks Chris and Travelrec for your help. Is the manual installation hard to perform?
Shall I uninstall the card itself and let the pc detect it? I can then let the pc see the kx drivers.
Remember I'm a beginner and scared about manual installations....

Thanks again

Michael

michaelm

Chris, Travelrec: no way I cannot have KX drivers to work, still no mixer, no anything. I tried the manual installation but with the same results. I would like you to check for some pics but I cannot upload them because they are claimed to be too large, just 14 kb. Anyway they refere to the same thing: after boot has finished, an error windows tells me an audio board inizialization audio error occur. Reinstall the drivers....if you didn't boot your pc then do so otherwise if installation is still on ignore message (hope I translated good from italian).

This is the only thing I can say so far. Any clue on the solution?

Thanks

Michael, Italy

geraldandreas

there are 2 kx.sys in the 3537 folder, one is kx.sys and the other is kx98.sys. i think you got the wrong file in your systemfolder. delete the kx.sys in the windows/system32 folder, copy the kx98.sys in this folder and rename it to kx.sys, i think this will help you.
you have also to set the hardwareaccerlation full (settings/sound&multimedia or similar)

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Gerald
1; Core2-Q9450, x38-Mobo, 2048mb, 2x SATA-HD, SB0092+LD, XP/sp3
2; acer 613txv, p3/1000, 256mb, SB0530 zs nb, xp/sp1


KX-help in german, prepare the pc, install KX
www.gadmusic.net

dj_stick

also, before installing the drivers, you can rename kx.sys to kx.bat, and kx98.sys to kx.sys in the setup folder, and let the setup app automatically install it for you…
i might write up a batch file to automatically do this - i'll ask eugene if he wants me to

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Jack - BG

I'm from Sofia, Bulgaria and i have the same problem with KX drivers like the italian guy. I tryed this with renaming files but - no change. I don't now is it imortant or not but I want to say that my sound card is Audigy 2 OEM, model : SB0400. The chip on the board is CA0108-IAT.

I hope someone to help me, if it's posible.

Thanks in advance

michaelm

Thank you Chris again and Gerald. I'll try what you wrote and will update you on the results.....

Bests

Michael, Italy

dj_stick

your card is the Audigy 2 Value - please check the relevant threads

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michaelm

Chris, Gerald, I tried to do what you guys wrote but there is something strange: I don't have any KX98.sys in the mentioned folder. Eventually it is me that did the mistake in installing the whole thing even if I just clicked on the exe file.

I'm going crazy......any new advice???

Michael, Italy

BODYPRINT

I've always had trouble installing on older systems, the best way I found was to install from device manager and do a driver upgrade.
I know you have probably tried this already and I don't want to sound demeaning, but make sure you follow these steps exactly...

choose Install from list or specific location
choose Don't Search etc...
If the list of devices comes up, choose Sound, Video and Game Controllers
choose Have Disk...
Browse to the folder containing your kX installation, something like
c:\program files\kx project\3537\kx.inf
This should install the correct system and mixer files correctly.

I know this has been covered, but I thought I would try and simplify it for you.
Good luck, hope it helps.

michaelm

Chris, Gerald, just an update:
I unistalled everything again plus did a deep uninstallation (even from autoexec.bat) of everything that has to do with SB. Now, in the kx folder I've found the file kx98.sys to be placed in the system32 folder in the place of kx.sys (of course after renaming it). Did it, rebooted but still no success: same initialization error and no mixwer or device from kx installation. If I go over to system hardware device manager I see that under audio, game there is kx either for the sb and for joystick but still error in initializing the audio card.

Any advice.....?

Michael, Italy