Replacing a Soundcard

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BRH

I want to replace my existing SoundBlaster Live soundcard with a Turtle
Beach Santa Cruz card. I want to be sure that all remnants of the
existing card are gone from my system before installing the new card.

What's the best procedure to follow to accomplish this?

Thanks!
 
L

Live For The One Die For The One

HMMM the best is to format your disc and reinstall from scratch.

But you could unistall the drives of the Live reboot and then shutdown
and instal the new card restart and it shoudl auto dectect install
drives if XP has them if not install the drives manualy AND then you
will have a new sound card working i hope.

bye.

Though the format option is the best bet to be realy realy sure, good
to do every six months or so, but with XP i have had very rare reasons
to reinstall.
 
M

Malke

Live said:
HMMM the best is to format your disc and reinstall from scratch.

But you could unistall the drives of the Live reboot and then shutdown
and instal the new card restart and it shoudl auto dectect install
drives if XP has them if not install the drives manualy AND then you
will have a new sound card working i hope.

Though the format option is the best bet to be realy realy sure, good
to do every six months or so, but with XP i have had very rare reasons
to reinstall.

*THIS IS TERRIBLE ADVICE* from Live..etc.! I don't normally commit the
"typing in capitals" sin, but I really wanted to get your attention.
Just go to Add/Remove Programs and remove the drivers and programs
connected with your SBLive card. Then shut down the machine and
physically remove the card. At that point, I like to restart the
machine without the new card just to go back in and be sure that there
are no entries left in Add/Remove Programs and in Device Manager. Then
install your new Santa Cruz card in the machine, following the
instructions that came with the card. Generally, you would just shut
down, physically put the card in the computer, restart, and then
install the drivers and any other related software, but you should
always read the manual first.

Malke
 

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