Sound card recognized, but nonfunctional

[Dreamstalker]

Mainboard is Asus A8V Deluxe. I was using the onboard audio until
recently when it inexplicably failed.

Purchased a Soundblaster Live 24-bit card. After some battling with
the drivers (some driver software was detected as keyloggers among
other things), I got it installed.

I still have no audio however. I disabled the omboard sound in both
device manager (WinXP) and syatem bios; I still have a few [standard
system] devices listed under sound (audio codecs, legacy audio
drivers, legacy video capture devices, media control devices and video
codecs). There are no reported IRQ conflicts with the sound card. Do
I also need to disable the legacy audio drivers and audio codecs
(which I assume are running off the motherboard) for the SB to work?

 

[JAD]

turn off ALL antivirus and spyware software before installing any creative
sound card drivers.
remove all headings under 'sound and game devices' from safe mode

 

[BigJIm]

check your memory and make sure it is seated properly