Creative Audio Card

[DebbieG]

Whenever I shut down Windows 98 SE, it stops with the following
message:

Locate free PCI Resources for Creative Audio Card
Press any key to continue

and then it shuts down.

I read somewhere that I could edit the DOSSTART.BAT file to take care
of this. I put a REM in front of

C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

which was the only line except @echo off that wasn't already REMed. I
saved the file. Did a shutdown and the message still appeared. I
went back into DOSSTART.BAT and the REM that I put in had disappeared.
I then REMed it out again, moved the line down with the other REMed
lines, and saved it. I immediately edited the file again and all the
changes I made were gone.

Why can't I save changes to this file?
Or does anyone have a solution to fix this annoying but harmless
problem?

Thanks,
Debbie

[MasterBlaster]

Post by DebbieG
Whenever I shut down Windows 98 SE, it stops with the following
Locate free PCI Resources for Creative Audio Card
Press any key to continue
and then it shuts down.
I read somewhere that I could edit the DOSSTART.BAT file to take care
of this. I put a REM in front of
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
saved the file. Did a shutdown and the message still appeared. I
went back into DOSSTART.BAT and the REM that I put in had disappeared.
I then REMed it out again, moved the line down with the other REMed
lines, and saved it. I immediately edited the file again and all the
changes I made were gone.
Why can't I save changes to this file?
Or does anyone have a solution to fix this annoying but harmless
problem?

http://www.the-predator.com/dell/win1-0.html#win1-0-14

win1-0-14: How do I resolve the error "Locate Free PCI Resources for
Creative Sound Card" or "Could Not Install Service Vectors" that may occur
with the SoundBlaster Live! Value Sound Card in Windows® 98?

Problem

If you have SoundBlaster Live Value Sound Card on your system, when you
shut down Windows 98 one of the following errors may appear:

Locate Free PCI Resources for Creative Sound Card

Could Not Install Service Vectors

Discussion:

The error occurs due to insufficient available Interrupt Requests (IRQs) to
install the SoundBlaster Emulation. In order to provide compatibility for older
DOS-based applications, Creative installs a driver that emulates the original
SoundBlaster sound card. This device appears as Creative SB Live! SB16
Emulation in the Device Manager.

If you have added additional hardware to your computer that requires IRQs,
your computer may not be able to reserve an IRQ for the SB Live! SB16 Emulation
on shutdown.

If you do not have any older MS-DOS software, such as a game, that requires
sound in MS-DOS only, you can disable the SB16 Emulation in the Device Manager.

Solution:

To disable Creative SB Live! SB16 Emulation, perform the following steps:

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

The Control Panel window appears.

Double-click the System icon.

Click the Device Manager tab.

Click the plus (+) sign beside the Creative Miscellaneous Devices entry.

Double-click Creative SB Live! SB16 Emulation.

The Creative SB Live! SB16 Emulation Properties window appears.

Near the bottom, click the checkbox next to Disable in this hardware
profile to place a check in it.

Click OK.

The System Properties window reappears.

The icon beside Creative SB Live! SB16 Emulation should appear to have a
red x on it. This indicates that it has been disabled.

The error message will no longer appear.