Legacy Devices Are Not Loading

mike65

I installed the KX Project drivers and they did'nt work for some reason, so I un-installed them but they have left two virtual hardware items in the system and they are apparently hogging the resorces that my Soundblaster card should use (I guess). When I delete them and reboot windows immediately re-installed them!

Can I move the device I/O and so allow windows to load SB device drivers or is there another method?

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Mike.

Villain

I take it you did the following to uninstall:

Execute: Start Menu - Programs - kX Project - Uninstall or Re-install kX Audio Driver (Version xxxx) - and click 'Remove'. After the driver is removed, uninstall kX Project installation files by choosing 'Uninstall kX Project Package (Version xxxx)'

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mike65

As far as I recall (this was late last night which proberly was'nt the best time to be tinkering).

Mike.

Villain

Have you stopped the kx-startup in msconfig?

mike65

Yep. I've decided to leave the devices in place but disabled in hardware and reboot, see what happens. Back in a few mins (hopefully!)

That did'nt work but I spotted the following in the PCI MUlitmedia Audio Device panel

Input/Output Range 0000 - 001F used by:
Motherboard resources
Input/Output Range 0000 - 001F used by:
Direct memory access controller

So I guess I need to reassign the device to another I/O range which has no conflicts. I hate software.

Mike.

mike65

Did'nt work, are there any propellorheads out there?

Mike.

Villain

Sounds like you to start searching the registry and manually removing entries to me?

mike65

I did wonder about that myself.

Mike.

Villain

Or download a reg cleaner although you need to be careful it could mess up some other 3rd party driver or software you have installed. I'd say delete the files assocatied with KK C:\Program Files\kX Project\3535 is the deafult location then search the registry for "KK" could take a while but should solve the problem.

mike65

I went through the registry and got rid of the KX values but no difference.

I'm going to move the soundblaster card to a new slot and see if that helps.

Mike.

mike65

That did'nt work, went from IRQ 10 to IRQ 9 and the KX devices tried to load again demanding driver software. I've deleted the devices in the device manager and am going to reinstall KX Project (no Soundblaster drivers present).

edit> re-installed and then uninstalled and rebooted - success! Plug and play recognised Soundblaster and prompted CD for files. However not all were found on CD so I've got sound but strangly the mixer is not working completely, the sound levels using "wave/direct sound" input are about 6-8 db too quiet at "full volume". CD input is fine.


Mike.

mike65

Did a full re-install of Soundblaster Live from the CD set-up his time and bingo all is well at last. Except none of my soft synth hosts can find ASIO drivers which is odd.

Mike.