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Issues with Soundblaster

Hi everyone, I have recently installed a Soundblaster Live! CT 4870 (value) in my windows 98se machine and now it refuses to boot. It booted for the first time no problems, I installed the SBL CT 4670 drivers as that is the model name given to me by the seller, but it turns out it was a 4870. I installed the drivers for the 4670, and it has since refused to boot when I have the card in the PC.

At first every time it 'detected new hardware' it bluescreened, but now it seems to freeze when it detects the midi device. I have uninstalled the card and the machine boots fine, I tried deleting the software installed by the disc on the C drive but upon reinsertion it freezes again.

I really hope there is a way to circumvent this, I really do not want to boot 98 again, and have to install all the other drivers from scratch. The specs are a:

Geforce FX 5200,

512 mb Ram

Pentium 4

(Previously) Creative Soundblaster PCI128

Thanks!

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