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I recently did a full install of Windows XP Professional. At the same time installed a new sound board (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) and have been unable to get an7y sound since. The system says the board is there and it is enabled, etc., but no sound. When I try to use Sound Blaster I receive an error message that a required file CtSpRes.DLL cannot be found. It says to check to see if it is in the right directory. I have no idea where it is and what directory it should be in. Hopefully someone knows

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Hi, Mike.

My old Sound Blaster Live MP3+ works fine with WinXP. And I can't find a
file named CtSpRes.DLL anywhere on my HD. Google finds only 6 hits on that
filename and they don't look promising.

If you don't find an answer here, you might try the SoundBlaster newsgroups
on Creative's own news server: news.soundblaster.com

I'm not sure this will work, but it should if you are running WinXP and are
not blocked by something like a corporate firewall. Click here:
news://news.soundblaster.com/products.sound_blaster.live.music

That should start Outlook Express (WinXP's news reader), create the
SoundBlaster news account, subscribe you to the .live.music newsgroup, and
download the first 300 messages. From there, you can navigate to other
newsgroups if you need to.

Of course, you should also visit Creative's support website:
http://us.creative.com/support/ You may need to download an updated driver.
The latest file I see there for WinXP/Live! 5.1 is dated 12/24/03.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

Mike said:
I recently did a full install of Windows XP Professional. At the same
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time installed a new sound board (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) and have been
unable to get an7y sound since. The system says the board is there and it
is enabled, etc., but no sound. When I try to use Sound Blaster I receive
an error message that a required file CtSpRes.DLL cannot be found. It says
to check to see if it is in the right directory. I have no idea where it is
and what directory it should be in. Hopefully someone knows.
 
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