I can't install both soundblaster and 2 more gigs of RAM. Anyone want to try to explain this oddity?

Question

So here's my setup

500W Antec power supply
AMD BE-2300 chip
ECS NFORCE6 motherboard
IDE controller PCI card
Four hard drives
Radeon 2600XT video card
2 GIGs of DDR2 800 memory (2 DIMMs)
Soundblaster Live (old card from 2001)

I installed 2 more GIGs of memory (2 DIMMs) and long story short, the system becomes unstable in Vista UNLESS I unistall the sound card.

Does anyone even want to try to explain this?

To be clear, the system works fine with the Soundblaster and only 2 gigs of RAM. It's only when I install the additional 2 gigs that I have to remove the Soundblaster (either that or risk frequent blue screens.)

How could a sound card be conflicting with memory?!

Answer 1

Soundcard driver probably conflicting with one of your startups.

Uninstall soundcard driver. Then Click start, click Run, type msconfig, ok. Select Startup tab, disable all, apply. PC will restart. Reinstall the sound card driver. Afterwards, run msconfig to enable all your startups again. Worked for me and some of the others here at YA.