Did you test the sound card under dos. Run the test utility (SBTEST.EXE or SBEGO.EXE). If you know your sound card is working try deleting the C:\privateer directory and reinstall it. I change the IRQ on my SBLive card but privateer would not acceipt the new IRQ. This was my solution. If this did not help, then post your autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Here a example of my sound settings.
rem ;;The below lines are for the SBLive sound card;;
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:F MODE:0
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 J200
SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
[Edited by Johnl12 on 04-15-2001 at 22:24]