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Old sound card/Need driver
Name: MM Date: March 13, 2003 at 17:14:29 Pacific OS: dos CPU/Ram: 4mb
Comment:
Does anyone know where I can find a dos driver for my sound card ES1898f. I have searched the net & only found Windows 95 & up drivers.
Name: JackG Date: March 13, 2003 at 21:15:54 Pacific
Reply:
ESS makes the Audio Chip set ES1898 and while it does not support the different cards that vendors sell, normally its generic drivers for each OS will work on these cards. The card vendor should supply the drivers.
ESS does provide a generic DOS driver config package that might/should work with all their Audio Chip sets. Check the following link page, under Audio ISA AudioDrive, first link "DOS setup utility for ISA AudioDrive and ...."
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