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Compaq Business Audio Driver
Name: Souta (by souta95) Date: January 13, 2005 at 06:02:18 Pacific OS: WFW 3.11 CPU/Ram: P 60/24Mb
Comment:
Does anyone know where I can get win 3.x drivers for the Compaq Business audio sound card.
Name: rogerashley Date: January 13, 2005 at 06:11:16 Pacific
Reply:
Compaq do not make sound chips, if you can find the make and model of the Compaq then go to sypport at www.hp.com and look for the drivers for your model.
Alternatively go to www.hwinfo.com and download the shareware DOS information utility which will list information of the PC chipsets etcetc.
Early compaqs used CLxxx chipsets for sound and drivers are available from Driver Support at www.cirrus.com
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: January 13, 2005 at 09:04:24 Pacific
Reply:
Searched high and low for that a few years back - the drivers were never made available for download, but Compaq claimed they would mail them for a small fee.
Link is no longer valid since the reorganization of Compaq/HP
The model I had was a Compaq Deskpro XL466 - the sound setup ok under Win95 as 'Sound Blaster Emulation' - the chip was:
Analog Devices AD1848KP SoundPort 9427
Gave up on it.
I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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Response Number 3
Name: Soedesh Date: January 17, 2005 at 20:35:59 Pacific
Reply:
I have 3 drivers for this Soundcard, you can do a Google search for the following files:
- 1848.zip - sndport1.zip and sndport2.zip - qs823drv.exe
If you really cannot find the file elsewhere you can send me an email (see my website) and I ll send it to you......
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Response Number 4
Name: Soedesh Date: January 17, 2005 at 20:38:09 Pacific
Reply:
It seems my website (regarding 3.1x) wasnt mentioned, its: www.openwindows.tk
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