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HELP! ESS Sound card won't work
Name: Matt Puerkel Date: February 7, 2001 at 12:12:01 Pacific
Comment:
I have an xwave 512 sound card with an ESS Alegro 1989 chip. I have installed the drivers countless time including different updates ect. but it still won't work. The device says it works fine in device manager, but under sound and multimedia it says there are no playback devices available, and that the drivers are installed but due to an unkown problem will not work. Please help me out on this one.
Name: Eric Date: February 7, 2001 at 12:30:12 Pacific
Reply:
How old is card and what are your system specs?
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Response Number 2
Name: Matt Puerkel Date: February 7, 2001 at 12:43:15 Pacific
Reply:
I just bought the card about a month ago. I have an Asus 800mhz motherbrd, 128mb ram maxtor 45G hd. Running WinMe. I e-mailed the company and they said Hardware conflict, but doesn't a hw-conflict show up in device manager?
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Response Number 3
Name: tfa Date: February 7, 2001 at 16:26:23 Pacific
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Check in device manager, what IRQ the soundcard is using. Normally soundcards like to be on IRQ 5. The OS may have put it on a different one.
That is my 5 cent, Good Luck
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Response Number 4
Name: Matt Puerkel Date: February 7, 2001 at 18:08:13 Pacific
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I have it set on IRQ5
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Response Number 5
Name: ButchIII Date: February 8, 2001 at 07:12:58 Pacific
Reply:
Try a different slot.
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Response Number 6
Name: Catastrophe Date: February 9, 2001 at 17:53:12 Pacific
Reply:
MY ESS soundcard worked fine in '98 but when I installed ME I get the same problem you got. I know it is nothing wrong with the card. I went back to '98.
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Response Number 7
Name: martin chiu Date: March 27, 2001 at 20:29:18 Pacific
Reply:
I lost my ess 1989's driver could anybody tell me where can I find it? thanx!!
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