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C-media /w Windows XP - No Sound!

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Name: Jaeger
Date: October 1, 2001 at 14:07:31 Pacific
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Hi there,

I have a motherboard native C-media CMI8738 sound card. My motherboard is a M754LMR from PCchips.

I've downloaded and installed the latest Windows 2000 drivers avaliable from the C-media web site (no XP drivers are avalible).

I'm not recieving any errors during installation of the drivers. The device appears to be working in the device manager.

--- Still no sound! :(


http://www.pcchips.com/ (motherboard)
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/ (sound card)



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Response Number 1
Name: frank
Date: October 1, 2001 at 15:17:05 Pacific
Reply:

hey dude...

i had the same exact problem as you...
i installed the windows 2000 drivers just as you...

BUT it worked for me, maybe you can reinstall the drivers..


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Response Number 2
Name: Javier
Date: October 14, 2001 at 10:36:52 Pacific
Reply:

HEY, I HAVE THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM, IF SOMEONE HAVE THE C-MEDIA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS XP, PLEASE HELP US ¡¡¡ THANKS


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Response Number 3
Name: sky
Date: October 16, 2001 at 01:50:30 Pacific
Reply:

i had the same problem with CM8738, cannot install at all. but solve with the win2k WDM driver from wwww.cmedia.com.tw.


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Response Number 4
Name: retest
Date: October 22, 2001 at 00:54:11 Pacific
Reply:

My cmi8738 from motherboard halts the system on windows xp
(hey, its funny winxp error messages now always say it's "hardware's fault").

Win2k drivers installed past the warnings but still crashes.
Also, these are not automatically set as default so i didnt get any sound until selected them
(also checked the "use preferred devices only" box).
I suppose no one forgots to check if the device is on the list...


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Response Number 5
Name: gomes
Date: October 23, 2001 at 08:35:39 Pacific
Reply:

hey guys if anyone has any information for cmi8738 drivers for windows xp...plz let me know....thanx in advance


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Response Number 6
Name: franco
Date: November 3, 2001 at 00:09:37 Pacific
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http://64.4.16.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=18eb6a26d4913ce2854b41284f9efa3a&lat=1004774644&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ecmedia%2ecom%2etw%2f


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Response Number 7
Name: franco
Date: November 3, 2001 at 00:11:03 Pacific
Reply:

http://64.4.16.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=18eb6a26d4913ce2854b41284f9efa3a&lat=1004774644&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ecmedia%2ecom%2etw%2f


driver for the sound card cmi 8738


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Response Number 8
Name: MeCNE
Date: November 3, 2001 at 18:44:32 Pacific
Reply:

Hey works great for me.. I have an ASUS CUSI-FX with CMEDIA CM8738..
Used the CMedia W2K drivers from the ASUS cd
and works...
you might try to dl them from here http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/driver_audio.html#c-media
Don't think it will matter what MOBO it's listed for it all the same audio chipset



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Response Number 9
Name: francois
Date: November 3, 2001 at 21:02:42 Pacific
Reply:

On my side I can start playing sounds, and after 1 minute, it just stops playing(Winamp stops, real player stops, and Windows Media player gos on, but I get no sound output)
Sounds like the C-Media circuit is really having troubels with XP...
I am afraid I will have to go for a SB...


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Response Number 10
Name: Francois
Date: November 3, 2001 at 21:15:44 Pacific
Reply:

Just saw that the drivers were available from windowsupdate website.
Unfortunately it still crashes the same way after a few minutes. Unbelievable !!
I had that some time ago with win98 and my SB AWE64 ISA, but Windows Me and 2000 had that fixed...
It is really crap. I am going to by a SB Live and see if it works. If it does not, I will just go really crazy...


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Response Number 11
Name: Rock
Date: November 4, 2001 at 02:10:42 Pacific
Reply:

as of Nov. 4, there is still no drivers specifically for Win XP, but I got mine to work using a combination of Win 98, NT 4, and Win 2K drivers. It took me a while to figure it out, and I'm an IT prof. What I suggest you do is download each of these drivers and extract them in seperate individual folders, then try each one individually. You first have to have your sound card initialized by one of the drivers, then for each individual components try each of all the drivers. Like I said it will take a while because its not in any particular order but it will work. I think, I don't remember for sure, but first I think it uses the win 2k driver to first even get reconized. If not it was the win 98 driver.


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Response Number 12
Name: marques
Date: November 6, 2001 at 17:02:01 Pacific
Reply:

Where is C-media thec. dept., incredible they don`t have a xp driver.


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Response Number 13
Name: Mehdi
Date: November 13, 2001 at 12:08:08 Pacific
Reply:

I've found a CMI8738 driver for WinXP at http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_download_1.html

But i didn't have the chance to try it, my PC had many progs erased by WinXP and it don't wanna start.

Hope u'll have more luck than I.



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Response Number 14
Name: Will
Date: November 15, 2001 at 13:46:48 Pacific
Reply:

Hi there i have a C-media CMI8738 sound card. My motherboard is a M756t from PCchips.
But I need a driver for my C-media CMI8738 for my Windows Xp pro, i have downloaded all those drivers for Win Xp, but isn't works..
I to need a driver for my Lexmark 1100 for Win XP.
Someone please HELPME!!!!!!!!!
Thanks



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Response Number 15
Name: franco
Date: November 19, 2001 at 13:51:12 Pacific
Reply:

I HAVE CMI 8338 BUT THE SOUND DOSEN´T WORK IN XP.I´haven´t drivers for it.
please help us


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Response Number 16
Name: Ahmed
Date: November 26, 2001 at 10:50:17 Pacific
Reply:

I need CMI8330 driver for XP if anyone knows where i can find it PLEASE give me the site
thanx


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Response Number 17
Name: e_x-e
Date: November 28, 2001 at 16:31:19 Pacific
Reply:

Hi there,
I have a motherboard native C-media CMI8738 sound card. My motherboard is a M754LMR from PCchips.

I've downloaded and installed the latest Windows 2000 drivers avaliable from the C-media web site (no XP drivers are avalible).

I'm not recieving any errors during installation of the drivers. The device appears to be working in the device manager.

Still no sound! :(


http://www.pcchips.com/ (motherboard)
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/ (sound card)



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