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Audio Driver for Dell Server?

fjmeat

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I have a dell poweredge 600sc server running windows server 2003. Is there an audio driver for this machine? After a while surfing the internets, i found nothing. Thanks for any help!
 
I didn't think that motherboard had onboard sound. Is there an audio-out port somewhere? I remember that server creating a lot of issues because, at the time, all the available sound cards wouldn't fit or couldn't handle the 3.3 volt PCI slots.

Here's a fairly recent discussion of sound and video cards for the 600SC:
http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/184199.aspx

Here's a Dell Forum discussion of sound card options:
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/11308904.aspx

It sounds like the $30 Creative Audigy SE or the Creative SBLive 5.1 are the best choices.
 
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Dell's site shows no audio drivers for your machine. If you're sure you have audio on your motherboard, look in Device Manager to see if it shows an audio device. If it's named, you can search google for the appropriate driver.
 
600SC does not have on board sound. It it says 'Poweredge' it is nearly 100% odds that it won't have onboard sound.
 
Thanks for all the help, you are all correct, there is no audio-out port on the mainboard. I never physically look at the machine much, just remote in to it. However it would be nice to play music on the pc remoting into the dell. Thanks again!
 
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