Diamond MX300 drivers.

[Sniper82]

Even though Aureal and Diamond has kicked the can is there a group or someone who has fixed some bugs for this sound card? I am having lockup problem with it in WinXP Pro. Was just wondering is there a newer driver version than whats on Diamonds old site or S3 I should say.

 

[pitupepito2000]

I don't know, but why don't you try looking in driverguide.com. You can post your request and that might be the best place to look for the drivers that you need.

I hope this helps!

 

[mrbios]

I believe the only people to make XP drivers for the Aureal cards was Microsoft, and they should have installed by default when you installed XP. Don't use the Diamond drivers, as they haven't updated then since about a month after the card was released.

I looked in you system rig, and noticed you have a Via chipset. Aureal cards and Via chipsets had major lockup problems when used together, unless you changed some setting or another with some H-Oda utility. That is most likely what is causing your lockup problems. (H-Oda is the same guy that makes WCPUID. The utility you need is calledd WPCredit, if I remember correctly, but don't quote me on that. That's why I didn't mention a name in the diagnosis.)

Russell "Mr.BIOS" Sampson

 

[erikiksaz]

Originally posted by: mrbios
I believe the only people to make XP drivers for the Aureal cards was Microsoft, and they should have installed by default when you installed XP. Don't use the Diamond drivers, as they haven't updated then since about a month after the card was released.

I looked in you system rig, and noticed you have a Via chipset. Aureal cards and Via chipsets had major lockup problems when used together, unless you changed some setting or another with some H-Oda utility. That is most likely what is causing your lockup problems. (H-Oda is the same guy that makes WCPUID. The utility you need is calledd WPCredit, if I remember correctly, but don't quote me on that. That's why I didn't mention a name in the diagnosis.)

Russell "Mr.BIOS" Sampson

Yep, perfectly correct. Hit up VortexofSound.com for the instructions and files.

 

[Goi]

My dad's new system is using my MX300 to replace his ECS K7VTA rev3.1's onboard sound. He's running Win2K Pro SP3 and using the default drivers. The drivers installed themselves automatically without any prompting and just worked right out of the box after the OS installation was complete, something even the Linksys NIC in the same computer cannot claim to do(still needed manual driver installation). The board is based on the VIA KT333 with the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers installed, and he's not having any problems with sound, but then again he's just using it for basic windows sound.

If you need special drivers, check out vortexofsound.com as mentioned