Monster Sound Card - making it work with Win2k....help

[Souka]

Hello,

I have a Diamond Monster PCI sound card (w/add-on wavetable card).

I am not certain which version it is, I'm guessing orginal since there are no other markings. Serial# 2080300002080
P/N# 23010111-004

From the Diamondmm.com site, this card only is compatible with Win95/98. Their email support doesn't work...keeps coming back with unknown domain host.



So the task is the following. Get this card to make sound on a Windows 2000 desktop box.



I have the original drivers CD, I was thinking there might be a way to use them, or to use another Diamond sound card drivers..........

Comments? Suggestions?

 

[uhohibrokeit]

i tried to get one of those to work in win2k before... i got pretty close, only was crashing when using DirectX's Direct Sound .... i ended up just using a different sound card.

you need to look at the card and see which Monster it is exactly. Find on diamondmm.com what sound chip is on the card. It should be Aureal... see if you can find a driver for the sound chip (not the monster) on the web. you might try http://www.vortexofsound.com/ and search under the sound chip (not the monster)

 

[Workin']

If it is an MX300, fairly decent drivers for it come with Windows 2000. Just point the driver wizard to the Win2k CD and you should be good to go.

For newer beta drivers, check out Vortex of Sound.

 

[Souka]

I can say for sure it's not a MX300 or MX200 since I have owned both.

I'm guessing it's an original "Monster Sound" or the M80 model.....eitherway, I'm trying to get it to work on Win2k.

 

[dbwillis]

I used the MX300 card in 2k with no problems..I let 2k install the drivers for it and also tried the drivers from www.vortexofsound.com (think thats it) and it provided a few more extra feeatures.

 

[Workin']

Well, if it's an older card than the MX300 then some type of driver should have come with Windows. Did you try letting the hardware wizard search the Windows CD?

BTW, Diamond has been out of the sound card business for over a year. I wouldn't expect too much support from them!

 

[Souka]

I gave up....broke the card in half before tossing into the garbage.

I tried forcing Win98 drivers
I tried forcing Win2k drivers for similar cards....


Nothing worked. Closest I got was using built-in "Legacy Audio Drivers"...which installed fine, but no sound output. Even media player griped that there was no sound card device installed.


Ahhh well.