Monster Sound card problem

[JohnBoy00]

I'm having a problem with a Monster Sound card. It used to be made by Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com) but is now considered a Legacy product. It was installed on a home-built computer that I recently purchased. The OS is W98 and the driver was sent along on a CD along with drivers for the video and NIC cards. When I upgarded the HDD from a 40 to an 80GB, I decided to load XP Pro as well since I had heard that it had ALOT of drivers included. Well, as luck would have it, the sound card as well as the NIC failed to load properly. The "driver" turned out to be an upgrade only which relies on the Monster being installed successfully initially. The Diamond website lists the "upgrade" as the only download.

Frustrated, I reloaded W98 and pulled the NIC card. Again the Monster card failed to install, even though the OS CD was the same one used to initially install on the 40GB drive.

Any ideas as to what might be going on here? Should I just punt and get a new sound card? I'd really like to stay with XP and maybe its worth the cost of a few new cards to do so.

Thanks for your help.

John

 

[Trashman]

First off , don't even waste your time going to Diamonds website looking for info or drivers for that card, they pretty much gave up support on that card back in '98....go here for any reference drivers Vortex of Sound.
But anyway, I would make sure you take out all of the Diamond related drivers and software, let XP install the drivers, Microsoft kinda redid the Win2K drivers a bit to work in XP, Vortex of Sound has more info on that.
But, I have a Vortex2 (as do a few other forum users) soundcard and so far I haven't run into any problems in XP, so I'd try to get it to work, if ya can't then punt.