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Now you hear it, now you don't. WTF?!?

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DefRef

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I put together a new PC and decided to give my old (now) #3 to my GF to replace the P2-333 that she'd been limping along with. Here's what in the new rig:

Abit BH6
P3-700 (no OC)
384MB PC133
8.4 GB WD HD
CL GF1 DDR
Aureal Vortex 2 sound (Monster MX300)
Generic 10/100 NIC
Lucent Winmodem
WinXP Pro

Nothing fancy, but OK for light office work and AOL. (Yeah, I know...)

I had it all together and running fine, but I wanted to transfer the SCSI Zip Drive and ZipZoom adapter from the old PC to this one. That's when the trouble started. I just couldn't get it to install (non-PnP for starters) and finally gave up.

When I got it booted, I realized that there was no sound. If I try to play something with WMP, it gives an error about no sound hardware being installed and the Vortex no longer shows in the Device Manager.

There's no way to add it thru Add Harware and I've tried it in three PCI slots and it doesn't see it, even after pulling the NIC out (needed to leave modem in for time being). I don't get it, but it's getting to me.

Any ideas? Thanks.
 
Well, if you didnt already know, Vortex drivers for Windows XP are freaking horrible! My sound would pop, crackle, and snap in and out all the time..

Second, perhaps you have an IRQ conflict..? Did you try removing the SCSI card and running it then?
 
SCSI card has been history. I'm not even looking for AWESOME sound, I'd settle for ANY sound now!

I doubt it's a conflict, cuz there's nothing slammed in the DM. It's like it doesn't exist.
 
Do yourself a favor and dump the Vortex, things die sometimes, and you never know when it'll happen. NewEgg has OEM SBlive 5.1's going for 31 + shipping, very good deal.
 
I could pull the Diamond S90 (Vortex 1) from the old PC, but I was hoping to sell that off. I also have an OLD AudioPCI lying around. She doesn't even want to listen to music on the PC. She just wants to hear the AOL alerts, etc.

Anyone got suggestions that don't just say "throw it out"?🙁
 
onboard audio dude...dont' tell me that board doesn't have onboard audio...i don't know any boards after 1999 that dont' sport onboard audio...(maybe i'm lying)..

if you dont' have onboar, is the aureal being detected by the mobo?...it should show up after POST, just before booting windows...it sometimes lists the devcies installed in PCI slots and their allocated IRQs...if it's not in there, it's dead...DEAD.

get rid of it, and get something like a 4-channel C-media chipset card....they run for $16 CDN, so i'm sure u could find it for just over $10 USD.

AOpen also makes their own chipsets, and manfucture 4.1 cards (probably higher quality than the c-media ones) for roughly the same price...(slightly more)

there's a bunch of pretty decent PCI sound cards out there for dirt cheap (Chaintech aka Audioexcel makes some, so does Zoltrix (nightingale pro))
 
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