OT, I think: WTF!??! ESS AudioDrive ISA Driver help needed...

firestar46

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Okay, here's the deal...I've been languishing with the ESS Audiodrive 1869 ISA soundcard for around 3 years...It does it's job, or more accurately, DID...my problem is as follows:

In an attempt to update all my rig's drivers, I downloaded two sets of drivers-one from "windrivers.com" in a zip labeled "5025.zip" and one from the ESS support page labeled "1327.zip". When the ESS page's drivers were installed, I get no sound anymore...period, as if Windows had no idea a card was there; there isn' even a Volume Settings thingy in the toolbar anymore, and MScomfig won't get it up, nor will running the prog from Accessories/Multimedia on the Start Menu...but in looking at System properties, the driver's in, and no conflicts or probs...what should I do? How could I erase all trace of the drivers, and install them again, properly? I'm tired of no sound in CS...it's dropping my kill count rapidly!!!
 

Imaginer

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If it worked with the old drivers, why update?

It might not be the right drivers judging from the names of the files.
 

theplanb

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I had the exactly same problem. Somebody here sent me a file called 1317.zip. You can look for that file in the google. And it worked. But sound echoed on most of time. I wasn't sure whether that was because of the driver or the codec I downloaded and installed. And I couldn't fix it..so I had to do the clean window installation :Q
Good luck