Sound Problem

[rfwinters77]

Hi.

I recently built a system for my father. It's slightly older, but it's all he needs.

Anyway, I had an ISA sound card (yep...ISA!) in there initially as a hold over
until I got a PCI sound card.

I had 2 PCI devices installed along with that ISA sound card, a video card
and a network card.

I installed Windows 98 originally, and the sound didn't work.
I upgraded to XP, hoping it's built in drivers would do the trick...no sound.
Device manager showed the devices working fine though.

Finally got the PCI sound card (Aureal Vortex 8810; not the best, but
like I said, good enough for stereo speakers), installed it and rebooted XP.

Still no sound. Tinkered around with swapping the network and sound
PCI cards around and nothing has helped so far. Initially, before swapping
the cards around, the start up music for XP would start to play for about
a second and then it would cut out.

Now, there's nothing. I checked System INformation for any IRQ conflicts
and noticed that XP has 5 or 6 devices (some are basically the same device)
all using IRQ 11!!!!

And I know I can't manually configure IRQ's in XP, so I'm at my wits end.

I just used XP's built in drivers for the card, but it looks like they had the
exactly right driver.

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[rfwinters77]

Did some more research and I'm thinking it might be an ACPI issue.

I think that's pretty stupid to create ACPI which messes up if there
are non-ACPI compliant devices installed! X-P

 

[jackschmittusa]

Your isa card might have worked, but it is not likely to be plug and play, and you will have to install the drivers manually. There are probably no drivers for it for xp, but there might be for 98. I have an isa sound card in a PII 300 that works fine with 98. I did have to resolve some i/o conflicts, but it wasn't hard. Do a Google search on the model no. of the card, and you will probably find drivers if you don't have any now. I know that the Vortex cards work ok in 98, but I don't know about xp.

 

[rfwinters77]

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, I'm considering reformatting and sticking with 98 so I at least have some
control over system resource settings.