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WIn XP & Aureal Vortex 8810?

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Wiz

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XP says it has drivers but the card doesn't work.
When I try to play a wav file it gives me errors, most of the time it says I need to install audio compression.
Anybody have experience or ideas about this?
I've got an old ISA creative labs card I could throw in there but I figured the PCI sound card would be easier on the system,
it's an old classic pentium box I slapped together mainly for web browsing, but my daughter would also like to play a few of her older games on it.
Thanks.
 
Well, I haven't done it in a while and this page isn't comming up for me. Not sure if it's gone or just down right now, but try Vortex of Sound

Follow instructions there for Win2K problems...applies to XP as well.

I'll try to find some other place for them if it turns out that place is gone, I don't remember what had to be done off the top of my head.


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Thanks, I tried setting the card to IRQ5 but that didn't make any difference.
Trying to play a wav file produces an error that says I need to install "audio compression".
That site doesn't work for me too, but thanks.
 
Umm, I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but why do you have XP on a classic pentium? Isn't that below microsofts reccomended minamum system requirements? XP would run terribly on that.

If I were you, I'd put win98 on that box, XP just has way too much bloatware for that old of a processor.

Or at least go 2k if your looking for the stability aspect of things.
 
RedShirt, that's really not the isssue - however FYI it runs fine, actually pretty snappy.
win98 does not have enough security, several kids will be using this and they each need their own login and the only Win2K I own is already running on one machine.

Everything but this crappy cound card works, and works very well and with no real slowdowns.

Who really gives a turdball what MS recommends anyway? All that matters is getting it to work 😉

Guess I better dig out that old sound blaster
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Well I had a thought, as editing with WPCREDIT / WPCRSET didn't help I went and installed Real player & let it take over all sounds.
Before this trying to play a CD produced an error, it would not even start playing with Media Player.
Now CD's play and you can listen to them with the output jack on the front of the cd player, no errors are produced.
I still get an error trying to play WAV files or MP3 files though, now it says the device is already in use.
 
Does the card have its very own IRQ, like when the comp starts up and it quickly flashes the IRQ, that's the place to look, as Win2k/XP does that ACPI or whatever stuff...
 
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