XP & Aureal Vortex 8810 problems

[Wiz]

XP says it has drivers but the card doesn't work. It says the card is enabled & "working fine", but still no sound.
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.

 

[Poof]

Wow Wiz. You're brave puttin' winblows XP on an old Pentium! :Q

If it were me, I'd scrap the XP and find a copy of 98. It'll probably run better on it anyway.

Altrenately, you might have to swap other cards around in there or try to force the card onto IRQ 5. Seems alot of sound cards won't run correctly unless they're using that interrupt, regardless of whether they are considered to be "working fine".

 

[Wiz]

Thanks Poof, come to think it does want to be on IRQ 10 right now, and you are correct about IRQ5.
I'll try that.
BTW, XP is running like a dream on this box except for the sound card issue.
It's a Pentium 133 with 64 megs too :Q

It doesn't have to do much, just web browse and maybe play a couple old games.

 

[JWMiddleton]

Wiz,

I installed XP Pro on a system with a TB Montego sound card. The system seemed to work find until I went into 3d games, then the system would hang. A little research found that the Montego was not support by XP, instead they supplied reference drivers that "kinda" worked. I went back to Win98SE and the system has run flawlessly since. I think games saw the card and figured they could use some of the card's features, but the drivers didn't support them, consequently it would hang.

Good luck!

 

[Engineer]

I just installed XP Pro yesterday for the first time...on Intel 810 chipset motherboard with built in CMI8738 Audio card. XP recognizes it and assigned a driver to it, but no sound. It goes through the motions when I test a sound, but nothing comes out of the speaker. I downloaded XP drivers, but no go! I don't seem to know how to force an IRQ in XP, but it's at 11 right now. Anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks

Oh, and it runs fine in Win 98 (Dual boot)!

 

[Wiz]

Engineer, if you have a bios that allows it you can control which IRQ is assigned to each PCI slot and theoretically the onboard sound as well.
I would look at the Peripheral setup screen and the PCI screen and see if you can find a setting for this.

My bios on this old board does not have the ability to assign IRQ to a slot, so I go in and set an IRQ to be "ISA" and then reboot and see which one the card gets next. If it isn't what I wanted then I set that one to be ISA and reboot. SOmetimes I have to move the card to a different slot and repeat above procedure. You just gotta love "plug & pray".

 

[dawks]

Just a quick point, Aureal when under just as Windows 2000 was comming out. Their last driver release for 2000 was an alpha version, which completely sucked. Aureal cards will almost never work reasonably in anything other then 9.x. (they will work flawlessly in 9.x btw)

I pulled my Aureal Vortex II and bought a SB 16 (which was all I could afford) when XP came out, so my system would at least run half decent.

You should get sound.. but it would be very crappy.. (with the aureal). Perhaps if you really need sound, try a different card.. or a 9x OS.

 

[Wiz]

Poof, 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".

 

[KGB]

Has anyone tried this?

I'm running my Vortex2 (MX300) on Win2K with a KT133A chipset w/o any problems whatever.

 

[Wiz]

Interesting, I may try this but my XP box has an intel HX or TX chipset so I don't know how much of this applies to my situation.
I have WPCREDIT & WPCRSET so it will be trivial to make the settings. Easier than swapping the card out, if it works.

 

[Wiz]

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.