AZ> I've got an ESS ES688 sound card on my notebook-- it works as advertised 
 AZ> under W95 (IRQ5, IO 220, DMA 1)... but I'm unable to get it to work 
under 
 AZ> NT 4.0 Workstation.
 AZ> I've tried both the drivers on the NT CD, and from ESS's website-- with 
 AZ> equal lack of success... installing from Control 
 AZ> Panel/Multimedia/Drivers/Add gets me a dialogue box with the proper IO 
 AZ> setting... but the next dialogue, choosing all IRQ 
Same experience here Alan. I use the creative labs SB 16 drivers, set to 
220,I5, 300 DMA 1 and it works fine. It can vary from machine to machine 
depending on how the PnP is setup in the BIOS. It -always- defaults to IRQ 5. 
There are some DOS utils that come with the ESS drivers that will let you see 
what Base, IRQ, DMA an midi settings your card, in your system defaults too 
when booted to DOS. Don't load any SC drivers. Just BOOT to DOS command 
prompt safe mode to determine the default settings the card is initially at 
and make those your settings for NT. I had better luck with the SB16 drivers 
than the ESS 1688 drivers in NT.
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