Chris  Holten said to Alan  Zisman on 03-02-97 19:17: 
 AZ> I've got an ESS ES688 sound card on my notebook-- it works as adve
 AZ> under W95 (IRQ5, IO 220, DMA 1)... but I'm unable to 
 AZ> 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--
 AZ> equal lack of success... installing from Control 
 AZ> Panel/Multimedia/Drivers/Add gets me a dialogue box with the prope
 AZ> setting... but the next dialogue, choosing all IRQ 
CH>Same experience here Alan. I use the creative labs SB 16 drivers, set t
CH>220,I5, 300 DMA 1 and it works fine. It can vary from 
CH>machine to machine depending on how the PnP is setup in the 
CH>BIOS. It -always- defaults to IRQ 5. There are some DOS 
CH>utils that come with the ESS drivers that will let you see 
CH>what Base, IRQ, DMA an midi settings your card, in your 
CH>system defaults too when booted to DOS. Don't load any SC 
CH>drivers. Just BOOT to DOS command prompt safe mode to 
CH>determine the default settings the card is initially at and 
CH>make those your settings for NT. I had better luck with the 
CH>SB16 drivers than the ESS 1688 drivers in NT.
Yep... I replaced the ES1868 card in my desktop w. an SB16PnP... but it's 
harder to replace the audio in the laptop!
I would have thought the settings that work in W95 would work in NT, but 
that doesn't seem to be the case.
I-net mail to: alan_zisman@mindlink.bc.ca
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