Old sound card on a new computer

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I've installed an old Creative Sound Blaster (16 bit) in a modern
computer (Intel DG31PR motherboard, if it helps). It's a PCI card. It
has behaved strangely under XP, so I installed Win98 expecting it to
work. It didn't. Most of the crash messages were simply 'an exception
0E' or so, but one was more informative.

It said that the PCI bus has some devices which are 32-bit, and some
that are compatible (or was the driver named 'compatible'? I'm not
sure). It said that this combination isn't supported. It reccomended
to find a new driver for the device, but I didn't find any.

Is there any other solution to make this combination supported, either
under Win98 or XP? Will Vista solve it? Any other idea?


Thanks a lot in advance.
 
I've installed an old Creative Sound Blaster (16 bit) in a modern
computer (Intel DG31PR motherboard, if it helps). It's a PCI card. It
has behaved strangely under XP, so I installed Win98 expecting it to
work. It didn't. Most of the crash messages were simply 'an exception
0E' or so, but one was more informative.

It said that the PCI bus has some devices which are 32-bit, and some
that are compatible (or was the driver named 'compatible'? I'm not
sure). It said that this combination isn't supported. It reccomended
to find a new driver for the device, but I didn't find any.

Is there any other solution to make this combination supported, either
under Win98 or XP? Will Vista solve it? Any other idea?

Thanks a lot in advance.
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Creative Sound Blaster 16-bit drivers downloads

http://www.download.com/Creative-Labs-Sound-Blaster-16-32-AWE-Drivers/3640-2120_4-10005159.html

http://us.creative.com/support/down...ows+Vista+64-bit&OS=27&DriverType=0&details=1

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?DriverLang=1033&searchString=SB0460

http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=12948
Good luck.
 
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I've installed an old Creative Sound Blaster (16 bit) in a modern
computer (Intel DG31PR motherboard, if it helps). It's a PCI card. It
has behaved strangely under XP, so I installed Win98 expecting it to
work. It didn't. Most of the crash messages were simply 'an exception
0E' or so, but one was more informative.

It said that the PCI bus has some devices which are 32-bit, and some
that are compatible (or was the driver named 'compatible'? I'm not
sure). It said that this combination isn't supported. It reccomended
to find a new driver for the device, but I didn't find any.

Is there any other solution to make this combination supported, either
under Win98 or XP? Will Vista solve it? Any other idea?


Thanks a lot in advance.
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If I were you, I would buy a new card, as they are relatively inexpensive,
and save myself the headache.

Give the kx drivers a try though.
 
I've installed an old Creative Sound Blaster (16 bit) in a modern
computer (Intel DG31PR motherboard, if it helps). It's a PCI card. It
has behaved strangely under XP, so I installed Win98 expecting it to
work. It didn't. Most of the crash messages were simply 'an exception
0E' or so, but one was more informative.

It said that the PCI bus has some devices which are 32-bit, and some
that are compatible (or was the driver named 'compatible'? I'm not
sure). It said that this combination isn't supported. It reccomended
to find a new driver for the device, but I didn't find any.

Is there any other solution to make this combination supported, either
under Win98 or XP? Will Vista solve it? Any other idea?


Thanks a lot in advance.
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There shouldn't be any extra benefit from using older sundcard on newer
momboard, or newer soundcard on older momboard.

- If is a good sound card then it should sing well with either older/newer
momboard

- If the soundcard is good working card and have driver for it then it
should work well with either older/newer momboard

- If the working soundcard connects to correct working slow then it should
work.

- I don't think there is any SLOT compatible issue because each has
different designed to match and asscept the specific design of the card. Or
if you can stick the card in and the system recognize it then it's
compatible.
 
Yep...I'd try the proper mfg's drivers
and if they dodn't work...just get a new card.

The idea of installing Vista just to get a $20 sound card working
does not make sense to me. I'm sure everything would just get a lot
worse anyway!
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www.kxproject.com
 
kony said:
On XP (there should be no need to run Win98 or Vista just to
get this to work), try a Creative Driver named
"SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe", I have that driver installed on
a recent vintage P35 chipset board and it seems to work ok.
The card I used it with is a different version, SB128 I
think but the driver appeared to support several cards,
possibly yours.

http://files2.europe.creative.com/manualdn/Drivers/Others/1843/SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe

The notes for this driver read as follows, HOWEVER they seem
to suggest you need to have another Creative driver
installed already and I do not think I did, rather it seemed
to install and work as if it were a standalone driver
instead of an update. What they might mean is that if you
were using some digital software package you would have to
have that installed before, instead of after this driver or
else installing the older driver after the new one would
overwrite the new files with old ones.

"Overview
This package is meant for Sound Blaster® Vibra128, Sound
Blaster 16 PCI, Sound Blaster PCI 128, Sound Blaster 4.1
Digital, and Sound Blaster Ensoniq AudioPCI users running
Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, who
experienced distortion problem when playing a wave or MP3
file in 4 speaker mode. For PRODIKEYS™ users who are running
on Windows 98SE, this Web Update will enable them to record
and playback under IMPRESS mode within the PRODIKEYS
application. The package will contain the following:

Sound Blaster PCI (WDM) Drivers V 5.12.01.5017

Requirements
An existing Sound Blaster Vibra128, Sound Blaster 16 PCI,
Sound Blaster PCI 128, Sound Blaster Ensoniq AudioPCI, or
Sound Blaster PCI4.1 Digital software package must be
installed before installing this update.
Notes

Creative Configurator works with VXD drivers only. The
Creative Configurator program link in the Start Menu will be
removed after users install the Web Update.
For users who are running Windows 98SE, this Web Update will
upgrade VXD drivers to WDM drivers.
This release works with the CT4816, CT4751, CT5808, CT4740
and the CT4815.
This package is not applicable to model CT4730 2-channel
audio card. Installation WILL NOT proceed. "


I only put the old card in because some old games would
crash the driver for the Aureal Vortex card it replaced (I
have a lot of really old sound cards) and unfortunately the
TV tuner application for another card wants an AC97 driver
to control volume.
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I think his reason for going this route, was because he wanted
a game port, and the Creative card has one. His motherboard
has a sound solution on the motherboard, but apparently
no provision for a game port. I don't know if those USB
to game port devices would be a solution instead, because
I don't know what OSes the game solution has to run in.
If a USB to game port worked, then maybe he could use the
onboard sound to go with it.

http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.c...read/thread/1edc35cd3555a6b1/81bac036007c046b

Paul
 
I think his reason for going this route, was because he wanted
a game port, and the Creative card has one. His motherboard
has a sound solution on the motherboard, but apparently
no provision for a game port. I don't know if those USB
to game port devices would be a solution instead, because
I don't know what OSes the game solution has to run in.
If a USB to game port worked, then maybe he could use the
onboard sound to go with it.

http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.comp.hardware/browse_thread/thread/...
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You cenrtainly have a good memory... :)

Yes, it's that sound card. It has several issues: getting the gameport
to run was one, and this is another.

Indeed the original reason I installed it was the gameport, but that's
ancient history. The way the system now behaves is really strange, and
I want to understand it. Already I've learned a lot about the way the
OS manages drivers by analyzing it. And yet, some fundamental problem
must be there, and the system's behaviour just doesn't make any sense.
 
Yep...I'd try the proper mfg's drivers
and if they dodn't work...just get a new card.
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What's mfg's? where can I get them?
The idea of installing Vista just to get a $20 sound card working
does not make sense to me. I'm sure everything would just get a lot worse
anyway!-הסתר טקסט מצוטט-
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There is a change I'm going to install Vista anyway, so I wondered
if I need put any efort into this issue or will it be solved anyway.
 
        There shouldn't be any extra benefit from using older sundcard on newer
momboard, or newer soundcard on older momboard.

- If is a good sound card then it should sing well with either older/newer
momboard

- If the soundcard is good working card and have driver for it then it
should work well with either older/newer momboard

- If the working soundcard connects to correct working slow then it should
work.

- I don't think there is any SLOT compatible issue because each has
different designed to match and asscept the specific design of the card.  Or
if you can stick the card in and the system recognize it then it's
compatible.-הסתר טקסט מצוטט-
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Yet it doesn seem as a compatibility issue. As I said, one of the
crash messages of the Win98 said that the PCI bus has several 32-bit
child devices and some "compatible" ones (which I take for the sound
card), and that this combination is unsupported.
 
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