[RESOLVED] vsndsys.386

[Ellis Dee]

HELP! A guy recently installed a used ESS 1868 sound card on my machine. It worked fine until my whole system went belly up. i had to re-install windows 95 and ever since then before Windows fully loads I get this blue screen message that say...."Vsndsys.386 was unable to locate the Windows Sound System hardware. Please check your software/hardware configuration and restart your computer, press any key to continue". So I do that and then I get another message saying..."cs31ba11.drv, vsndsys.386 is not present". After clearing that message Windows finishes loading. I downloaded the ESS 1868 drivers and re-installed but to no avail. What should I try next?

[dsolodow]

Go into device manager and delete the sound card. THen, before restarting go the the multimedia control panel. Go to the advanced tab. Under each of the first four listings, there will be an entry for an old sounds card. Double click on the listing and click remove. Do this for all four of them. Then, restart the computer and point it to the drivers for the ess card. That should do it...

[Ellis Dee]

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I think I'm gonna pull the card and re-install it, see if that does it. I'll let y'all know.

[stevet]

It sounds like there is a reference to vsndsys.386 in your system.ini that is causing a problem. Edit your system.ini file and place a semicolon in front of the line that says "device=vsndsys.386". Then reboot.

Steve

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