[RESOLVED] Help! URGENT - ESS Soundcard

[Joseph]

Dear People that like answering questions,

My Vice Principal has a ESS Soundcard. She got multimedia speakers, but found out she didn't have the drivers for her soundcard. I went to her office, and took a look at the situatation. It was locating a PCI Audio Device, and it was looking for the drivers. I opened the case and copied down the following chip numbers:

ESS
solo-1

ES1938S
TTUB42357
(P) 4,214,125 (C)

I went on the internet and got the driver from Windrivers. It was located right on the page. I downloaded the drivers put them on a floppy, and brought em in and installed them. There was only one. It installed perfectly, NO ! or ? in the System info where it was. I went to SOUND, however, but it was greyed out still!!! I went into Multimedia in Control Panel, and there was no play-back devices. I tryed a couple of things, but it is still grey. I tried deleting the driver, rebooting the machine. It would refind the driver, the one I gave it perfectly. But the PLAY button would still be greyed out. The system in running a Pentium I believe, WIN95B, it was donated so we have no drivers, or no manufactorers, any support given will be highly appreciated! Thanks in advance,

Joseph Kelly

[Mustang]

who made the syetem the sound card is in
a lot of systems have proprietary software to make the sound cards function and you will have to download it from they respective sites

[Joseph]

Mustang,

Thats the thing! I have no idea whatsoever! It was donated.

Joseph

[Mustang]

get as much info as you can from the motherboard, bios, and everything elsi in the system and i'll see if i can figure out who manufactured it and what drivers you need
if you need any other help just email me the link is just above this post for my email address

[chemwiz]

If it's a PCI card, do the obvious and move it to a different slot. This will force windows to reinstall it.

[scoobie]

Is this sound card in one of the slots or built into the motherboard?

If on the motherboard, check the bios to make sure the sound has been enabled.

Intel and several others build sound cards into motherboards, even back to the pentium 75 days.

Also try using "soundblaster compatible" from the drivers list. you won't get full functionality of the sound card but should be able to get some sound to work.

try different sound file types. wav, midi, etc. see if certain types work and other don't.

If you are trying to get cd audio, it will NOT work unless there is a cable from the CD drive to the sound card inside the case.

some basics I know but covering the bases will help you solve the problem.

scoobie

[JeanneD]

also make sure you dont have any sound stuff listed under "other devices" in device manager. If there are remove them and the stuff under sound and restart\reinstall.