SoundBlaster PCI 128 cannaot load MIDI waveset

[Cthulhu]

Since installing Windows 98 on my PC, I have been receiving this error whenever Windows starts. The card worked perfectly with Windows 95. The drivers I used were downloaded from their site, but now I'm wondering if they're missing something. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

-Cthulhu (jh66@dreamscape.com)

[willys]

[Go to your Device Manager and see if there are any yellow !'s or ?'s. Try to reload your sound drivers, update the drivers. YOu could remove all the sound drivers and reload them also.

[Robert Humphrey]

I bet that if you go back to where you downloaded the driver that it probably will say that the driver you downloaded did not contain any wavesets. Choose a driver from further down the page that contains wavesets and all will be well.

Originally posted by Cthulhu:
Since installing Windows 98 on my PC, I have been receiving this error whenever Windows starts. The card worked perfectly with Windows 95. The drivers I used were downloaded from their site, but now I'm wondering if they're missing something. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

-Cthulhu (jh66@dreamscape.com)

[mididriver]

In Windows 98, with each startup, an annoying Windows dialog box popped up with this message:

“The Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128D driver cannot load MIDI waveset. MIDI playback has been disabled.”

After researching this online for quite sometime and trying many different solutions (including downloading the eapci2m.ecw driver and installing it in the C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS directory), nothing seemed to work.

Then one day, fiddling around on my own, I finally discovered a quick solution that will at first seem too good to be true. But trust me, it worked for me, and it might very well work for you.

Do this:

1. Go to Start/Setting/Control Panel.
2. Double-click on System.
3. Go to the Device Manager tab.
4. Click on the plus sign (+) to the left of “Sound, video and game controllers.”
5. Highlight (select) “Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128D.”
6. Click on the Properties button.
7. Go to the Driver tab.
8. Click on the Update Driver button.
9. When prompted, choose to search for updates on the floppy drives.
10. It automatically searches for and updates the drivers.
11. When it’s finished, click OK to finish.
12. Restart your computer. The annoying box should be gone!

If this approach doesn’t work, then try downloading eapci2m.ecw from http://www.driverguide.com (you have to register first, but it’s free). Save the file to the directory specified above, then try Steps 1 through 12 again.

If that doesn’t work, then I would suggest going to the following Creative web page below, where you can download all applicable drivers and wavesets for Sound Blaster:

http://dmzweb4.europe.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=760,E=0000000000061330557,K=4138,Sxi=0,Case=ob j(1930),Kb=ww_english,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com/

If, for some reason, the link above doesn’t work, simply go to http://www.creative.com, click on Support, click on Knowledge Base, and search for “load midi wavesets” (you don’t need the quotes). The title of the article is “Error – Can not load MIDI Wavesets, MIDI Playback has been disabled.”

Good luck! :)

Tom

[JokersWild]

Ive downloaded and Intalled the Sound Blaster Audio PCI 128D driver but i went to "my computer properties then device manager and under sound video, game controller. It doesn't show the sound blaster driver I Installed. I have allready put the eapci2m.ecw waveset in the C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS directory so now I have no idea what to do. In the Device Manager it has a little yellow "?" that says "Other Devices" under that it says "PCI Multimedia Audio Device" ive tried reinstalling the drivers for that but it failed. so how do I get my sound blaster audio PCI 128D driver to show up in Device Manager?