Sound is Gone

The sound card requires powered speakers... you have got powered speakers? They are turned on with the volume on the speakers up and plugged into the green jack on the sound card?

Can I confirm you are using 98SE and not 98 1st or gold edition?

Direct link to Dell drivers These seem to be different from the download offered for your machine.... 19mb, but it appears to be the file from the original resource CD. This driver will only work if you have 98SE.

I found this at the Dell forums it is another driver, but not one made by creative... some one finally go fedup with the Creative/Dell driver problems and wrote one... apparently this has solved many a problem... but again requires a minimum of Windows 98SE

I have found one place that states it has the full 63 mb download... but I think you are on dialup?

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Originally Posted by NooNoo

The sound card requires powered speakers... you have got powered speakers?
[COLOR=DarkRed]Yes/COLOR]They are turned on with the volume on the speakers up and plugged into the green jack on the sound card? yes

Can I confirm you are using 98SE and not 98 1st or gold edition?

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Direct link to Dell drivers These seem to be different from the download offered for your machine.... 19mb, but it appears to be the file from the original resource CD. This driver will only work if you have 98SE.

I found this at the Dell forums it is another driver, but not one made by creative... some one finally go fedup with the Creative/Dell driver problems and wrote one... apparently this has solved many a problem... but again requires a minimum of Windows 98SE

I have found one place that states it has the full 63 mb download... but I think you are on dialup?

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yes, I am on dialup & don't even have the option of DSL. As I said earlier, I live in the boonies. We don't even have cable TV here. Satellite is the only fast option for me but it is still VERY expensive.

I am off to church. I'll check back later.

OK well download the drivers from dell first, if they work good, if not try the others, if not... well that's it, I am out of ideas without looking at the machine for myself.... If it was in front of me I would test the card in another machine first of all, if it did work, then I would format and reinstall 98se, and then I would download the 90mb file and install the sound drivers first before ANYTHING else. If that didn't work, I would buy the cmedia card.

Thanks for all your suggestions. The Dell links to a very big file. I will try to download it now, but may have to wait until overnight, if I can't get a stable connection.

I would have tried the sound card in a different computer too if I had one available. I have a Gateway 2000 skeleton that we stripped the drives out of but that wouldn't be of any use. It still has an old Ensoniq sound card in it, but it wasn't working when I started dismantling it. (It had been working but quit, so I really don't think it is any good.)

As for my monitor color, I have my monitor color back. You were helpful there too. There was a broken pin in the connector. I cut a paper clip & inserted a short piece into the pin hole where the broken pin was. The pin broke with a small amount of exposed metal remaining so that the 2 pieces touch when the monitor is plugged in. I have my fingers crossed that this fix will hold.

Very resourceful on the monitor plug pin... as long as it doesn't wiggle too much it should be ok.

After 2 1/2 hours the download was complete. I copied it to the downloads folder. Now what?

As before, boot to safe mode and remove the sound driver software from Add/Remove Programs, then remove the sound card, game port, sb emulation etc from Device Manager. Reboot to normal mode and the card will detect, then install the driver by copying it to the hard drive in a folder you can find such as C:\sound then double clicking the file and following the install wizard.

"Uncle!"
I followed the above. (BTW: the setup said that this driver was for the 517 card.) Crash! The computer would not load Windows. I restarted in Safe. Read "Help" for the symptom. It said to restart in step-by-step confirmation & skip 2 files. I was able to skip "autoexec" but couldn't skip "config.sys" because the computer again froze. I restarted from Windows Startup floppy. Okay, now I can restart but not directly to Windows. I always get the screen that gives options. When I select option #1 Normal, the computer does start up. Now my display adapter had to be reinstalled. The sound card still does not work.

I packed up the computer and delivered it to the nearest town with a computer repair shop. I will let you know what they have to say.

Again, thanks again for all the help.

I was apparently beating my head against a stone wall trying to get my sound card to work. This is the email I got today from the repairman:

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neither one of the sound cards you brought in are good
one - the only thing that works on it is the joy stick
the other - has no sound output
I have an Ensoniq sound card installed and working

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I picked it up & brought it home. It is working.
The other issue of starting with the non-Windows screen still bothers me, but I think I will just leave it alone as it really doesn't interfere with the functioning.

I'm glad to hear you got it sorted out. I'll bet Noo is raising a glass,(bottle) of scotch in celebration...:drink:

Cheers!

Glad to see my instincts were right on the money still... page 6 I wrote off that damn card!! But because it detects and I couldn't personally test it, all I could do was give you everything it might have been.

You did Good!

Happy Thanksgiving all!