Ensoniq Drivers

**Mad Machinist** · May 11th, 2002, 11:16 PM

I have 6 virtually new Ensoniq ES1370 AudioPCI soundcards.....these are not creative ensoniq.....they have ensoniq printed on the circut board.
a stick on label on the back has the folowing:

E293824 AudioPCI 9718 6000566
ASSYNO: Q1 REV: E
ASSEMBLED IN USA

I have downloaded drivers till I am blue in the face and NONE of them work.......does any one have the original driver CD for this sucker......really like to use them ...the card appears to support front and rear channels.

If anyone has them I'll be happy to cover duplication and shipping cost of the CD.

Thanks in advance

Rudy

**Platypus** · May 12th, 2002, 04:03 AM

The Ensoniq's are picky about having the right drivers. However even a boxed retail Creative PCI may still just have ENSONIQ silk screened on the board (I use one myself - 1371 chipset).

Usually, the 1370 chipset indicates an OEM card, and I find the retail drivers don't work for them. I have drivers that should work, but the file is 17M, so I guess I can't email it to you.

As you suggest, finding the driver CD for the OEM card would be the best solution.

It's also important to ensure that previous versions of the drivers are correctly removed before installing alternatives, otherwise the installer can get locked in a confused loop of not being able to either install or un-install.

**freddy** · May 12th, 2002, 04:09 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Platypus:
The Ensoniq's are picky about having the right drivers. However even a boxed retail Creative PCI may still just have ENSONIQ silk screened on the board (I use one myself).

Usually, the 1370 chipset indicates an OEM card, and I find the retail drivers don't work for them. I have drivers that should work, but the file is 17M, so I guess I can't email it to you.

As you suggest, finding the driver CD for the OEM card would be the best solution.<hr /></blockquote>have used those cards myself , arn,t there 3 midi (or summot) files that load in win.sys 1x2m 1x4meg 1x8meg ? and if u dont load them you get a horrible message on bootup?

ps just looked on driversguide and spotted this one ,,,,,give it a try <a href="http://www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads9/5203.html" target="_blank">http://www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads9/5203.html</a>

**Platypus** · May 12th, 2002, 04:21 AM

The loadable wavesets are 2M, 4M or 8M, although the 8M set only comes with the Retail card. The choice is made in the driver, but I don't know what happens if it doesn't load, I guess there would be an error message. I don't see any WIN.INI or SYSTEM.INI entry that is clearly for the waveset, if that's what you mean.

**Mad Machinist** · May 12th, 2002, 12:03 PM

Freddy.....I'll give that one a try....I missed it on driver guide....also found one on a russian language site that had all the .dll files several versions have asked for.....and as far as interference from previous versions...I have been experimenting on two boxes with fresh installs of win 98se......thank for the help.....I'll keep ya'll posted.