sound card trouble in winME

[Lorax]

ok i am running winME and most things seem to be working fine.

my sound card, a diamond mx300, looks like it is properly installed in the device manager, but i cant seem to get any sound out of it. (i have sound blaster emulation disabled because it messed up my computer before, in win98)

any help?

thanks.

 

[Darksamie]

I have installed Liveware 3 and patch for my SoundBlaster Live! and it seems stable, but can cause some screwups now and again. Have you got the drivers specifically for WinMe for your sound card?

It seems the biggest problem WinMe has is drivers....

 

[Lorax]

no i went to the diamond/s3 page and they are hardly supporting the mx300 anymore, its in their "legacy" section.

does anyone know if there are vortex2 reference drivers out there that are made for winme?

 

[rocmonster]

Your mx300 card uses the Aureal Vortex 2 (AU8830) chipset. You can find drivers for your card if you scroll down to file "9x2048.zip.

Just delete the crappy diamond drivers and re-install with the Aureal drivers and it should work.

 

[aventari]

I had the problem w/ my mx-300 locking up the PC when sound would play in ME. I was running the mx-300 drivers that came on the disk.
I was going to try the the vortex2 reference drivers, but i just bought an SD Live! instead. heh a bit easier.

I would try the reference drivers though