Martin,

Is Win98 using the drivers that a distribution with the operating system. If
so, this is your problem. There is a bug in Win98 that involves that card.
My suggestion would be to unisntall the drivers that are currently installed
and reinstall the drivers that came on the Ensoniq CD. Just for your
reference, I have also had problems installing the card using the latest
drivers that are available from Creative. The drivers on the CD, however, I
have used without incident.

----- Original Message -----
> My PC recently crashed (multiple power outages while unattended).  The
main
> FAT was damaged and a few files were crosslinked.  Without a full
> re-installation, only the sound card does not function properly now.
> PC:  Win98,AMD K6/2 450 with 128MB DIMM on FIC VA503+ v1.2a, EIDE UDMA/33
> hard drive, Diamond Viper 770 video, ISA PnP modem, Realtek PCI NIC (for
> cable modem), PS/2 mouse
> DEVICE MGR shows sound card devices installed and enabled with no problems
> (IRQ11/DMA1 - AudioPCI, Legacy support, and gameport driver which I don't
> use but it's there anyway).  I tried removing card, restart & shut down
PC,
> then reinserting card.  Also tried manually deleting drivers with card
> reinsertion to verify driver file integrity.  I tested the card on a
> different (similar) PC and it functions properly.
> In Control Panel, opening Multimedia, the Audio and MIDI tabs are grayed
out
> (no preferred devices and cannot select).  The Devices tab for Audio,
MIDI,
> Mixer, and Line Input correctly shows AudioPCI devices.
> What is the problem here and what's the fix (short of install all from
> scratch)?



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