> Seasons greetings everyone
>
> A friend of mine is experiencing a problem with sound. He had a ISA Sound
> Blaster 16 installed, then "upgraded" to a PCI Ensonique Audio
> PCI card. He
> removed the drivers before installing new card. Upon installing new pci
> card, and drivers, he now has an exclamation mark in the device
> manager for
> the Ensonique card... and no sound. When he starts his machine, he get an
> error: "Interrupt has been routed incorrectly by the system. Audio PCI
> Inactive. Use automatic settings in Device manager."

     Sounds like your card doesn't like sharing IRQs. Have you tried
changing which slot the card is plugged in to? If you have the manual try to
find a slot that whose IRQ isn't shared by another device on your system.
Hope this helps, TTYL

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