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Well, the motherboard doesn't have integrated sound (it's a Tyan s1590s).  I tried installing
DirectX 8.0 and that didn't help.  I looked at www.soundblaster.com for an updated driver and there
wasn't one.  The card does't show the little yellow sign under the control panel-- it tells me that
the "device is working properly" (at IRQ 11 and E800-E83F).  And I'm inclined to believe that it
isn't a hardware/IRQ/DMA/adress space conflict because I would suspect that to prevent the card from
working at all.  But when I play a DVD or an MPEG file from my Creative Labs Encore Dxr2 DVD decoder
board, the sound that is passed into the sound card via internal connections DOES come out my line
out.  I can even adjust the volume of that output with the Encore On Screen Display's volume
controls.  But nothing purely software can recognize the existance of the card, even though Control
Panel does.

The taskbar volume control icon, when clicked, tells me "No mixer device is loaded.  Mixer will now
exit".  When I pull up the multimedia and sounds applet in the Control Panel, the sample playing
button is greyed out.  Sound Recorder tells me there is no audio device installed.  The apps that
were bundled with the sound card tell me no sound device is installed.  Removing the device from the
System applet, rebooting, and letting it reinstall doesn't help.  Disabling other devices in Control
Panel doesn't help.  I'm running out of ideas.

On my system, I have on the PCI bus my video card, an Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI card, a Dxr2 DVD decoder
card, and this SoundBlaster.  My modem is on the ISA bus.  

Windows IS, BTW, trying to use .WDM drivers for the card.

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 20:14:13 -0800, Farley Funke <farleyfunke@nothardly.com> wrote:

>
>Is the card "banged out" (yellow exclamation points)
>in Device manager? [Control Panel/System]
>
>If so, click on Properties/Resources and check for conflicts. You may
>need to move the card's IRQ assignment or move the card to a different
>slot.
>
>I have a way to dsable Windows' driver install if it comes to that--
>it did for me. If Windows' .WDM drivers are installed, Creative's
>driver does not install properly.
>
>Windows Me Beta Tester (former, burned-out-on)
>
>
>On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 07:10:50 -0500, Darren Garrison
><cynapse@greenville.infi.net> walked right in and proclaimed thusly:
>
>>I am trying to set up a Soundblaster 16 PCI in my Windows ME machine.  Windows detects the sound
>>card with no problem and CLAIMS to be setting up drivers for it.  But no software recognizes that
>>there is a sound card installed, including the Windows control panel multimedia settings programs or
>>the Creative Labs software that came with the card.  However, when I play a DVD or an MPG file on my
>>Creative Labs PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 decoder, the sound passed through into the sound card directly from
>>the decoder card DOES play from the line out on the SoundBlaster 16 PCI.  Every time I delete the SB
>>from my hardware settings, the card is re-recognized, but programs still do not recognize it.  Any
>>tips?