🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi All,
     
     Let me first say a big THANK YOU to all that replied.  You guys are
great.  Here's the scoop:

     MY SB NOW WORKS!!!.........BEAUTIFULLY TOO!

     I downloaded the newest drivers (revision 15) and after it
rebooted, everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, about this card is
working great.  So my problems are now solved.  Hey Chris, whatever they
changed in SBW9XUP.EXE  is doing the trick for my computer.  Sorry to
see that others are not having as good of luck though.  

     Thanks to everybody that responded and have a good weekend while I
sit back and play with my newest midi sounds!

kitb at hotmail dot com

kitb@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
>      Since you are an employee of CL, I am presenting this directly to
> you.  I need an answer so please don't ignore me.  I have went to the CL
> web site and there is no workable answer there.  I have posted to
> various newsgroups and nobody there knows what to do to make this
> problem go away either.  There are many, many people having this problem
> so please, please, please help us ALL out.
> 
>      Every time I start Windows (98), I get the following error message:
> 
>              Read error in C:\Windows\System\Synthgm.sbk
>                 Can't load default synthesizer bank.
> 
> My Hardware: Pentium 233, 96 megs Ram, Windows 98, Creative Labs
> SB32/AWE PNP w/8 megs.
> 
>      The file synthgm.sbk is in the proper location (Windows\System) but
> upon every boot, it can't be loaded.  I know my card is not defective,
> nor are the simms, because I did have it working once!  I don't know how
> it happened but during my bouts of installing, reinstalling, deleting
> and reintsalling...it did work.  I got the green bar in the AWECP32.exe
> prog and the synthesizer.sbk loaded just fine.  I was able to play
> around and try out various settings.  But when I turned my computer off
> and the very next time it rebooted, there was the dreaded message of not
> loading the default synthesizer bank.
> 
>      I have followed Creative Labs instructions to a "T" for every
> install, every delete and reinstall of drivers but it (midi) won't load
> upon startup.  I've downloaded and tried all recent
> drivers.........95dosapp.exe awecp95.exe and sbw95up.exe, revision 14.
> I've tried several different installs so I'm sure that the file
> synthgm.sbk is NOT corrupted.
> 
>      The AWE32cp.exe prog shows a red bar instead of green, as it's
> supposed to, denoting that I have "0 KB of 0 KB available".  Not so.  I
> have two 4 meg simms installed.  In the "Available Synth" box (under the
> "synth" tab), it is blank but I have a choice of choosing "general midi"
> yet when I do choose it, I then get another message that reads:  "The
> selected file contains unrecognized format".  I've got several sbk files
> and it will recognize none of them.  Baloney!  It worked fine (albeit
> only once) on the very same sbk file that it now says is
> unrecognizable!
> 
>      I've made sure that in ControlPanel\Multimedia\Midi........SB AWE
> 32 Synth 620 is selected.  But I've also tried using all the other
> available settings too, just in case, but it doesn't matter.  I've also
> changed ISA slots though I figured it was useless to do, but since it
> was suggested by some kind soul that offered his advice, I tried it.  It
> didn't work either.
> 
>      Lots of us are running into this Chris.  In DejaNews there are
> numerous postings asking for help about this problem.  None of the
> suggestions are working though, at least for me, but from the amount of
> posts about this synthgm.sbk error, I have to conclude the standard
> suggestions aren't working for lots of others either.  Advice about
> downloading the current drivers and changing ISA slots and making sure
> the files are in their proper places and suggestions that I got a
> defective card are just not cutting it.  Come on Creative Labs.....it's
> time for you to get involved.  Help us out!  I've emailed you several
> times for support but so far CL won't reply.  We need support!!!!  I
> bought this card in good faith because it is THE standard in sound
> cards.  Albeit the 32/AWE is not the most current card by CL, I
> purchased it brand new just 6 months ago!  I had a standard SB16 (no
> awe) previously and had no problems with it whatsoever.  It gave me good
> service and I wanted to upgrade, (just a tad, that's all my wallet could
> afford) but what's the use since the AWE portion won't work?  I am
> begging you for the answer that DOES WORK, so please do not ignore our
> cries.  Thank you for your time and I (we ALL) truly appreciate it.
> 
> kitb at hotmail dot com