#!%& Soundcard!
Posted: 2005-05-24 04:05pm
Yes, my rig is acting up. Again. This time it's the damn soundcard. I have a Soundblaster Live! 5.1 that has always been a piece of shit and for some reason I can't even get any drivers for it off the net, the ones that I'm always offered when I do try to find them tell me that no such device exists on my machine. So I decided to switch back to my old Aureal Vortex that was always better performance wise and never gave me any hassle. Until now.
Thing is, it works like a charm on my WinXP installation due to some new and improved drivers somebody had kindly enough written. But the Win98 I've got on my second hard drive, buy does that one get fucked up. Installing the Aureal Vortex drivers dynamically disables primary and secondary IDE controllers and they do not get back online until the drivers are removed. This is, to say the least, vexing.
In case anybody is wondering about the primay IDE controller, that's the one that has my WinXP HD on it, the secondary has my DVD-drive. My Win98 drive is in my primary UDMA controller (primary EXT), which the XP installation can't even see, so it works just fine. But it would be rather annoying to fiddle with the damned cables every time I want to switch from one system to the other.
Has anybody else ever encountered anything similar? My machine is five years old, so it's pretty ancient. I suspect part of the problem is the Abit BP6 mobo and how §the buses on that are implemented, but at least half of this shit is due to Windows. When I only ran Windows 98 (up until last September), I didn't have any problems because I had no hard drives on the normal IDE controllers, just on the EXT ones, so this problem never appeared. But because WinXP doesn't even recognize the UDMA buses, I'm no longer in that happy position.
Any help would be appreciated.
Edi
Thing is, it works like a charm on my WinXP installation due to some new and improved drivers somebody had kindly enough written. But the Win98 I've got on my second hard drive, buy does that one get fucked up. Installing the Aureal Vortex drivers dynamically disables primary and secondary IDE controllers and they do not get back online until the drivers are removed. This is, to say the least, vexing.
In case anybody is wondering about the primay IDE controller, that's the one that has my WinXP HD on it, the secondary has my DVD-drive. My Win98 drive is in my primary UDMA controller (primary EXT), which the XP installation can't even see, so it works just fine. But it would be rather annoying to fiddle with the damned cables every time I want to switch from one system to the other.
Has anybody else ever encountered anything similar? My machine is five years old, so it's pretty ancient. I suspect part of the problem is the Abit BP6 mobo and how §the buses on that are implemented, but at least half of this shit is due to Windows. When I only ran Windows 98 (up until last September), I didn't have any problems because I had no hard drives on the normal IDE controllers, just on the EXT ones, so this problem never appeared. But because WinXP doesn't even recognize the UDMA buses, I'm no longer in that happy position.
Any help would be appreciated.
Edi
