You might want to just open the machine up and take a look at the sound card to get
the brand name and type. If it's integrated on the board you can track drivers down with the motherboard name.
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Compaq Deskpro EN Audio drivers
Hi, I don't know if this question would exactly fit the 'Hardware/Desktops' subject area, but I thought it would be best for now. Well I have a Compaq Deskpro EN and I'm running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (I know I know, wierd to have a corporate operating system on a slower machine, but this time it makes sense because the operating system is faster than Microsoft Windows XP Professional on load times, etc.). The thing about this operating system is that it doesn't load the audio drivers that Windows XP Professional does since it's not expected to have an older audio card on a server running on a new older operating system.
The first question I have is, how do I find out what kind of Compaq Deskpro EN do I have? I ask this because I've rigorously looked through the Compaq/HP website and I have no clue which model this is... It seems there are so many different versions of this Compaq Deskpro EN that it's 'seemingly' impossible to differenciate them from one another except for actual system specs, which I also can't find for each model. Everytime I try looking for a model's specific specs... I get generic names and titles with little info. The only big details I can give you about this comp when i bought it is this...
Processor: Pentium II 400Mhz
CD-ROM Drive: Yes
Default Hard-drive: 6 Gigs
Default Video Card: 4Mb ATI Rage, 2XAGP
(Default) RAM: 64MB
*What I mean by default is that I'm assuming those are the specs you'll probably find in the factory package from Compaq (back in the day).
OK, once we've found out the real model number of this Compaq, then we should be able to know what kind of sound card is in this thing. So my second question: What kind of sound card do I have and where can I find the drivers?
Like I said earlier, I looked all over the Compaq website and found some audio drivers and such for different systems... I tried out quite a bit and to no avail I've found none that seem to work...
If anyone can help, Thank You in advance.
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Ok great, Everest helped alot. It showed me that my sound card is made by a company called "ESS Technology, Inc." and the model of my sound card is ES1869 (So the full name for the soundcard would be ESS ES1869). ESS does somewhat provide drivers for their sound cards at http://www.esstech.com/tec
Well the closest I came other than the official site when it comes to driver support for my sound card for Windows XP or 2003 is a driver that was ripped from the Windows Me CD (found off of www.driverguide.com), but it didn't work me. So I was left only to insert my Microsoft Windows XP Professional CD and trying to find it there... I found some files that the 'Windows Me driver rip' had, but not all... but when i tried using the inf's and such that i ripped from my Windows XP Pro cd.. they were all corrupted (probably because they were compressed).
So my actual question is, Where can I get this infamous ESS ES1869 sound card driver for Windows XP/2003 Server? (I'm pretty sure if any drivers are found that come remotly close they'll be for XP, but could be backwards compatible to 2003 Server). Or if the answer is to get them from my Microsoft Windows XP Professional CD, then which exact ones should I grab and how do uncompress/extract them so that they'll work?
See if this will work - it says it's for Win 2003 Server: http://www.soundcard-drive
Brabo, I checked that site before, but obviously not good enough. Thanks but another unexpected thing came up.... initially i saw in the Device Manager two undetected devices...
Audio device
Other Input
Now they aren't there and the its been replaced with the actual devices, BUT two new little devices come up with the error
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
under the category 'Sound, video and game controllers'
The names of the devices (or whatever they are) are...
Microsoft Kernel DLS Synthesizer
and
Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer
If you can get this answer... I'll pass on the rest of the 115 points that I have as bonus :P lol and thanks though
Actually my last answer was a little premature... Ignore what i last said lol. Turns out those Microsoft Windows Server 2003 drivers for my ESS ES1869 sound card were perfect.... just needed to restart and then reinstall... I guess those last errors were a result of me playing around with some Microsoft Windows Me audio drivers for the same card... So yeah thanks.
Oh and a second major thing that I found about Microsoft Windows Server 2003 that came to a result of my audio was that the 'Windows Audio' service is disabled so you'd have to go to
Start Menu> Programs> Administrative Tools> Services
and then enabled Windows Audio and set it to automatic. Because on default, Windows Server 2003 disables much vital workstation services like Windows Audio, CD Burning, and even Direct X.
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by: CallandorPosted on 2004-06-28 at 07:22:26ID: 11415916
Everest is usually good at identifying components and giving you a link for the right drivers to use:
Everest
http://www.lavalys.com/ind