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Soundcard driver for Orchid Soundwave 32 in NT 4.0

I haven't found any drivers for this soundcard anywhere on Orchid's site. Are there any beta, selfmade or compatible drivers for this soundcard?

I have tried Soundblaster and the generic (CS4232) Crystal drivers. Please help me with this problem.

petar

Short answer is not the one you want to hear. I have friends with this card and after an exhaustive search over many months we have found nothing towards a solution to this problem.

Trust me. I have looked!

johnog

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I got a mail from one guy who said that these problem was solved in NT 3.51 the following way: Boot up dos with the Orchid drivers to initialize the soundcard. Then boot up NT 3.51 and enable the standard soundblaster drivers. I haven't tried this yet in NT 4.0 but I am going to...

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johnog

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I asked about beta, selfmade or COMPATIBLE drivers. I am not accepting this response (ref: improper use of equipment), because I have got several answers from people who has used other drivers like SB or Crystal drivers. By experience I know that the chipset on my soundcard is used on other soundcards too (linux).
I have two good reasons for keeping this soundcard:
1. I own a SCSI cdrom. SW32 has a SCSI interface. I don't want to by another SCSI controller yet because this one works.
2. The sound quality compared to SB16, OPTI or any other card in the $100 range is poor. I could by a SB32 or Turtle Beach, but it is gonna be too expensive when I also will need a SCSI controller.

Has anyone got a sollution to this problem?
Please contact me at: johnog@stud.hitos.no