thunderchicken
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Sound Card Problem
I recently upgraded to Win2K and I have a Turtle Beach Montego II sound card. My Motherboard is an ASUS KV7133 with 1.5Gb Ram and 1.33Ghz T-Bird. It has an integrated Sound Card, but I disabled it. The problem I am having is when I am playing music on Winamp and if I run another application that uses the sound card, it will quit working. I'd go to device manager and it would say it's working, but it's not. I have to reboot to get the sound to work. I tried updating the driver, but that didn't help.
I know it isn't supported for Win2K, but I've never had this problem before with my old computer.
Any suggestions?
I know it isn't supported for Win2K, but I've never had this problem before with my old computer.
Any suggestions?
ASKER
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Hi,
unsupported hardware doesn't have to ALWAYS not work, but if it doesn't work in several cases, it becomes unsupported. You are right, sometimes I have found it to work (been blissfully unaware it wasn't supposed to work)...other times I have found out the hard way it isn't supported, in the case of my NEC 660superscript.
HTH
Bob
unsupported hardware doesn't have to ALWAYS not work, but if it doesn't work in several cases, it becomes unsupported. You are right, sometimes I have found it to work (been blissfully unaware it wasn't supposed to work)...other times I have found out the hard way it isn't supported, in the case of my NEC 660superscript.
HTH
Bob
Hi thunderchicken. You might be able to get more input from other Experts if you would post a 0 point question in the Win 2000 forum and then post the link to this question in that question. :>)
The Crazy One
The Crazy One
I have the same sound card, Asus P3V motherboard, and tried changing to Win2k. I had the same sort of problem you do. It would work for a while, then stop until I rebooted. I wound up going back to Windows 98SE and have not had any problems with the sound card since.
Turtle Beach has been very resistant to supporting Win2k with their lower end cards. If you're set on going with Windows 2000, you may want to dump the TB card.
Turtle Beach has been very resistant to supporting Win2k with their lower end cards. If you're set on going with Windows 2000, you may want to dump the TB card.
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I use IIS to program so that isn't a problem. The value of the card is $25 now, I'm thinking of dropping it and getting a win2k compatable one.
What I have seen is that MOST soundcard mfg are hesitant to support drivers for Win2k because of the newer OSs coming out soon. Creative has been one of the biggest offenders in this area and refuse to give a release date of Win2k drivers because of the impending release of XP this fall.
oh you guys are nice...I think it all went downhill since win2k..although it is a nice os, it is also time to buy a new system...any recommendations?
<any recommendations>
If you can't build your own, then go with a Dell
If you can't build your own, then go with a Dell
I agree. :-)
<posting a question>
The reason that TB isn't supporting the card anymore is that Aureal went out of business (which was the original source of drivers since they built the chipset). Try these drivers: http://www.videologic.com/Software/SV2Win2000DriverNotes.html
Another option (a bit more involved):
http://www.vortexofsound.com/techhelp/th-v2a80.htm
I had trouble with my Monster Sound MX300 (same Aureal chipset as the Montego II). As you said, you might be better off just buying a new card. The Phillips SoundMUSE (or something to that effect) has received good reviews...the SoundBlaster LIVE seems to have just as many problems with VIA based boards. Or, just pick up a SoundBlaster 16 PCI and avoid all this mess!
-d
Another option (a bit more involved):
http://www.vortexofsound.com/techhelp/th-v2a80.htm
I had trouble with my Monster Sound MX300 (same Aureal chipset as the Montego II). As you said, you might be better off just buying a new card. The Phillips SoundMUSE (or something to that effect) has received good reviews...the SoundBlaster LIVE seems to have just as many problems with VIA based boards. Or, just pick up a SoundBlaster 16 PCI and avoid all this mess!
-d
Aureal was bought out by Creative! LOL
ASKER
Well I am going on Vacation, so I'll rephrase this and ask success stories with Win2k and sound cards. I'd like to stay under $150 for one. I'll buy based on suggestions and award points accordingly.
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I think you answered your own question when you mentioned that it worked during a session then didn't work.
To me it sounds like you have duplicate copies of one of the critical support files, perhaps one of the *.DLL.
As you download new software it will bring in these support files to insure that the new software program runs. Usually there is no check to see if that particular file already exists on your system.
Norton System Works has a program that will search for duplicates.
To me it sounds like you have duplicate copies of one of the critical support files, perhaps one of the *.DLL.
As you download new software it will bring in these support files to insure that the new software program runs. Usually there is no check to see if that particular file already exists on your system.
Norton System Works has a program that will search for duplicates.
ASKER
Went and got a compatable Win2k Sound Card.
That may explain why it doesn't work correctly
<but I've never had this problem before with my old computer.>
Was it running Win2000 too?