SoundBlaster pci128 midi fnarked

[jane@no.spam.com]

This card was working fine until I installed "the latest creative
drives" (which I dl'd from Creative's site). Once I loaded those
drivers, the midi player became disabled somehow. Midi files would no
longer play.

What I did (after reloading the new drivers a second time with the
same results):

1. Uninstalled all software for the sound card.
2. Went to Device Mgr and Removed all occurrances of PCI128

Rebooted.

Put in original CD for the sound card and loaded drivers.

Result:
The card now plays uncomplicated midi files (like sound effects), but
it only plays a single track from multi-track midi files. For example
I can only hear the strings in a classical music midi file, or only
the bass in another, or maybe only the piano in another...and 50% of
the midi files, don't play at all. That is, in the Midi Device player,
if you click Play List a list of midi files comes up. (These came with
PCI128). Only half of them play, and the other half only partially
play. Tracks are dropped. Am I missing a .dll or something??

HELP!

OS is Win98--not SE-- with tons of available mem and gig space.

Thanks!
Jane

[Razzpy]

Lots of fun....

First remove drivers/software as you did before.

Next REMOVE the soundblaster and reboot - come up with NO sound capability at
all

Next shut off system and replace the Soundblaster card.

Finally reboot and reload all the software.

Should work for you. I had to do just that on my ME system. On 98, just had
to load the card after removing the old on board one.

Hope this helps...

Rich R.

[jane@nospam.com]

razzpy@aol.com (Razzpy) wrote:

>Lots of fun....
>
>First remove drivers/software as you did before.
>
>Next REMOVE the soundblaster and reboot - come up with NO sound capability at
>all
>
>Next shut off system and replace the Soundblaster card.
>
>Finally reboot and reload all the software.
>
>Should work for you. I had to do just that on my ME system. On 98, just had
>to load the card after removing the old on board one.
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>Rich R.
>

argh. I was hoping to avoid that. :) (Just cos it's a hassle, not cos
it's a big deal.) ... was just hoping someone would say, "Oh! That's
easy! You're blahblah file is corrupted. DL it here and have fun!" But
why would that happen? :D

Thanks,
Jane

[Shep©]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:25:10 GMT, In this world we created Jane
(jane@no.spam.com) wrote :

>This card was working fine until I installed "the latest creative
>drives" (which I dl'd from Creative's site). Once I loaded those
>drivers, the midi player became disabled somehow. Midi files would no
>longer play.
>
>What I did (after reloading the new drivers a second time with the
>same results):
>
>1. Uninstalled all software for the sound card.
>2. Went to Device Mgr and Removed all occurrances of PCI128
>
>Rebooted.
>
>Put in original CD for the sound card and loaded drivers.
>
>Result:
>The card now plays uncomplicated midi files (like sound effects), but
>it only plays a single track from multi-track midi files. For example
>I can only hear the strings in a classical music midi file, or only
>the bass in another, or maybe only the piano in another...and 50% of
>the midi files, don't play at all. That is, in the Midi Device player,
>if you click Play List a list of midi files comes up. (These came with
>PCI128). Only half of them play, and the other half only partially
>play. Tracks are dropped. Am I missing a .dll or something??
>
>HELP!
>
>OS is Win98--not SE-- with tons of available mem and gig space.
>
>Thanks!
>Jane

With the system switched off pull the card out.
Boot to Safemode/Control Panel/Add Remove Programs and remove the
drivers/software.
Whilst in Safemode also go Control Panel/System/Device Manager and
remove ALL entries under the sound video and games controllers
section.
Shutdown and re-insert card firmly and correctly.
Re-boot and when prompted supply the drivers disk.
More info on why to use Safemode here,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/drivers.html
If this doesn't cure it there's more you can do and there are some
updated drivers and software that you can install for these cards but
they have to be done in the correct order.

HTH :)



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[jane@no.spam.com]

Taking the card out, booting, removing drivers/devices within safe
mode, shut down, reinstall card, booting, reinstalling software,
worked.

Thanks for your help.

Jane

[Shep©]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:53:06 GMT, In this world we created Jane
(jane@no.spam.com) wrote :

>Taking the card out, booting, removing drivers/devices within safe
>mode, shut down, reinstall card, booting, reinstalling software,
>worked.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Jane

No problem :O)



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