No sound from sound card.

[JCB]

I put a used aopen sound card (ISA) in my cousins old comp and I am having troubles getting sound out of it.
I installed the card and everything appeared to be fine. Here are my problems.
I cannot get the volume control to display. It is not showing down by the clock and if I try to go to it directly through sndvol32.exe nothing comes up when I go to click on it. If I go into the control panel and go to multimedia and click on the audio tab it says, I believe, "no device enabled" in the sound playback, sound recording, and midi music playback under the preferred device drop down boxes. When I click on the devices tab and goto multimedia devices>audio devices>audio for XXXXXX it says something like status:device not enabled or device not funtioning properly. If I go into device manager everything appears to be normal. There are no conficts showing anywhere even in the system information. I dont know what the problem could be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[andyms18a]

did you install the drivers for the sound card

[JCB]

Yes, they installed with no problems

[newme]

when you installed did you get the( found new hardware) did the card look like it was recognized.if not remove all audio in device manager ,shut down and make sure the card is pushed all the way in,reboot and install the drivers.

[JCB]

Windows found the device when it was first installed like it normally does with a PnP device. I removed everything from the device manager associated with the sound card and reinstalled again but got the same thing the second time around.

[andyms18a]

you must have a option in the bios to enable isa devices also make shore no pci card are in the slot next to the isa slot as that will disable the isa

[JCB]

There is no slot in use next to the sound card

[newme]

do you have another computer you can try it in.

[JCB]

No, all 3 of my comps I have now only have PCI slots.

[andyms18a]

if no sound is coming, and the device is pluged in,you have loaded the drivers,but it still will not sing, the only real option is to throw it in the bin.

[mike breck]

glc would be your man for this question.

What windows version are you running?

Is the "Show volume control on the taskbar" box ticked in the Multimedia box?

The fact that no device is listed in Playback and Recording usually points to the drivers not being installed. Are you sure you're using the proper drivers and that they are infact installed?

Is the soundcard properly identified in Device Manager?

What IRQ is the Soundcard using according to Device Manager?

Most SB compatible soundcards look for IRQ 5 to be free.

Try reserving IRQ 5 for Legacy Device in the BIOS.

Does the soundcard have any jumpers that need to be set?

[JCB]

1.The comp is running win98se
2.The show volume control on the taskbar is greyed out because it is not an option because the soundcard isnt being recongnized in the multimedia box.
3.I went to aopen.com and got the drivers for win95. There are no drivers for win98 but I know the 95 drivers will work for 98 because I used them in the past.
4.The sound card is showing in the device manager with no confilcts at all.
5.I think its on IRQ 5 but dont hold me to that.
6.No jumpers on the card.

[mike breck]

Start>Run and type in MSINFO32
Click Hardware Resources and then IRQs
After a few seconds, it will list the IRQ usage

That should tell you if the card has been assigned and is using an IRQ.

[glc]

Which model AOpen sound card is this? What is the main chipset - ESS 1868? Creative Vibra 16? Analog Devices 1816?

[andyms18a]

i was just wondering dose a ISA sound card nead a line in the autoexe.bat or config.sys to tel windows to load the 16bit drivers at bootup

[v1r4L fr3nzy]

Does you motherboard have onboard sound? If it does you must disable this in order for the sound output to be redirected through the sound card. You can disable it in the BIOS.

[JCB]

It is an aopen fx3d plus card with an ad1816 chipset. Here is a link http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/sound/fx3dplus.htm

The mobo does not have onboard sound.

[glc]

andy: The only autoexec entries an ISA sound card needs is "set blaster" to establish IRQ, etc. for DOS emulation as long as Windows has true 32 bit drivers installed.

JCB: I've had issues with that particular card in Win9x - it's an IRQ hog, it requires 2 separate non-shared IRQ's, preferably 5 and either 9, 10, or 11. It also needs "single mode DMA" enabled - this is buried in advanced multimedia properties in Control Panel.

Try searching driverguide.com for a generic AD1816 driver, it may work better than the AOpen driver.

[andyms18a]

thanks for the info glc

[JCB]

Yes, thanks for all of the help. Im going over to my cousins house today to try and get it to work. Ill take the info GLC gave and try to get it working. Ill post when im done to let you know how it went.