Sound card error

[swampdonkey]

Hi all,

On my mainboard I have AC'97 Audio, which I am told is not very good. I found this old sound card of mine laying around so I popped it in to see if it was any good. It is a Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128. (btw, is this card better than ac'97?) After seaching for a full day to find drivers that worked, I finally found some. I had to download drivers, then update them. I could not use any from the creative support site, none of them worked. So after finding these drivers and the update, everything seemed to be going fine. Then, after a couple of day I get this error when starting windows-

The Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI driver cannot load MIDI waveset. MIDI playback has been disabled.

What does this mean? Why am I gettting an error all of a sudden? Can someone point me in the direction of some working drivers? Does anyone else have this card?

Plz help,
~sd

EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to mention that my audio is extremely crackly when playing HALO. I dont know if this is related.

[fatboyjim]

"which I am told is not very good"

Not a good enough reason for change, imho

Also, if the AC97 is onboard, which it more than likely is, you should be disabling it in the BIOS before you start playing around installing other sound cards

If it worked before, why change it?

As for the 'sudden' error message, it could be related to the fact that you still have your onboard sound enabled...

Jim

[swampdonkey]

I did disable the onboard sound in bios. Actually, the reason I changed was because the audio became extremely crackly and fuzzy when I turned up the volume. Anyway, I decided that I am going to go back to the AC'97.

~sd