I have a collection of Sound Blaster ISA cards based drivers and utilities. Just wondering if anyone is interested in any of these. I have collected these from various sites and some are from my own driver disks too.
Big thanks goes to Amigaz for sharing his AWE32 Dos/Win3.11 installation disk images! ? I was searching for these for so long after my cousin lost them!
3.) (And to the Great Vogons Moderators) : Is it possible to host these files here, under a new Drivers Section perhaps? I believe this will be helpful for fellow vintage gamers to get what is needed here itself rather than searching at many different places. Besides, these drivers are being heavily used by vogons residents.
The whole of Archives is about 84.8MB.
And the Soundblaster Drivers folder size is about 250MB. (The bulk of this is caused by the full AWE64 CD folder.
There'll be a few repetitions here and there, but it won't cost so much space.
I have uploaded all files. For convenience sake, I have zipped/rar-ed every folder. There are a total of 49 files. Sorry I'm not able to upload the AWE64CD, since mediafire says I need to be a pro user. It's size comes to 161MB, after compressing with winrar using best compression method.
Malik, megaupload is much much more convenient in uploading than mediafire. But then again I am a big supporter of megaupload, and yes I am a member there. And there you can upload the whoel shebang, and their max upload size is 1 gigabyte if I am not wrong.
I had to use rar for a slightly better compression than the more common zip, though I forgot to use 7zip. Sorry for the incovenience, but for those who are not having a rar decompressor, you can download the free 7zip to decompress it.
ISO is 722MB, the maximum possible for a 700MB Taiyo Yuden CD-R. It may work with other CD-R media, but it is up to you to determine compatibility. Always use simulation mode first before trying on other media. If it errors, then you know it won't work!
These are old and latest version updates. The old ones are designed as upgrades for the very old original 1993 installation disks. There are also standalone "basic" old drivers included for those who want to use those for reduced memory usage. Do not use the older updates if your Creative apps has "Ensemble" or "Multimedia Decks". Refer to the index file in the "misc" directory for descriptions of the files.
(Note - E-mu Creation Studio is a package containing - the AWE64 Gold card, 8MB memory add-on module, MIDI cables, Sound Fonts CD and the co-axial digital connector bracket, and additional softwares on the cd.)
Of course, you can add your drivers too. Perhaps it's a different version.
I also have my Original SoundBlaster 1.5 installation floppies. They're in 5.25" floppies but it's been about 18 years now and I don't want to risk my 5.25" FDD getting infested with fungi. Dunno which fungus is currently colonizing the floppies now. I only have one 5.25" FDD cleaner. ?
I have just recently reformatted and installed Windows XP SP3 I installed all the required drivers and everything seems to work besides the sound so I checked the device manager and I have "multimedia audio controller" with a yellow question mark next to it under "other devices" I've had this same problem before when I reformatted the drive but I forgot how I fixed it it was awhile back
I've googled the problem and tried all the suggest fixes and none of them seem to work but I have read I have two audio devices one is integrated one is a PCI so what I did was I went into the bios and turned off the integrated audio but it didn't fix anything if anyone could help me fix this problem it would be great
Sorry about that I edited it and I've already installed the drivers from the dell website and I still end up with the yellow question mark next to the "multimedia audio controller" I'm not sure if this is correct but I think it's the order I installed the drivers I installed the chipset driver first then all the other drivers and once I read I needed the "dell desktop system software" I installed that AFTER I installed everything else so should I do a clean install of windows xp and install the desktop system software first then the chipset driver then everything else?
If you didn't do it you need to install the Intel chipset drivers and then the applicable Dell sound driver. If you have a PCI sound card (SoundBlaster) then the Integrated should be disabled in the BIOS. The Multimedia Audio Controller is part of the sound drivers.
The Dell downloads show a SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS sound card and if you got it with the PC that is what is installed. You should have received a Drivers and Utilities disc that has the chipset drivers on it and a separate disc with the Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS drivers.
You need the driver for the SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS sound card, which is a PCI device. If you don't have the original Dell supplied disc with the driver you may be in trouble. There is a driver "update" on the Dell downloads but not the full driver. This has been an issue for several years and not just on the 8400 - on other systems that Dell supplied the Audigy 2ZS sound card. Some have had success using the retail Audigy 2ZS driver from the Creative (Soundblaster) site and others couldn't get it to work.
I'm having a similar problem. I have recently installed Windows 7 Professional on my Dell Dimension 8400 and now the whole audio system is out even if it's turned on. The icon in the bottom right corner of the screen shows an "X" over the sound icon. If I click on it it says it can't find any audio output hardware. Can someone please help me?
The DevCon utility is a command-line utility that acts as an alternative to Device Manager. Using DevCon, you can enable, disable, restart, update, remove, and query individual devices or groups of devices. DevCon also provides information that is relevant to the driver developer and is not available in Device Manager.
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