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by guy west

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I have an Ensoniq Soundscape Vivo 90 soundcard in a Gateway PentPro200 box running Win98SE. It will play wav files but not mid files. It won't play mp3's out of Napster's internal player but will play them out of WinMedia Player just fine. When it plays windows sounds I hear part of the correct sound surrounded by white noise. The Gateway book on the sound card says that if it will play either one of the sounds but not the other that the problem is internal and has nothing to do with the audio system. I've tried switching sound cards and speakers to no avail. Anyone out there have a clue?
Thanks in advance.

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by burtonizer

curious...if you switched out the sound cards and still have the same problem, then the problem can't be with the card ~ according to Gateway, the drivers included with Windows 98 are what you need to operate the Vivo soundcard...and they also say that the E-1400 computer does not support midi... strange! When you installed a different sound card, I would make sure that all reference/software to the Vivo is uninstalled and try again. If that doesn't work, and there are no hardware conflicts, no on-board sound options, then you have that E-1400 system. Good luck!

by guy west

I tried everything you suggested with no luck, and I don't have the E-1400 system. One strange thing is that the sounds worked correctly when I first acquired the system.
What software/hardware had I changed or loaded or uninstalled when I first noticed the problem? Unfortunately I don't recall, I've had the problem for a few months now and ignored it until a few weeks ago. Thanks for your help...

by estebandelatorre

Curious.
Try to assign a "LegacyISA" irq to the one that is holded by the sound card (usuarlly irq 5) (In C-Mos setup). Then verify that the irq's sound card is not shared in control panel /system/ dev. manager.
Also watch in cmos setup if you have an entry like "sound card configuration", it should be disabled.
Then you should remove and then reinstall all your sound drivers.

Good Luck

by sparky4

What you're describing sounds like an IRQ conflict between the sound card and something else. If the sound card isn't PnP, make sure that the IRQ assigned by the BIOS, or set on jumpers on the card, is the same one used in Windows for the card. Alsolook for a set blaster=xxxxxxxxxxxx line in autoexec.bat and make sure that the Ix is the same number. Common settings for a sound card are:

IRQ 5, DMA 1 low DMA 5 high, I/O 220
as well, they often use I/O 600 or 630 and IRQ 9 or 11 or somethingfor the midi synth.

by guy west

No IRQ conflict here, nor any other conflicts. Autoexec.bat is OK. Thanks for your help...

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