I think I have ruined my sound card (ESS 1869 Plug and Play
Audio Drive) because I get GPL car sounds that play the
scale when acceleration occurs - kinda sounds like PC games
from the early 80's - DTR sound is all staccato sounds too, but
not the now musical notes from the GPL exhausts.
It was all my fault as I did
at least 3 horrible (and dumb) things to the card:
(sorry about the order of events 2,1,3)
2. I deselected it as my sound card and then fired up GPL
(the opening GPL screen was on for an instant and then
vanished in an alarming manner, like POOF!)
1. I forced updated drivers on it by drag and drop
(file system error 1026 when I try to delete the error
flag on the Desktop)
3. And believe it or not I tried to further update its drivers
(half of which it didn't want but I somehow coaxed it into
accepting some of them)
Despite my gross incompetence is there anyone out there that
might have an idea about how this might be fixed from a Control
Panel or such? My only defense is the insanity one unfortunately!
PII, 400 MHz, 64 MB, W95 and my *wheel* is a MS Sidewinder Freestyle
Pro lashed to an old DOS wheel (it's fun to use, believe it or not!)
TIA
Chris R
I am no tech guru but give this a try.
get rid of all references to the sound card everywhere you can
in control panel use remove program, then device manager, the registry
etc etc.
turn off your computer
take out the card
turn on your computer
doublecheck that all references to the sound card are gone
reinstall the card
turn on the computer
go thru a "normal" setup
Good Luck
JM
