Well, it seems I am having problems with my Turtle Beach Montego II in my new AMD Win2K box. Appears from some previous postings that the Aureal Vortex2 (which is what the Montego II is based on) has major problems on VIA chipsets. I've got a brand new Abit KT7A-RAID with an AMD TBird 1GHz. I can hear sound from the CD player, but no sound from wav files.
I have already done the 4-in-1 Via patch(used the 4.25a patch because that appeared to be the last stable one, but I did NOT add the IDE Bus Mastering patch on the advice of one website - i added it and it changed all my IDE devices to SCSI devices, even those NOT on the RAID controller. I guess I could see if it affected the sound, though...
ANyway, unless someone has another opinion, it seems that this card has too mnay problems and no one can get it working reliably w/the VIA. So, I must buy a new card. I've narrowed it to 3:
- Sound Blaster Live! (some variant)
- Philips Acoustic Edge
- TB Santa Cruz
My needs are for low S/N and ability to make digital copies of analog source (tape/LP and such). Of course, the card must work on VIA w/Athlon under Windows 2000.
So, the real question in this post - who has experiences with these combos? I really don't care about gaming (although it can't suck!), it's all about the music (without going into hi-hi-fi).
- Philips look kickass, but I can't find the product on their website and their site has problems. If I can;t get drivers and info, I dont want it!
SantaCruz is my favorite, cuz I know TB does great cards (I love my TB Montego II (aka Aureal Vorgtex2)- great board for low-price hifi!). BUT, it looks like their applications don't work in Win2000. Drivers appear OK.
SB Live - I see much critisizing of the card, but it looks like it has good specs and is stable on Win2K and VIA.
ANy comments are appreciated.
I have already done the 4-in-1 Via patch(used the 4.25a patch because that appeared to be the last stable one, but I did NOT add the IDE Bus Mastering patch on the advice of one website - i added it and it changed all my IDE devices to SCSI devices, even those NOT on the RAID controller. I guess I could see if it affected the sound, though...
ANyway, unless someone has another opinion, it seems that this card has too mnay problems and no one can get it working reliably w/the VIA. So, I must buy a new card. I've narrowed it to 3:
- Sound Blaster Live! (some variant)
- Philips Acoustic Edge
- TB Santa Cruz
My needs are for low S/N and ability to make digital copies of analog source (tape/LP and such). Of course, the card must work on VIA w/Athlon under Windows 2000.
So, the real question in this post - who has experiences with these combos? I really don't care about gaming (although it can't suck!), it's all about the music (without going into hi-hi-fi).
- Philips look kickass, but I can't find the product on their website and their site has problems. If I can;t get drivers and info, I dont want it!
SantaCruz is my favorite, cuz I know TB does great cards (I love my TB Montego II (aka Aureal Vorgtex2)- great board for low-price hifi!). BUT, it looks like their applications don't work in Win2000. Drivers appear OK.
SB Live - I see much critisizing of the card, but it looks like it has good specs and is stable on Win2K and VIA.
ANy comments are appreciated.
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