help with soundblaster 16

[Guest]

Hi everbody,
I have the following system:

Intel p233mHz MMX
Intel 430 TX motherboard
128 SDRAM
cd-rom
sound blaster 16
matrox millenium 2 mb
diamond monster II 8MB
win98 se

The problem is that my sound blaster 16 doesn't work in windows. I go to device manager, under settings, and its there. Under sound, video, and game controllers. Click on that and there is a yellow exclamation mark next to Creative sound blaster 16 plug and play. Click on that, and I get the following message."This device is either not present, not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed". Well it is there, and I did reinstall the drivers. So what could it be. Anybody have any ideas?

 

[hollett]

Is it the plug 'n' Play or has it got about 30 jumpers on it.
If it's a P'n'P card take out of system remove the drivers and power up. then shut down and reinstall the card. Windows should now detect the card during powerup.
If it's a legacy card (pre P'n'P) then make sure that the IRQ (Default 5) is not used by another device.

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[arsend]

Also, make sure that if it is PCI, that it is in slot #3. if this doesn't work, plus the instructions from the post above, you may have a defective card, motherboard or both.

If it works for you then don't fix it.