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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Multimedia / April 2004ESS1688 Plug and Play Audio Drive
I have an ESS1688 AudioDrive installed in my Compaq LTE 5300 Laptop. I am unable to hear any sounds. I can hear the following sounds: system beeps. I know that these sounds do not come from the sound card, but the system speaker. However, when I play MS-DOS based games using the SET BLASTER command in the Autoexec.bat file, the sound does work. The only time the sounds do not work is within Windows. I think that the Operating System is to blame. Hi, You can fix the problem by installing the audio driver from the following URL: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Notebooks/us/download/8458.html -- Regards, R.S.Manikandan. > I have an ESS1688 AudioDrive installed in my Compaq LTE > 5300 Laptop. I am unable to hear any sounds. I can hear [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > does work. The only time the sounds do not work is within > Windows. I think that the Operating System is to blame. Hi Patrick, I've had exactly the same problem with my LTE 5280. Here's how i solved it: Firstly, it's important to understand that the standard windows drivers for the ESS1688 DO NOT WORK. Go to Device Manager, select the faulty sound icon and remove/uninstall it. Next open up windows explorer, and locate the drivers in the Windows directory (mine had 4 files - ESS1688.drv, ESS1688.vxd and a couple of others). Replace them with the files that compaq supply (found on the softpaq disk - see R.S.Manikandan's reply). Reboot. Windows should find the new hardware on startup and re-install the drivers - make sure it uses the compaq drivers and not the windows drivers. You should then get the funky volume icon in your system tray. Final note: After doing this i had full stereo sound and could play midi files ok, but the wave sounds stuttered badly. Solution - reflash the bios (see the compaq lte5000 series driver download site) and set to factory defaults. This solved the rest of my sound card problems. Hope all this helps. > I have an ESS1688 AudioDrive installed in my Compaq LTE > 5300 Laptop. I am unable to hear any sounds. I can hear [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > does work. The only time the sounds do not work is within > Windows. I think that the Operating System is to blame. In microsoft.public.win98.multimedia on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:05:13 -0700 "Patrick Vogt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted: >I have an ESS1688 AudioDrive installed in my Compaq LTE >5300 Laptop. I am unable to hear any sounds. I can hear [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >does work. The only time the sounds do not work is within >Windows. I think that the Operating System is to blame. Double click the yellow speaker in the systray and see if anything is muted. Meirman If emailing, please let me know whether or not you are posting the same letter. Change domain to erols.com, if necessary. I forgot to see if there were answers before I answered. I seem to often do that. Silly me. In microsoft.public.win98.multimedia on Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:16:41 -0400 meirman <meirman@invalid.com> posted: >In microsoft.public.win98.multimedia on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:05:13 >-0700 "Patrick Vogt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Meirman Meirman If emailing, please let me know whether or not you are posting the same letter. Change domain to erols.com, if necessary. |
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