URGENT: IS THIS CARD DEAD? (Cubasis VST Project Pack)

Posted on Jan 03, 2003 03:52 am
Brendo
Member Since: Jan 03, 2003

I'm helping a friend set up an old Cubasis VST project pack that he got for Xmas. You know, the kind that came with Cubasis VST on a CD and came with a "Project card" which is a sound card which was an upgrade from most existing cards at the time but is now beaten by my sblive...

I open the PC and insert the card into the slot. I turn the PC on. It's dead. I turn it off and remove said card. Turn it on. Works perfectly, so I assume it's the onboard audio conflicting with it, so I disable that. Replace card, turn it on. Dead computer, strange burning smell. Turn it off immediately, clean layer upon layer of dust out of computer. Remove card, turn on. Works fine.

I assume that this must be some sort of IRQ conflict. So I bring it home to test it in my PC.

I put it in the system, and it powers up. Hooray!

I pause the screen on the BIOS information:

Secondary IDE on IRQ 15
Primary IDE on IRQ 14
TV Tuner card on IRQ 12
TNT2 Video on IRQ 11
USB & Sblive on IRQ 10


There's another video card in the computer, and it's disabled, I'll get around to enabling it soon. It's in slot 4, the tuner is in slot 5, the sblive is in slot 3.

The project card is in slot 2. The BIOS screen says "Unknown Device in Slot 2"

Unknown Device? Does this mean that it doesn't recognise it as a sound card, or it doesn't recognise it at all?

Now that I'm in windows, it hasn't detected any new hardware or asked me to install drivers, which I was expecting... I couldn't install them anyway, since it only has 9x drivers and I'm on win2k, but I wasn't expecting to be able to use it anyway, just test it and see it ask me for drivers. And it hasn't asked.

It doesn't show up in Device Manager or System Information and I'm kinda getting worried that the card is completely dead.

I can't locate windows 2000 drivers but it doesn't matter anyway since my computer can't locate the card!

Anybody got any suggestions here? I need as much information as I can gather in the next 13 or so hours...

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