Spent a frustrating couple days trying to get sound cards to play nice in Windows 95.
I'm trying to build a 1997 period-correct setup and using a Diamond Monster MX100 as one of my sound cards. Unfortunately, after installing and testing the one I have, it has wavetable MIDI playback issues where it won't play back the left channel audio. It produces faint distorted audio instead. This only affects wavetable MIDI audio; digital audio is perfectly fine.
Monster Sound MX100 MX200.jpg
In contrast, the MX200 sound card works perfectly fine. I suspect the issue might be the SMD capicitor that sits between the wavetable header output and the AD1843JS chip. Alternatively, it might be the AD1843JS chip itself. But I won't know without further testing.
Then I tried to get a RAP-10 card installed and that also proved to be a disaster. While I could get the RAP-10 to work by itself, trying to install both a Diamond Monster Sound and RAP-10 resulted in a bunch of unresolvable hardware conflicts.
Monster Sound RAP-10.jpg
Making things more challenging is the RAP-10's lack of a proper Windows 95 driver (it only has a Windows 3.1 driver). After repeated attempts to remove the drivers, I ended up with no audio working whatsoever.
At this point, I nuked the entire Windows 95 install and will be starting over. 😒