I recently purchased this Sound blaster vibra16 sound card at a local flea market for $2. It is recognized in Windows 98s plug and play and drivers are installed but no sounds come out of it. It looks like it has a lot of missing components, does it?
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They are missing, but not removed. It's a model without amplified speaker output, it has only line level output.
For comparison here is same card with TEA amp:
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Have you tried the reference drivers from Creative on a DOS bootup?
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I believe the reason it doesn't work is the lack of an amplifier on it and me using some "Sound Blaster SBS30" passive speakers. 🤣 I'll find some powered ones and try it again.
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Yes, that's logical. Passives will have output, but it will be extremely faint.
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Or you could try plugging headphones in just to test if that's the actual problem 😉
