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ES1868 sound card suddenly stopped working

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First post, by popcalent

Posted on 2024-06-03, 23:43

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Hi, all.

I have a 386 DX-40 running MSDOS. I'm using an ES1868 sound card that was working great until it stopped working. This is the card:

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I turned on the computer today and ran a game that has music through the sound card, but the music was on the PC speaker instead. It didn't let me select adlib music, so I restarted the computer. Then it worked fine. But the next time I restarted the computer, I had the same problem. Then I realized this was showing up on boot up (ignore the mouse error, it's fine):

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I haven't changed anything on my autoexec.bat or config.sys:

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And the paths are correct:

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I made sure the sound card itself wasn't lose, but still it doesn't work. What could the problem be?

Reply 1 of 2, by quigonhu

Posted on 2024-06-04, 02:08

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If you're sure this sound card is still functional

1. Try to reset the BIOS
2. Try to use another ISA slot

If nothing changed, get a multimeter, try to measure the following voltages, +5V, -5V, +12V and -12V. Make sure these voltages are available.

Reply 2 of 2, by Grzyb

Posted on 2024-06-04, 02:36

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It looks like a hardware problem.
Try the card in another computer, and try another card in this computer...

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