First post, by maverick21
Last week I got myself a not-functioning Maestro 32/96, luckily I could send it back to the dealer. I bought an EWS64XL on ebay instead, which I got yesterday. At first it semmed alright, at least it installed in win98se. But I could'n get the applications to work. So I tried it in DOS 6.22 and could not get the ewsinit.exe to work correctly. I can change the configuration of the card, but cannot load any soundsets i.e. The program ends with "Bootstrap does not run correctly". I found something about this problem on the terratec homepage. Terratec says that it is likely to be a hardware defect. On another page I found something about the eeprom tool which might help in those cases (EWS64NEU.EXE). Tried it too, there was no error message while doing the rewriting of the eeprom, but after a reboot the error message with ewsinit.exe was still there.
Is there anything else I could try? This is really annoying.... I'd love to have a nice Terratec soundcard, but while my 4 creative cards work fine - despite being even older than those two terratec cards - I obviously got no luck with those 😒