Hi! A while back I bought a CT3670 off of the auction site for a pretty low price. I thought it might be useful in reviving my AWE32 that I bought new and is losing its left channel and/or be a replacement in a retrobuild so I could just retire my sentimentally-valued AWE32. Anyway, it didn't work, like, at all. I honestly can't remember if Diagnose didn't even see it, but it certainly didn't work. I found the instructions to flash the BIOS but for some reason, I don't think I ever tried it.

Anyway, on to my latest build, and I thought I'd try it again. Of course it didn't work, but Unisound saw the card, could set parameters which I could read back, but the card didn't work. I tried starting Hexen, and the system just locked on the DOS4G screen, I'm guessing as it tries to initialize the sound card. I tried a couple of other games, and they just didn't have sound.

I then used the flash utility, and unisound now sees it as an AWE64, but it doesn't work (same symptoms).

I think this card might be dead, but it's strange that it's visible to the system. I'm just trying to decide the next steps to take. I don't see any damage to the card, but I'm thinking about trying to reflow the chips with my hot air station. Thoughts? recommendations? Anyone recognize this? Should I just donate it to someone who is working on some awesome soundcard project and in need of chips? 😀

Thanks!