First post, by Tenorman
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- Newbie
Hello All,
I am using an ESS AudioDrive 1868F sound card in my Presario 633 and am getting popping sounds in the music on some games. The weird thing is that I only hear it in certain tracks in certain games. It is really prevalent in Leisure Suit Larry 7 (see attachment), but I have also heard it in certain levels of Doom and Heretic.
The configuration of this system is described in more detail at Crawlspace Project: Compaq Presario 633, but the gist of it is:
Compaq Presario 633
28 MB RAM (was 12 MB, still did it when it had the lower amount of memory)
100 Mhz i486 Overdrive (was 33Mhz 486 SX, still did it with the slower CPU)
4 GB Compact Flash Card
Adaptec AVA-1505 ISA SCSI controller
2x External SCSI CD-ROM
IBM 07h0849 Sound Card - ESS AudioDrive 1868F Chipset - I imagine this was pulled out of an Aptiva or something years ago.
MS-DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.1
Relevant Lines in autoexec.bat
ESSCFG.EXE /A:220 /I:5 /D:1 /E:0 /B:330 /J:E !
ESSVOL.EXE /V:8 /L:8 /W:8 /M:0 /C:8 /S:8 /A:8
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
Things I have tried. None of it has had any effect.
-Mute all inputs that I am not using.
-Disabling EMS.
-Switching to IRQ 7.
-Disabling smartdrv.
I am thinking this is a problem with the card itself rather than a config issue, but I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed anything obvious before I buy a replacement.
Is this a common problem with the 1868F/1869 cards? I went with this because these are inexpensive, supposed to have good compatibility, and don't require a TSR to be loaded once the card is initialized.
[Compaq Presario 633 | DOS 6.22 / Win 3.1 | DX4 100 Overdrive | 28M RAM | SB16 CT2770A | SPEA Media FX (Soundscape S2000) ]
[GA-6BXC R2.0 | Win98SE | Via C3 Ezra 866 | 384M RAM | TNT2 32M | Voodoo2 8M | SB32 CT3670 | Ensoniq Soundscape Opus]