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First post, by jp3149

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I have a windows 98se machine with a soundblaster awe64 ct4380 working well. I wanted to upgrade to a awe 64 gold with more memory for sound fonts. When I got the gold card and installed it in my windows 98se machine it would not recognize the card so I ran diagnose program. I get an error message that says it cannot find a I/O address for card. What could be issue. I did remove the old ct 4380 card first. Thanks for any help

Reply 1 of 4, by Horun

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Try cleaning the edge contacts with Iso alcohol on a paper towel, put it in same ISA slot as the ct4380 was. If still not working then post a good picture as something is borked...

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 2 of 4, by SScorpio

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You might want to try doing a clean boot directly into MSDOS mode, then check to see if Unisound can see and initialize the card. That will verify the card is working and there aren't other issues first.

If that checks out, boot into safe mode and uninstall the drives you installed for the original card. Then boot into normal mode and reinstall the drivers for the gold.

Reply 4 of 4, by jp3149

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What is best sounding Sound card with midi add on card for midi music? I know there are many but I am tired of buying different ones and told there is something better. I have tried sound blaster Gold. (of course there is no midi adapter on Gold card.) But I have tried and still own Dream blaster s1,s2,x1,x2. I know there are later
issue of new Serdaco cards but are they better than what I already have and worth the money. Are these old issue cards worth hanging on too or should I try and sell them. Also I know there were wave blaster boards are they any better than the serdaco cards. Oh, I have many different soundblaster 16 and 32 cards with midi inputs. Thanks in advance for any input.