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ESS Audiodrive works in DOS, Win 3.11 drivers won't load?

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First post, by kingcake

Posted on 2024-03-09, 09:33

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ESS1868 ISA Card in a 386sx machine. Works great in DOS.

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Got the 1868 drivers directly from: https://www.zx.net.nz/mirror/www.esstech.com/ … pp/drivers.html

When I try to install them in Win 3.11 it says it can't find the card

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Tried launching w/o networking with "win /n" -- no difference

I'm pretty confused. Never actually tried to use one of these in Windows before.

Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

Posted on 2024-03-09, 16:34

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Hmm, did you try the one from Phil's ? a few files are newer (esssetup.exe) by a few months and slightly larger....

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Reply 2 of 2, by kingcake

Posted on 2024-03-10, 00:22

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Horun wrote on 2024-03-09, 16:34:

Hmm, did you try the one from Phil's ? a few files are newer (esssetup.exe) by a few months and slightly larger....

Just tried. Same message.

Also added a BLASTER variable to my autoexec to see if it was looking for that. No difference.

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