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Diamond Monster Sound Mx300 and P4 setup

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First post, by buckeye

Posted on Yesterday, 17:29

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Just installed this sound card to this setup:

Pentium 2.4 ghz.
Intel D865GLC
512mb 400mhz
Quadro4 700 XGL

Works great in windows 98 but after installing the drivers off the diamond cd keep getting the message: error #6 while booting (something about the AU30DOS driver not loaded).

Under device manager it shows the monster II installed but that's it, no joystick, SB or MPU-401. Perhaps this is not the ideal setup for this card like a slot 1 or socket 370?

Getting late era DOS games working isn't a must but just curious as to why the error is occurring. Any ideas would be appreciated thanks!

Last edited by buckeye on 2025-08-28, 20:58. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 4, by PD2JK

Posted on Yesterday, 17:41

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You could try newer drivers for that voodoo, the one from the CD is probably too outdated.

hmm nice oxymoron?

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Reply 2 of 4, by Pickle

Posted on Yesterday, 17:54

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buckeye wrote on Yesterday, 17:29:

Works great in windows 98 but after installing the drivers off the diamond cd keep getting the message: error #6 while booting (something about the AU30DOS driver not loaded).

AU30DOS is a dos driver for the aureal vortex 2 (is one installed?), maybe you have a resource conflict between cards.

Reply 3 of 4, by bertrammatrix

Posted on Today, 00:53

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Try a different driver. Don't assume the one on the CD is the best just because it came with the card

Reply 4 of 4, by Falcosoft

Posted on Today, 01:12

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PD2JK wrote on Yesterday, 17:41:

You could try newer drivers for that voodoo, the one from the CD is probably too outdated.

Pickle wrote on Yesterday, 17:54:

AU30DOS is a dos driver for the aureal vortex 2 (is one installed?), maybe you have a resource conflict between cards

The Diamond Monster Sound Mx300 IS an aureal vortex 2 based sound card ( and not a voodoo graphics accelerator) 😀

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