feipoa wrote:I have been using an AWE64 Gold in my 486-based NT4 setup for more than 15 years. It has always been stable with this sound card. I am attaching the driver package I am using. I'm not sure which revision they are, but read the readme first. You need to install the Plug-n-Play for Creative, which comes in this package.
I tried these ones next. Same thing. wave driver loaded but MIDI would not work. Rolling back on the previous MIDI driver worked but after an hour of it playing 3D Pinball demo it bluescreened again.
jesolo wrote:I can also have a look at what NT4.0 drivers came with my AWE64.
However, the revision 10 drivers that shamino attached are also […]
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I can also have a look at what NT4.0 drivers came with my AWE64.
However, the revision 10 drivers that shamino attached are also the drivers that are on Creative's website - since I downloaded them for comparison, I've attached them again.
Perhaps try a clean installation of the drivers and remove any old drivers first (refer the "readme.txt" file).
EDIT: Appears that F2bnp and myself responded at the same time. Both of the files that we uploaded are from Creative's website.
I'm testing these ones right now. Give me a few more hours to see if this crashes as well.
That I can recall when I built the machine I defaulted all the jumpers on the card and there shouldn't be anything it could conflict with. Windows also has its parameters at default as well.
EDITED: Still no good. All the drivers just bluescreen with the 0x1E KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED error.
Alright, plan B. I'll drop in my last spare AWE64 Gold (CT4390) and see what happens.
EDITED: With a PnP card dropped in NT immediately let me weed out that when I set the machine up I put the modem on IRQ 5 and the AWE64 at least was having none of it. It's again running 3D Pinball in the hopes it does not crash. IF it works I might try falling back to the AWE32 with the newly freed IRQ and seeing what it does. I redid a visual inspection of the card and found no damage.
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Screw it. The AWE64 seems to be overall a better sound card so I'll leave the AWE32 for a non-NT machine.
"It's science. I ain't gotta explain sh*t" 