First post, by wokihadi
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Here we go...
I has suffered a pain with this card...
long story short the 8 bit and 16 bit test with the diagnose has noise... and a lot, sometimes a channel like left with no sound and right all boosted up no matter with the speaker or line out.
So if you suffered that i bring a solution... at least on win 98 where i has tested with a pentium III 45o slot 1 a pcchips motherboard 128mb sdram and a xpert 128 pci graphics card. Of course included the AWE 64 value as mentioned before.
First things first I installed the AWE64 VALUE cd who is in the vogons website the win95 drivers...
and then instaled the win98 upgrade and also make the steps of the sb16 and ctcm at the root of win 98 in my case C:\ .
I has make a test on the DXDIAG on windows run at the sound option and tested all of them... most work with two exceptions...
the windows synthesizer and creative wave synth\WG.
So I tryed to disable the creative wave synth because I cannot remove the windows synthesizer at win 98...
issue stayed the same..
I has tryed to clean with alcohol and wash the card let ir dry all things the caps are ok no resistors with damage perfect PCB.
So TLDR.
All things done. and issue is there noise.
For the record. I has the sound blaster live in there in the same system and i swaped to the awe64 who i make the mentoned steps and worked like a charm, so there is my 100% sure indeed it works no problem, even before I clean all stuff mentioned but I tryed to use both cards and then you know my little friend system blows up, erros and more erros the "hell" I had to format and then we back to the prologue.
The freaking solution:
I has tryed to change the creative wave synth\WG. with the driver on the mentioned AWE64 VALUE cd named Creative 3D Stereo Enhcancement Technology.
and bang... restart the pc yes oh boy...
Here we go windows 98 with all glory boots up and the glorious sound of the card startup is perfect no noise no interference no clicking noise nothing all clean and beautiful sound. oh glory. tested with sim city 3000 and Quake 2 for now all perfect. man alive it has a pain but it worth.also 2 days of pure agony going on foruns and stuff.
So last TLDR.
Make all the steps install from the cd use the driver update from win 98 put the files needed in the SB16 and CTCM at the C:\ all the crap,
and then check if you got a year 1980 Creative Wavesynth\WG driver, change with the Creative 3D Stereo Enhcancement Technology manualy he is in the mentioned AWE64 VALUE cd in this vogons website in the drivers section. restart and glory. Try I realy hope it works for you too who have the same issue because I haven't found anywhere on internet about it. GOOD LUCK AND GOOD NIGHT! ps: I'm not from USA so sorry if I mistyped something.