Not one affordable PCI sound card for G4 & Tiger - NOT ONE!!!!

Hi All,
I cannot find any, not one, affordable PCI sound card in Australia that I can use in my G4 using Tiger Grrrrr
I bought a card ($40 Aust) that had an Mac logo on the packaging - of course there are no drivers for it! How rude!
It has the CMedia CMI8738 chipset. Sells in the U S of A for less than $10!
For some reason Apple never put a microphone input on these machine. Yes I know about iMic.
Even a 2.1 basic card with mic - no, no, no ....

Hmm what other options is there for the bios on PCI slots?Also anything you connect to the motherboard can have oxidization (I think its that) build up on the connection. Check the connector on the card and get a eraser (Pen eraser is better) and give it a good cleaning. The connector might have alot of build-up on it and you can see it by a dark yellowy colour. I cleaned my graphics card and ram connectors after they got alot of the build-up on them. On a older computer my graphics stopped working and this fixed it. Also I went away for a while (like a month) and came back to see that my puter didn't display anything. Opened it up and saw that the graphic card had alot of corrosion? on the card connector and in the slot. Does that if you computer is turned of for a long time. Had a heck of time trying to clean the slot out. One other thing that it could be is the sound card is faulty. I had an audigy 2 and it died a while back . It picks it up and then try and use it computer freezes and the after restart it's not there anymore. Hope it's not that problem. Hope this gives you something to go by.

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value 7.1 PCI Sound Card

Anyone use this Sound Card ---- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value 7.1 PCI Sound Card
How much better is it then AC 97
i can get it for £32.31
or i can get this one
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit 7.1 PCI Sound Card For £28.55
With out of the 2 is best......
How much sound inprovemt will i get from a AC97 to one of the above.
Thanks for help
Therock500

It really depends on what you're doing and your speaker configuration.
If it is cheap in comparison to other price checking, it may be worth it.
I have the exats same board and used the onboard sound for a few months until I got sick of it not doing what I was used to like the MCP-T southbridge of the NF1 & 1 (Soundstorm) I wasn't using digital out and I have the speakers in my signature. With my TV card, I was unable to get sound in all 4 speakers correctly and I was unable to control the bass. I had tried both the drivers from the CD and the latest Realtek drivers.
I just did not like it much at all so I had a SB live 5.1 card I had lying on a shelf. I downloaded the latest drivers with the same skepticism as TireSmoke has. My findings are that the drivers have greatly improved and you don't have to install the bloated utilities that are associated with Creative drivers. It worked the way I wanted it to for the most part without any issue.
What I found is the onboard sound seems a little deeper and warmer as opposed to the Creative solution but I was willing to give that up for the functionality. The Creative sounds a little stronger in the midrange and highs and the Bass was just slightly muted but still acceptable.
I then graduated to the Audigy 2 ZS in my signature and the sound is slightly better and I have to say that Creative is doing a better job with the drivers. I did install with all the options just to see what impact it all has. I have to say, my only complaint is the look and feel of the interfaces still look a little cheesy but I have the option to disable most of that or simply not install any of it except the drivers.

Dv6265us connexant PCI sound card + windows 7 = Not working

So I'm here becuase I can't find a driver on my own. I've scoured the internet for hours, finding very little to help with my issue. So here goes...
I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 (Dv6265us), and ever since I installed window 7, Windows cannot figure out what drivers to install for the PCI sound card. The best I've found so far says this:
"Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it"
"Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio"
"If you know the manufacturer of your device, you can visit its website and check the support section for driver software."
Now here's the funky part...everywhere I've found information on my laptop, it says I have a Conexant PCI sound card. If I'm wrong I would love for someone to tell me; better yet, a link to a download to actually be able to use the PCI sound card. Right now the card is under other devices and is listed as "PCI Device".
Now the Link I've provided from the conexant site will tell you this under PC Audio Support - Windows® 7,
"Conexant develops audio solutions that are used in a wide range of products including personal computers. We provide customized audio drivers to our customers, which include major computer manufacturers globally. At the request of these manufacturers, Conexant does not provide end-user support or drivers for PC audio products. If you have an issue with the audio configuration in Windows 7, please contact the manufacturer of your computer.
I tried calling HP support, but they wouldn't even answer my yes or no question... "Do you have audio drivers for my laptop that will allow me to hear sound?" Instead of saying yes or no, I was told that I needed to pay fifty to one-hundred dollars;....fifty dollars for a one time fee of telephone service, or one-hundred for the year. I even went as far as asking..."if you can't fix my problem, do I get a refund?" I was told no...so here I am. I've had problems before with hp...but this is rediculous, and whats worse is from the way things look, Connexant was told NOT to support their own product, or provide drivers for windows 7 by their customer(HP). I realize everyone is hurting for money, but **bleep**, this is a new low...

To answer your question, there are no windows 7 drivers for that model notebook. The notebook was designed for Windows 2000, Windows xp and windows vista.
This is one of the issues with upgrading the OS on a computer before checking the specs of the hardware.
I do understand the frustration but it would be more beneficial to revert back to the original OS that the notebook came with. That is what the HP support desk will have you do to prove functionality of the notebook should you have paid for the Diagnostic Support.
Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP. Clicking the "Kudos star" to the left is a great way to say thanks!
When your problem has been solved, accept the solution by clicking the "Accept as Solution" button to help other members in the future!

Sound Blaster Live 24-bit PCI Sound Card and Creative Sound Blaster PCI Card not detect

Ok here is my problem. I bought a Creative Sound Blaster PCI sound card a while back and it was working fine but recently when I would boot up my computer and try to play music say off of Winamp it says Bad DirectSound Driver. When I check device manager it shows no sound card there and in sounds and audio devices it says no audio device. Now my brother believed this to be a card fault so we went to Frys and bought a Sound Blaster Li've 24-bit PCI card. I uninstalled the old drivers and installed this new one but yet it's the same problem. My assumption was that Windows XP had something conflicting so I reinstalled the OS. It found the card and I installed the latest drivers?off of this site but now it does the same thing yet again with a fresh install of Windows XP. The card has been in all 3 of my PCI slots and it will detect it for a moment but then acts like as if the card was never installed. Like I never installed a sound card into the computer. The onboard audio has been disabled for a while now but I do not know what the problem could be. I did Scan for hardware changes but it doesn't show up. Sometimes when the card is detected if I do scan for hardware changes and the card is there it will just magically disappear from the device manager as if it was never there. Even when I try to load music and I see the card is detected it will not play the music and ends up locking up Winamp to the point that sometimes will go BSOD. Now I would really like to find out what the issue is because I am planning this weekend to swap out my motherboard with a duplicate board to see if that will end up fixing the problem but I want to find out if there is any other way to fix this issue. Thank you.Message Edited by AuXoIs on 02-25-200808:28 PM

Hmm what other options is there for the bios on PCI slots?Also anything you connect to the motherboard can have oxidization (I think its that) build up on the connection. Check the connector on the card and get a eraser (Pen eraser is better) and give it a good cleaning. The connector might have alot of build-up on it and you can see it by a dark yellowy colour. I cleaned my graphics card and ram connectors after they got alot of the build-up on them. On a older computer my graphics stopped working and this fixed it. Also I went away for a while (like a month) and came back to see that my puter didn't display anything. Opened it up and saw that the graphic card had alot of corrosion? on the card connector and in the slot. Does that if you computer is turned of for a long time. Had a heck of time trying to clean the slot out. One other thing that it could be is the sound card is faulty. I had an audigy 2 and it died a while back . It picks it up and then try and use it computer freezes and the after restart it's not there anymore. Hope it's not that problem. Hope this gives you something to go by.

Can someone recommend me a good creative sound card for listening to music

Hi all,
I am thinking to buy a Creative sound card for my new PC.
I have browsed the Creative web site but found out that there are just too many options for me to choose from, like X-FI, e-MuRecon3D Fatal1ty Champion, Recon3D PCIe, E-MU 1212M PCIe.
I have no idea which one is the best for me since I like listening to music.
Please give me some advice.
Thanks
Kitty.

It's ultimately going to depend on how particular you are, and what output you're going to be using.
Arguably the X-Fi Titanium HD will give the clearest output of the whole lot. A measurable 122dB SNR means you'll basically have to turn it up to the threshold of pain before you'll hear any noise produced by the card itself. That doesn't mean there won't be any noise at all in the output - just that the card realistically won't add any that didn't already exist in the source material. Further to this, when run in Entertainment mode you'll also have access to the THX enhancements over the standard Creative ones, which I personally find to be substantially better in actual listening. The EMI shield and changeable op-amps are just gravy.
Of course, there's always fine print. The 122dB SNR only applies to the front outputs, for example. That's not to say the rest aren't very good - they're rated at between 115dB and 118dB - just that they aren't as good. Odds are you won't really care but its still worth mentioning. The other major limitation (in my opinion) is the absence of a good headphone pre-amplifier, but that may or may not be a non-issue depending on whether you use headphones or already have an external one (or, like me, you feel inclined to make your own to solve that limitation).
The other good option would be the Recon3D. I wouldn't bother going with any of the upper market ones for music (or for any reason, for that matter) unless the front drive bay or directional microphone are of any particular importance to you (NB I bought the Fatal1ty Champion edition - still not entirely sure why). An argument could be made for the EMI shield, but with so few components on the board it probably isn't stopping a whole heap of noise anyway over the miniature "shield" on the SPU itself. When compared in raw specs to the Titanium HD, at a glance it would appear to be vastly inferior - 102dB SNR ratio (albeit constant across all outputs) is quite a bit lower, after all.
However, it's important to keep in mind exactly what that means. 102dB SNR still means you'll have to turn the volume up quite a bit to get any extra noise added to your output. You're talking around the volume of a power saw at a little over 3 feet, so realistically it's quite loud - and it's over the level which is generally considered to cause hearing loss with sustained exposure (95dB). You also have to remember that this doesn't apply to the S/PDIF outputs (nor does the HD's 122dB) since they're entirely at the mercy of whatever decoder you're using, so if you're using that output than the extra expense of the HD is pretty much entirely wasted. And, as a major plus, all Recon3D cards have what seems to be a pretty decent headphone pre-amp, which makes a very appreciable difference in listening, as well as supporting the various THX enhancements.
The short version:
- If you're listening mostly via stereo analogue speakers, get the Titanium HD.
- If you're listening mostly via headphones, get the Recon3D (I personally think the pre-amp is better than the higher SNR).
- If you're listening mostly via S/PDIF to an external amp, it doesn't matter (but get the Recon3D because it's cheaper).

Need a new sound card for (( PC Works LX520

Hey mates ,
I need a new powerful sound card for PC Works LX520 Speakers
I need the best compatible sound card for this speakers .
I'm using the speakers for Trance , hard rock , games
Please pick me a special sound card , But not expensi've .
regards ,
I-IEMA

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Sound Card and Wifi device Not working - Compaq Presario CQ60 -109EM AMD Sempron

I need a driver for my new note book Compaq Presario CQ60 109EM for Windows XP sp2 operating system.
It was on Vista Home Basic. I hated it because it made the computer ran very slow, i downgraded to XP Sp2
by myself, but now i am getting issues with all drivers. Everything is not working, the worse one is the sound
card and wifi device are not working event not detected by xp. Please help me.

grr i have the same problem, my laptop is the same model as urs. Go to Nvidia.com for the graphics card driver, the graphics card for our laptops is the nvidia geforce 8200 m card, just search it into the download section (it will ask you to). I cant get the internet working but im usin a usb modem. The webcam can be activated by going to the start menu and right clicking my computer and going to the manage option from here go to the device manager.
Go to the yellow section and it will say other devices it will say hp webcam now download a youcam driver or whatever and right click on the hp webcam
and select update driver click on this time only and select download from a spesific location and select the webcam driver it will hopefully work and be removed from the yellow section. now using a webcam veiwer you can use it. Thats all i know so far but i really would like to get my sound working mainly because on xp on this laptop it is pretty powerful for games as i can run crysis at medium settings at an exeptional level but obviously, NO SOUND GRR.....

Recommended sound card for Oracle Redhat Linux 64 bit?

Dear Experts,
I'm trying to install the latest Oracle Redhat 5.
64 bit. On a certified Asus motherboard.
It will be a dual boot windows/Linux machine.
And I'm having an awful time with the sound card for my new server.
(It will be used for learning, at home. It's important to
have sound for some instructional videos that I will also watch.)
Other installs, sound has installed and worked fine.
I believe it's partially because the sound came directly off
the motherboard in those cases.
But with this new server, it came with a sound card, no onboard.
The sound card works with windows. But not with Linux.
I've been swapping three sound cards in and out, trying to get
one to work. Each has some partial success, but none meet all
of the requirements (below).
What is really frustrating is that I want the sound to go
to the green headphone jack on the front of the computer case.
To do this, there is a cable that connects the sound card, to
the front of the chassis.
The existing sound card that I have, has a connector for this.
It is an "HD audio", or an AC 97 connector. There two rows of
five pins, with one pin blocked up, so that the connector is
inserted in the correct manner. The cord is hard wired to the case.
You can see some images of the pins and the cords here:
http://support.creative.com/kb/showarticle.aspx?sid=14133
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94769
http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/Intel2/4001152/4001152mvr20.shtml
http://www.e4allupgraders.info/dir1/ecase/support/front_panel_support.shtml
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27289176
You would figure that whether the connector existed or not would be a standard
feature that would be listed for sound cards. But it's rare to find it listed anywhere.
When I went to the computer store, I had to open all the boxes to see if it
was there or not!!!! Manufacturers, this is not that difficult!!
At this point, after a couple of days of struggle, I just want to buy a
simple sound card that works right out of the box.
Here are the requirements:
- gets instantly recognized by Linux (Oracle Redhat 5) 64 bit, and plays sound
with the standard Linux drivers. I believe I have all of the drivers installed,
because a few cards do play with them automatically. During installation, I
installed Every package available.
- no installation of special Linux drivers required.
- the other big requirment is that the card have output to an HD Audio,
or AC 97 connector, and will play music through the headphone jack.
(Believe it or not, I have one card that works fine out the back,
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- will also work with Windows 64 bit.
Does anyone have any good sound card recommendations that will meet all these requirements?
Thanks a lot!

Almost a year later... what have you been listening too? :-)
I have to admit that I'm not an expert for "sound" under Linux. I think you may find http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page interesting. It also shows which sound cards are compatible.
ALSA is pretty much standard under Linux and stands for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Together with pulse-audio it provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system and is, by default, also included in RHEL and other descendants. You can install pulseaudio support using the EPEL repository following the instructions at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
wget rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
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Loaded plugins: downloadonly, rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with ULN.
ULN support will be disabled.
Installed Packages
alsa-lib.i386                            1.0.17-1.el5           installed
alsa-lib.x86_64                          1.0.17-1.el5           installed
alsa-utils.x86_64                        1.0.17-1.el5           installed
Available Packages
alsa-lib-devel.i386                      1.0.17-1.el5           ol5_u7_base
alsa-lib-devel.x86_64                    1.0.17-1.el5           ol5_u7_base
alsamixergui.x86_64                      0.9.0-0.3.rc1.el5      epel
pulseaudio.x86_64                        0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-core-libs.i386                0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-core-libs.x86_64              0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-esound-compat.x86_64          0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-libs.i386                     0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
pulseaudio-libs.x86_64                   0.9.10-1.el5.3         epel
etc.Edited by: Dude on Dec 8, 2011 7:02 PM

MP 1,1 won't recognize a pcie sound card.

I have a MP 1,1 and am trying to add a SoundBlaster Recon 3D sound card. The card isn't recognized by the MP. When I do a system info check, PCIe checks show an error. How can I test the slots (video card is working with no issues)?

okay, check the the Apple icon, on the top left hand side, About this mac, more info
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Nice try though-apparently, the only Mac stuff Creative supports now is the Recon 3d
external box that connects via USB. no PCI-E Sound Blaster cards are supported at all
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I was wondering that myself. The only thing I think you could possibly do is have both the onboard and the pci sound card enabled and use the onboard sound just for the headphones. I have no tried this yet as I do have the cables connected to the mobo but I have the onboard sound disabled.

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Youll like this one for sure:
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 External USB Sound Card
Model: SB1090 | SKU: 8953705
Its on the Best Buy website for $59.99
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can anyone point me in the direction of a cheap sound card for my quicksilver?
i want to fit it with an optical output to connect it to a surround system just like newer powermac models. i will not be needing a bunch of analog outputs or any inputs. i want to make this as cheap as possible.
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Dear Hans-Marius ?verland,
...can anyone point me in the direction of a cheap sound card for my quicksilver?...
Well, I don't know how much cheap you want this sound card you're after, but I reccon that the M-Audio Revolution 5.1 PCI card would certainly return you the best bang for your buks.
It's Mac OSX savvy and plays DOLBY 5.1 surround GREAT!
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I was wondering what's a top/high end Sound card for my vista 64 ultimate?
I need it for gaming, also for music/video/entertainment.
Thank You

I'm also in the market for a sound card to use in a computer with 64 bit Vista. Specs for computer are as follows:
Vista Ultimate 64
BadAxe 2 mobo (Intel D975XBX2)
QX6700 CPU
4GB Ballistix PC-2 8500 (4 x GB)
XFX 8800GTX
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Will the X-Fi Platinum Fatalty Champion Series work CORRECTLY in the above computer?
I've read nothing but negati've remarks about the X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatalty Professional Series when used with Vista 64 so I won't buy that one. (I have used that card in a computer with 32 bit Vista Ultimate and it worked OK. Not trouble free by any means but I did manage to get it working.)
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Sound Card for Disk Jock

On my PC i had a creative sound blaster audigy. it had 4 great traits:
1. inexpensive ~$200
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What is a good sound card for my imac? i would like it to have the above traits.
any help is appreciated

When I was shopping about 6 months ago, here was my short list.
They're all nice boxes, so I won't try to sway your opinion by telling
you which one I bought. Anyhow, I use it for recording, not D-J.
There are also some nice firewire boxes out there, but I limited my
search to USB. I didn't want the audio interface and external HDD
interfering with one another while recording. Also, I occasionally
need to use it with a (USB-only) Windoze machine.
I believe the E-Mu unit has the best tech specs, i.e., best S/N ratio.
BTW, E-Mu is Creative's professional product line.
M-Audio has some nice features (audio inserts, if you need 'em).
OTOH, it's USB 1.1, so the number of simultaneous I/O channels
is rather limited when using 24-bit audio at high sampling rates.
Edirol (Roland) is probably the most rugged/bulletproof (but it's
probably a little above your $200 target). Check Amazon.com.
[E-Mu (Creative) 0404 USB|http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=610&subcategory=611&produc t=15185]
[M-Audio FastTrack Pro|http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackPro-main.html]
[Edirol (Roland) UA-25|http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=704&ParentI d=114]
None of them have RCA connectors for all inputs/outputs -- but that's easy to
fix with a few RCA-to-1/4" (mono) phone plug adapters from RadioShack.
...rock on!
Looby

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PM made sense - 6 yrs ago when disk drives were much slower. Today it is a bottleneck.
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