HELP, My mx400 is a ess maestro????

[TWC]

I installed a new MB friday. All is well except it detects my monster mx400 as a ess maestro2 pci and installs a generic windows driver and I cannot get it to load the drivers from the cd and i dont beleive I have any audio acceleration from my card. When i point to the install disc it reads it and then pulls the driver from windows driver folder. Any ideas?

Thank you very little!

 

[AEboy128]

when you install the driver select display a list and then use have disk. That way should work.

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[killall]

if its already installed go to its properties... update drivers... and select the source as your drivers on the cd... simple

if in doubt blame microsoft...

 

[TWC]

ya guys ive attempted this but it tells me the hardware for this driver is not detected so i forced it to install the mx400 drivers and all hell broke loose, so i uninstalled them and now im back to the ess maestro, also my new board has onboard ac97 but theres no trace of it when i enable it, it seems the only audio driver windows is interested in is this one.

Thank you very little!

 

[arsend]

Take the card out and put it back in to PCI slot 3. Then, when Windows goes to auto detect it, push cancle, then load the drivers from your CD ROM. If you continue to have problems, update the drivers for your MB and the sound card.

If it works for you then don't fix it.

 

[TWC]

ill give it a go and post back.

Thank you very little!

 

[TWC]

Anytime I try to install the boards drivers I get a window that says "selected hardware not detected in the system make sure you use the correct installation."

Thank you very little!

 

[Guest]

What's your O.S.? I own a Terratec DMX. You'll probably don't know that brand, but it uses the same ESS Canyon 3D soundchip. I use Win 2k and it also recognises my card as a ESS Maestro. I've searched for updated divers for my card but Terratec nor ESS have drivers for Win 2k. Yes, I also looked at the site of Diamond (because I found it uses the same stupid soundchip) and for the MX400 ther were also no 2k drivers available. By the way, my card works very good under Win98SE (all features available: 3D, digital in-out,...). Don't know if you're using Win2k but it looks like. In that case I have no solution for your problem (stick to your 'good old' Win98? 😉.

 

[Jake75]

why slot 3? is it some "standard" for soundcards?


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[Crashman]

I think the Diamond MX400 is an ESS Maestro2, as in I think it uses that soundchip. Diamond should have provided an instalation progrma that would overwrite the generic driver. The biggest problem is that Diamond no longer supports hardware.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?