OPTI-931 ISA soundcard won't work!

[nvmisfit]

Hey thanks for checking this out!
Here's the scoop, I'm borrowing my friend's computer.
He doesn't know the brand of the soundcard installed because it was put in by another friend of his. There's no possibility of finding this guy, so I examine the card and find out it uses the OPTi-931 chip. I tried going to windrivers.com to identify it but turns out I can't. So I D-load the generic Win95 drivers for it.(I use Win98 original version) The drivers are supposed to work right? Wrong. So I uninstall and reinstall. Same thing, it just doesn't want to work! I had previously installed Linux on the computer before I got Windows and the card worked fine so it can't be defective. After countless hours scouring the web for some info I'm guessing it has something to do with my BIOS settings, specifically for the ISA bus. I'm not sure what to do about it though. I use an Award BIOS (6/21/96-i430Vx-2A59Ht5BC-00) to be specific, yes I know it's an illegal version but it works fine. I'm considering taking the computer apart and reinstalling everything, then after the necessary installs putting the soundcard in first for the cards.(I had to change the resource settings for the card when I installed it because of a resource conflict with the motob) Of course I'd like to avoid all the headache and cursing and ask anyone out there if there's a better solution. Eventually I'm going to get a brand new card but I don't have much money at the moment and I won't settle for anything less than top quality(when it comes to music cause obviously this computer is crappola and I don't want to be a hippocryte!

So Can You Help Me?

 

[Jon X]

Does the card have jumpers on it? If you changed the resource settings in Windows, but it has hardware jumpers for those settings on the card, then it won't work obviously. I had an old ISA sound card like that once with jumpers. Only hard part then would be figuring out where to move the jumper to change to the setting you want. Especially if it's not labled plainly.

 

[nvmisfit]

{Re: OPTi-931 Soundcard..}Nevermind!

Thanks for the info but I already reinstalled everything(three times no less!)The first two times I reinstalled everything it was the same problem I had before, all the drivers seemed to be installed and the card was reported by windows as being okay, yet I couldn't hear anything out of it! I decided to take it out of the slot it was in and put it in another available ISA slot, then I tweaked some PCI Plug-N-Play options in the BIOS(I'm still not sure which of either solved the problem) Then I reinstalled Windows again and I put in all the drivers as usual. There was a resource problem having to do with a certain memory address the card was trying to use that was unavailable that came up again (this was the first thing I thought was the original problem for the card not working but even when fixing that before it did nothing), so I changed that again for the third time and as soon as I did that, I could hear sounds coming out of the card! Pretty crappy sounds I might add but hey, better than nothing. Good thing too cause I just got a letter in the mail confirming that I won Acid by Sonic Foundry from a contest I entered not too long ago! It's the first time I've won anything so I'm pretty happy!

Anyway thanks for the feedback to the one person that answered this. I guess everybody else was like "Jeez what a moron, he still uses ISA?!"