Epox EP-8RDA Pro sound problems

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I am ahving a beyond ridiculous sound problem on my motherboard with ALL Wing Commander games whther trying to run them in DosBox or in WindowsMe. The games will either not detect the onboard sound or my SBPCI128. I have tried updating the BIOS from Epox;which didn't help. I've disabled the ahrdware monitoring,still nothing. I have diabled the onboard sound and am trying the SBPCI and it still can't find a card. When it does see a card in iether mode it says" Device is being used by another application" which to my knowledge there isn't anything that should be using the sound at all. This is my system configuration:

Epox EP-8RDA Pro Socket A mobo(not a specific model number given i.e. 3 or 6)
512mb OCZ DDR 400
1 maxtor SATA 100GB drive
1 Seagate 17GB ATA drive(Windows can only see some parts of both drives one drive at a time in win me so i sue 200 for normal use)
Lite On 16x DVD drive
Lite On 16x DL DVD Burner.
Rosewill 256 NVidia GeeForce 5200 AGP 8x card.

Any other games seem to work fine under Me or 2000,just the Wing Commander games will not see audio. Video is fine.

Even using the legaxy settings on the SBPCI the card isn't seen and the install will freeze or give the in use message.

 

[ChrisReid]

The onboard soundcard will surely not work with the Windows games played directly in Me. Any way you do it, that's not an ideal combination of stuff there. It sounds like you're having trouble getting either sound card to detect in Windows. If you're getting errors about the devices being in use and such, I'm surprised other games are working. DOSBox pretty seamlessly takes your Windows detected sound card and turns it into a soundblaster, but you need to make sure your card is seen properly in Windows first. What does it show in the device manager?

 

[Unregistered]

What my device manager shows in Windows me and 2000

The onboard soundcard will surely not work with the Windows games played directly in Me. Any way you do it, that's not an ideal combination of stuff there. It sounds like you're having trouble getting either sound card to detect in Windows. If you're getting errors about the devices being in use and such, I'm surprised other games are working. DOSBox pretty seamlessly takes your Windows detected sound card and turns it into a soundblaster, but you need to make sure your card is seen properly in Windows first. What does it show in the device manager?

Ok in both Winfows the sound card is ok. No red marks or yellow exclamation marks. So it works outside of the Wing Commander games. i have demos of Unreal,Doom3,Quake and so on and they have no problems with the cards either of them. The problem only comes in on Wing Commander. That's all versions other than 1 and 2. i can't figure out what so different about these boards as in motherboards and stuff. I use to have Soyo Dragons and the gamess worked fine on those boards. Now I know this is a NForce2 chipset and not VIA as on my old boards. I keep thinking it's a hardware issue as far as the motherboard goes personally,since everything seems ok otherwise and it jsut seems to affect these games only so far.

 

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A P.S. to Chris Reid on the sound

I almost forgot and i don't know how i could've,but my audio sucks on Win2000 when playing cd's. On the onboard as well as the SBPCI it's choppy and has static on all cds whther i'm using iTunes or Windows media Palyer. I haven't found a way around that problem either. In Windows Me though in media Palyer cd's sound fine. So there's soemthing not jiving with 2000 and my audio drivers period or the motherboard and the sound. I might go back to a Pentium 3 since I don't think anyone is going to be able to figure this thing out. No offense or anything,but i think Epox or Nvidia made a abd board and or chipset combo on this one. As stated before i ahve never had any problems liek this on past AMD Athlon systems with onboard audio or with my SoundBlaster.