[WriteLog] Soundcard worse after upgrade to XP

Tue Nov 2 10:48:07 EST 2004

I just wanted to follow up with the progress (and solution) of
my soundcard problems. I just want to be clear that I never
thought it was a Writelog problem, but rather a Win XP and/or
driver issue. Turns out, that was completely correct. Long
story short, it was the driver, but getting the correct driver
was extremely difficult. I tried downloading several drivers
for my PCI 128 card from Creative labs, all that I tried had
the same problems.
The fix was that K4JA sent me a spare card of his. He thought
it was a Soundblaster 16 PCI, but turns out it's the exact same
card as I'm using, a PCI 128, model CT4750. (And it should be
the same, as I recommended this model to him years ago.) So,
I took out my soundcard and installed his. Even though they
were the exact same model, WinXP installed new drivers. After
that, it works perfectly, scoring a perfect 7f and everything
working like before. Just to prove that my old soundcard wasn't
partially blown up, I installed my old card again, but WinXP
wanted to use the just drivers that were installed with it before.
It took a lot of coaxing, but I convinced WinXP to use the driver
that it installed when I installed the new card. Whammo. The
old card works with the "correct" drivers.
Chad WE9V
http://www.we9v.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Pixton [mailto:jpixton at shentel.net] 
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:36 AM
> To: Kurszewski Chad-WCK005; writelog at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Soundcard worse after upgrade to XP
>>> Chad,
>> This may not be of much help but -
>> I remember that I took out my Sound Blaster PCI 128 because 
> it had an issue 
> with common controls between the record and playback side so 
> that Writelog 
> could not independantly control the card's internal mixer 
> (mic and aux) 
> properly. I replaced it with a second 16 PCI which works fine 
> under Win XP 
> and SP2.
>> I see I summarized the problem back in Feb 2001 as -
>> "The PCI128 really is less sensitive than the PCI16. I could 
> not record my
> voice wave files with adequate volume and due to having only 
> one mixer,
> everything you do on the input side effects the output also."
>> Jerry, W6IHG
>>>> At 09:50 AM 10/29/2004 -0500, Kurszewski Chad-WCK005 wrote:
> >I've been using Writelog and a Soundblaster PCI128 card 
> since 1999 with
> >wonderful results. I've recommended this card to many 
> others, and it's
> >scored a perfect 7f on the sndbrdchk program. I've used it for SO2R
> >ever since. Over the summer, I upgraded my PC from Win2000 to
> >Win XP, then SP2. Now my soundcard only scores a 7b, and 
> the WlogSbControl
> >program now has the "Msg play level" checkbox greyed out and I can't
> >adjust the level slider. For the heck of it, I've tried 
> 10.49, 10.50,
> >and way back to 10.46 which was what I used last spring (no contests
> >since, and that was the last best working version for me).
> >
> >I've gone to the Creative Labs website, and tried every driver I
> >could get my hands on, including older ones for Win2000. Same poor
> >results.
> >
> >Did anyone see similar issues with their soundcards when 
> upgrading to XP?
> >What did you do?
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chad WE9V
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> Dr. Jerry R. Pixton, PIXOS Designs LLC
> http://www.pixos.com/designs/RadioTuner/
> jpixton at shentel.net
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