scchicago 0 Posted February 9, 2004 I am pretty sure this laptop I have has an ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive, however I have been unable to find a driver for it under NT 4. Its an old Compaq Presario 1621. It works perfectly on NT4 except for the sound problem. Has anybody gotten this to work? If so, could you please tell me? I would really like to know! Thanks! Share this post Link to post
jmmijo 1 Posted February 10, 2004 Sorry it doesn't look like Compaq/HP has any support for NT4 However I did find some OEM generic drivers located at ESS Technologies Please look at NOTE 3 as they say it may not work due to the fact that NT4 is not PnP compatible Share this post Link to post
scchicago 0 Posted February 10, 2004 IF NT 4 isnt PnP compatible, how come I have a PnP service installed? well anyway I tried those generic drivers that you linked to before, they don't work. When I go to install them I put in all the addressing information and all I get is a beep from the PC speaker. I have not found a driver that has worked and I thought I would ask here before giving up and going back to Windows 95 or 98. Well I still have NT4 on everything else heh. Share this post Link to post
scchicago 0 Posted February 10, 2004 Okay, here is an update to this story. I have fixed the problem. As you know NT isn't too good at detecting problems. There was an IRQ conflict with my wireless LAN card. I found this out when I tried another driver that wasnt specifically for my card and it was complaining about all these IRQs and things being taken already where the soundcard should be. After checking a bunch of devices I found that my NIC card was using them. Upon disabling my NIC and rebooting with the sound driver, I got full sound. So now after a little bit of readressing everything appears to be running great. Anyway, thanks to you who actually tried to help! Share this post Link to post
