I just installed vista onto my old dell dimension 8200. everything’s working great, but no sound. I have a turtle beach santa cruz pci card that is no longer supported. there’s a work around for it, but that involves duel loading vista and xp. screw that. i’d like to know what a good (and cheap) pci card that is compatable w\ my machine and w\ vista! thanks all!!
@sosguy - first of all, what makes you assume I only have 1gig RAM? I had 2 to start off w\ and I have upgraded along the way. Second, I "ruined" the computer by putting Vista on it b\c my company has been switching over and they have been giving out copies of ultimate for home use. The machine was badly in need of a reformat anyway, so I thought i'd give vista a go.
It runs fine on my machine, just no sound. Seems like the Visa\soundcard problem has been pervasive since the start…but there's your answer.
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1 sosguy // Sep 4, 2008
Why did you want to ruin a perfectly good computer by putting Vista on it? As long as you are ordering parts, more RAM will be needed to the 1 GB you have.
Check out the sound cards here:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=107
2 ? // Sep 4, 2008
Here’s a list of cards for you:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&N=2010360057%201102608534&PropertyCodeValue=1026%3A8534&srchInDesc=vista&bop=And&Order=RATING
3 Arielle // Sep 4, 2008
First off, don’t listen to anyone who says Vista will not run on your machine. It will.
Second off, anything Creative is pretty good, they have good drivers. Try the Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy SE 7.1 (link in sources).
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