HELP with.... mWAVE sound/modem card

[Mike-Mono]

I have one of these and would like to get it running on a non genuine IBM Win95-98 system.

The model no. from the FCC sticxker on the card is
Model MD-2780/1
FCC NO. DK4TAI-22573-MM-E
The 2 largest chips are both marked 'mWAVE' and the smaller of the 2 has the word'SPECTRUM" as well.

All help appreciated..

[SysOpt]

Ok, but what seems to be the problem? More details please. You need drivers?

[Axel]

The Mwave is a modem/sound card combo that gave people fits when it first came out as it would either conflict with an installed modem or an installed sound card. I can't quite remember who made the thing, but you can look that up on the FCC licensing site.
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/

That page indicates your card was designed & possibly manufactured by GVC in Taiwan - here's their web page.
http://www.GVC.com/eng/

If you have either a sound card or seperate modem installed, look for conflicts in device manager.

Also, you will most likely experience an IRQ conflict possibly on the MWAVE between the sound and modem component.

Another thing to do is to reboot into safe mode ( <F8> the second you see "starting Windows95" on the boot screen, choose safe mode option ) and go into device manager and remove the foot print of any modem and or sound cards you've removed from your system through device manager. Those old settings may be what's causing your problem even if you don't see them showing up in your system in regular mode.

Another thing I've seen foul an installation is a fragmented hard drive. While you are in safe mode, complete a Scandisk ( start-programs-accessories-system tools- ) and then do a defrag (same path). Then - reinstall the MWave drivers from disk.

If that still doesn't help, go back into safe mode - remove the MWAVE stuff in device manager completely - then reboot. - Allow the system to autodetect the device. (it will probably find 2 - the modem component and the sound device) - and install the drivers from disk.

This all assumes, of course, that you might have the driver disks handy. Look through the web pages identified up top to find what you're loking for. - I didn't take the time to go through all 213 FCC listings to find the exact model number you quoted - have fun.

[This message has been edited by Axel (edited 12-07-1999).]