[WriteLog] Soundcard worse after upgrade to XP

[Jerry Pixton]

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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