Hi Pete, Thanks for the advice. I forgot to write the Del is a desktop tower. So that should work fine. Do you have to make any changes to the JfW default scripts to direct jaws to a particular soundcard? Or would it be wiser to disable the on-board sound? Cheers, Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete H" <noizypete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:54 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Jaws and soundcards > Andrew, > > I'm not sure if your machine is a laptop or desktop, but if it is a > desktop > then you can fit a conventional card in, and any of the Creative Labs > range > should work well with JFW, I have the Audigy 4. > > Regards, > > Pete H. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew McCallie" <andrewmccallie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:02 PM > Subject: [jaws-uk] Jaws and soundcards > > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I'm looking for a new soundcard to replace the sigmatel on-board sound >> chip >> set that came with my Del machine. I'm not pleased with the performance >> of >> this >> on-board device as it would appear to make the machine crash regularly. I >> get a frozen system with an error message with lots of gibberish in it >> with >> the only legible text saying that the sigmatel audio stack had something >> to >> do with the crash. Having searched around for an updated driver both on >> Del's site and on the web, I haven't come up with a sollution except to >> install a new soundcard. >> >> I'm running XPSP2 Home with IE 7 on a Del dual core Pentiam CPU 3.4Ghz >> with 1Gb of RAM. Video card is a Radion X600 dual core with 256 Mb of >> RAM. >> JfW >> 8.0.2107 and eloquence synth. >> >> Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Andy >> >> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >> ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >> ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> ** and in the Subject line type >> ** unsubscribe >> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >> ** immediately-following link:- >> ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >> ** or send a message, to >> ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >> > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq