[jaws-uk] Re: Jaws and soundcards

  • From: "Andrew McCallie" <andrewmccallie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 10:40:21 +0100

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
>>
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