[rescue] The fat lady. . .

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:26:07PM -0500, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> I think mine is the Pioneer one... Creative branded, however.  I haven't
> cleared off the dust to check the rev or the chipset.  I always loved the
> full-duplex when everyone else had crap for a sound card and could only do
> half.

It is more like 3/4 duplex.  Sure, it can record and playback at the same
time, but either the recording or the playback must be 8bit, since it can't
do 16bit in both directions at once. 
 
> The worst sound card I ever came across was the Aztech Sound Galaxy
> Washington (semi-work-alike) in my ex-wife's Packard Bell Force 100 in
> college.  That was the sh*ttiest system I've ever seen... even the
> brochure said "Made from Quality new and used parts."  Their tech support
> was long distance, made you wait 2 hours, and had nothing useful to say.
> Her sound card only would work if you used the factory install disk to
> restore a factory windows install... Not from a bare formatted drive using
> real windows and the drivers for her card.  Turns out that they did some
> weird hackish patches to the drivers to get the card to wake up and work.

Well, you said right at the begining what the problem was, Packard Hell.

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Joshua D. Boyd