Help finding a working driver for an older sound card for Win 7

velvta · Post by **velvta** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:18 pm

I use a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. The device hasnt been supported in years and I was wondering if anyone can help me with finding a way to get the drivers working in windows 7 x64?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:31 pm

32-bit & 64-bit drivers for Windows 7 and Windows Vista are available for the following products: AA_Micro, AA_Micro II, AA_Amigo, AA_SRM, AK-R8, Riviera and Montego DDL. All other "Turtle Beach" and "Voyetra" Hardware and Software Products (including the Video Advantage Capture series) were discontinued long before the release of these technologies, so they are not supported and they will not function in these systems.

From the turtle beach site

http://www.turtlebeach.com/support/index.php?View=files

velvta · Post by **velvta** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:43 pm

CableDude wrote:32-bit & 64-bit drivers for Windows 7 and Windows Vista are available for the following products: AA_Micro, AA_Micro II, AA_Amigo, AA_SRM, AK-R8, Riviera and Montego DDL. All other "Turtle Beach" and "Voyetra" Hardware and Software Products (including the Video Advantage Capture series) were discontinued long before the release of these technologies, so they are not supported and they will not function in these systems.

From the turtle beach site

http://www.turtlebeach.com/support/index.php?View=files

Yeah i saw that. I also saw some random posts on forums talking about people who have attempted using the drivers and getting them to run anyway on win7x64 but I was having no luck. i was wondering if anyone here knew any possible workarounds or anything.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:50 pm

Your likely going to have to replace the card.. I think I looked around a while back for one myself but no luck.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:10 pm

People have gotten the drivers to work in windows 7 32bit, but not 64bit. There are some great sound cards that have to die with XP sadly.

velvta · Post by **velvta** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:29 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:People have gotten the drivers to work in windows 7 32bit, but not 64bit. There are some great sound cards that have to die with XP sadly.

Question, what about Ac97? Is that onboard audio? It's enabled in the bios and detected in device manager but still no sound...

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:37 pm

Ya thats onbard sound, grab the driver off your mobo manucafturer's site.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:10 am

Typically AC97 was used in mobo's, however some cards and even some modems used it as well... It is quite old and was replaced by HD about 6 years ago. (Intel developed that standard in 1997, thus the AC 97...)

Does your mobo have onboard sound? If so, did you disable it in BIOS before trying those drivers that you said wouldn't work?
To be honest, if your mobo has onboard sound, it is probably HD and may be better than that card anyway, depending on your mobo...

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:24 am

Assuming his mobo is the one in his sig his onboard audio is a RealTek ALC65X, which seems to be based on the AC97 codec.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:44 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Assuming his mobo is the one in his sig his onboard audio is a RealTek ALC65X, which seems to be based on the AC97 codec.

Yeah, I saw that, except he lists that computer as having XP SP2, and he is looking for drivers for Win 7 x64... It could be the same computer though...