Author Topic: Plantronics Headset, need drivers please (Read 1990 times)

Zoldamite · « **Reply #30 on:** December 05, 2004, 02:50:15 PM »

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Cobra412 · « **Reply #31 on:** December 05, 2004, 03:19:17 PM »

hmmm. Did you uninstall your old audio drivers before installing these?

Problem with direct x is you can't uninstall it and reinstall as far as I know. For direct x you have to just reload over the top.

Cobra412 · « **Reply #32 on:** December 05, 2004, 03:38:20 PM »

Can you try this for me.

When you turn on a computer that contains an Intel-supported desktop boards, you will see the BIOS identification string near the top left corner of the screen. If your computer displays the Intel® logo screen during system boot, you can bypass this screen by pressing the Esc key. This allows the display of the BIOS code.

Intel BIOS for Desktop Boards
Recent Intel Desktop Boards use Intel/AMI BIOS patterns that looks like this:

MV85010A.86A.0011.P05
or
EV91510A.86A.0209

The characters BEFORE the first period indicate what desktop board you have. In the examples above, the "MV85010A" identifies the Intel® Desktop Board D850MV and the "EV91510A" identifies the Intel® Desktop Board D915GEV.

I think your running a version of the 810E board and this info would confirm that. Here's another driver site for that contains that series of board in it. It has every driver needed for the 810 and 810E motherboards. 810/810E Motherboard Drivers

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #33 on:** December 05, 2004, 04:27:56 PM »

Since I dont use the equipment you have, I dont know if your headset is a separate "sound card" in itself, or if it depends on the one recognized by Windows to function. I'm assuming from the issues you had before with this setup that it is a standalone sound device.

Your "problem" is, in all probability, a combination of problems. First, if this is a standalone sound device it shoud be listed in the hardware manager once you have drivers loaded. If its not, and it doesnt recognize your device, or doesnt recognize it during driver installation, there might be a problem with your USB port. Do you have any other USB devices? If so, are they working properly? If they are, try unplugging them and plug your headphones into that jack, see if you can install the drivers now. Plugging the headphones into the output jacks from the computer wont do a darn thing if your onboard sound chip isnt functional.

As for that, Crystal Sound Fusion manufactures millions of onboard sound chips for installation on motherboards of every type imaginable. And they all have one thing in common. They all sux. They are as common as dirt, and work about as well. They are notoriously buggy and incompatible with a double-handful of games I can mention, and probably more I dont know about. Add to that the fact that you have an older model chip, running under Windows 98. Dx 9.0 wont be compatible with any of your drivers, as Microsoft stopped supporting Win98 a year ago (this is not a knock on Win98, I still like it better than XP, but as time goes on it is going to be harder and harder to find drivers for stuff). Taking all of these into account, you probably wont find a truly updated driver for your model of Crystal soundchip. The originals should be on the restore CD you got from Gateway with the computer. You can probably get an update for those, but it still wont be any later (more than likely) than mid-03.

My reccommendation to you is to go into your BIOS setup and disable the onboard sound. Yours might be a jumper on the motherboard even. Then you can concentrate on getting your headset to work without worrying about the onboard sound interfering (this is still assuming your headphones operate independantly of need for a sound card). Then if you decide you want exterior speakers later, you can buy a soundcard and add it on.

Zoldamite · « **Reply #34 on:** December 05, 2004, 06:20:07 PM »

thanks for help again guys......i have considered XP but with my 256mb of ram i didnt think it would run that great, i have a 10gig HD and just put in another 10gig so that comes to 20. what are your thoughts....or better yet would win xp pro work ok? i know when i upgraded to win ME Aces High was unplayable but i have read reviews on WIN ME and most were not that great. it just seemed to have errors but that might have been me and it just ran games super slow. if you guys think winxp would run ok i may try that

::EDIT:: afrika, i have exterior speakers right now and these are the ones that came with computer they worked great actually (7 years old now) a 2.1 set of bostons.........but they just arent woking now that im only running 98, i ran 98se for a while before slicking then i got tired of it asking me for a win98se disk when i didnt have it so it couldnt finish installing things so i broke down and went to this.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #35 on:** December 05, 2004, 07:13:30 PM »

Zoldamite, theres a good reason Microsoft put out the 98SE update. The original Windows 98 had some serious flaws. If that is all you have, I'd seriously consider upgrading to XP if I were you. It would definitely solve your driver problems (IMO). I'd still reccommend a different sound card, I stand by my statement that Crystal soundchips have compatibility issues with alot of games. But if you are going to use the headset heavily, maybe you wont need to.

256 MB of RAM is enough to run Windows XP. Things might get slow, and your AHII is surely suffering with only that much RAM, no matter what your Operating System is. What type of RAM do you use? The "speed" rating I mean. Is it DDR RAM, or are you using older PC133 RAM? Second question, do you have any open slots for RAM? I may have some extra, I'll have to look. I think I have 256MB of PC2100 DDR RAM I'm not using, and I know I have 256MB of PC133 I wont use.

If you really want to stay with Windows 98, I have a 98SE CD.

SA2

Zoldamite · « **Reply #36 on:** December 05, 2004, 07:28:54 PM »

my ram is about 5 years old or older, it is not ddr ram and i only have 2 slots both are taken with dinky 128mb.i would love to have win SE but i dont know anywhere i could download it, bearshare has it but i am trying to avoid downloading that again after i slicked, sister likes to download songs 20 at a time and never delete them, any other places i could get a good download for it no errors or viruses in it. and at christmas time i am getting new comp so i will not have these problems hopefully, and will maybe be running winxp pro might get it from sisters boyfriends friend.. and i believe you on the crappy crystal audio statement
in AH i sometimes get around 30fr but thats when i first got the computer used and no bearshare or any other problems over the summer.....but i would love to get win98se download from somewhere but just dont know where, and if i save the files to a folder then burn to a cd i will have the "WIN98SE" disk that it ask for when you install new things right?

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #37 on:** December 05, 2004, 08:46:05 PM »

Zoldamite, email me your physical address and I'll mail you the CD. My email is

exileshiden@aol.com

Zanth · « **Reply #38 on:** December 06, 2004, 09:02:22 AM »

site for drivers, any and all drivers for anything:

http://www.driverguide.com

AKDogg · « **Reply #39 on:** December 06, 2004, 02:47:20 PM »

Why don't u try getting a SB live 5.1 for like 20 bucks and solve all your problems. U will greatly improve game performance and sound quality. I have a 815 chipset computer here I gave to my son with a p3 1ghz, 512 meg 133 cas 2 ram, geforce 2 GTS 32meg, 40 gig WD 7200rpm HD, SB Audigy soundcard, 52x cdrom, and running XP Pro. With that computer he plays AHII on it and actually gets 50 fps with it. Now I do have it set up as 800x600 res but still dam good for a GF2 GTS vid, lol.

Now with the 810 chipset that U have, if U upgrade your ram, U probably can only use pc100 and up to 512 megs ram (Limits of the chipset).

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #40 on:** December 06, 2004, 04:53:23 PM »

I think his biggest problem right now is that (I think) he has a partial install of Win98SE, and he used a 1st ed. Win98 CD to finish the install (i.e. the drivers are all Win98 instead of 98SE). Either that or he is just running 1st edition Win98, I couldnt make out which. Either way, 1st ed. 98 is going to give him problems. Then add on the buggy 98 drivers for the Crystal Audio setup, and the performance hit he's going to take if he gets that headset working .................. all that combined with only 256 MB of RAM (and slow PC100/133 RAM at that) of rather venerable age, considering, and he has alot of problems to solve and balance.

Zoldamite · « **Reply #41 on:** December 06, 2004, 04:58:50 PM »

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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
Zoldamite, email me your physical address and I'll mail you the CD. My email is

exileshiden@aol.com

no way would you really do that? i could send you some money for shipping if you want. thats great