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To: EdH who wrote (1113)	6/5/1998 2:30:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Ed, I personally I have had no difficulty with AWE32's. I own 5 of them and think they are basically solid cards. If I were buying a new system though I would be looking for a PCI sound card. Sean

To: EdH who wrote (1113)	6/5/1998 6:06:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

The AWE 32 interacts poorly with NT since it is a PNP ISA card. This entails installing a special PNPISA driver on NT. The install and driver upgrade procedures are not straightforward and have traps for the unwary (take this from the unwary<G>). I have no direct experience with the AWE 64, but it appears to be very similar from the documentation. I have also had problems with interaction with the PNP bios on a particular mobo, now fortunately put to rest. But don't take these too seriously. The point of my earlier message was that if you don't want wave-table synthesis, there are simpler and cheaper cards. These cards are some trouble, but so are many sound cards.