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Dell M1210 audio soundcard not recognised – Any ideas? USB external soundcard?
Hi guys,
I’m trying to install Xpress Pro 5.2 on a Dell M1210 (2GHz Duo Core, 2GB RAM, 100GB 7200rpm hard disk).
The soundcard is not supported by the Xpress Pro application and I get the error ‘No supported audio card found’ on startup and have to run it without audio. The on-board sound card driver is sigmatel.
I know the M1210 is not officially part of the Avid compatible list, but it’s frustrating given that everything else seems to work.
Does anybody have any ideas on a workaround for this?
I bought an Audigy Z2 PCMCIA card (which seems to be a common workaround for laptops that don’t have an Avid supported audio card) but the M1210 only has a PCI-Express slot. In other words the slot is too small for PCMCIA cards and I haven’t been able to find any PCI-Express cards that handle audio. Is there a USB external soundcard that can handle the job? Or has anyone got any other pointers or experience of successfully running XPress Pro on an M1210?
Any help/ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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2 Replies
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Fixed it. Posting the answer here for reference.
I purchased a USB Blaster 5.1 external soundcard from Creative and now the program runs fine. https://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Creative%20USB%20Sound%20Blaster%20Live%20(24-bit%20External)%20Sound%20Card:1991616859 shows an example of one for the curious.
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Many thanks ! I had the same issue with my Dell 1210.
Patrick
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