Echo Indigo CardBus soundcard and ThinkPad T42

[mbarbet]

Does anyone know if the Echo Indigo will or will not work with Thinkpad T series laptop? I have a lot of troubles to use Echo Indigo on my ThinkPad T42 2379 DXU with Windows XP Pro. I constantly get a yellow exclamation on the device manager with error message that says "This device cannot start." I have downloaded the most recent driver from Echo Audio web site. I have also tried uninstall and reinstall the driver many times but the problem refuse to go away.

Can anyone help me solve this problem? Any help will be greatly appreciated. TIA

[G-Man]

Have you uninstalled the SoundMax audio driver?

Regards,
G-Man

[mbarbet]

Thanks G-Man!!!

I don't think I have done that unless Echo's software automatically did that when I installed the drivers. I just followed the instructions that came with the Indigo card. There are no words mention about uninstall anything. Would you mind telling me how to check if it is uninstalled and how to uninstall it if it has not done so.

Thanks again!

Mbarbet

[Chun-Yu]

You shouldn't need to uninstall the current soundcard though - Windows is perfectly happy about using multiple soundcards. At one point, I even had 3 (2 + onboard) in a desktop.

[G-Man]

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>Sound, video and game controllers>SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio>right click. First just disable it, and reboot. If the PC Card soundcad still doesn't work, uninstall the driver, and reboot. Windows will probably detect the SoundMax soundcard, and wants to install the drivers for it, but just cancel it.

Hope it will work.

Regards,
G-Man