Smart Riptide PCI Audio Legacy Resources Driver Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Harry
Tested on Windows 98SE

7 Oct 2006

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"Works fine in my Win98se test machine, with the Smart Modular Technologies, Inc (Combo Card) RIPTIDE Modem/Sound, MIDI Combo Card Model No: 90079, FCC # 2D7USA-33303-M5-E, I installed the drivers independently, sound, Modem, and Game Port. Thank's"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Dave Christian
Tested on Windows 98SE

11 Nov 2008
(11 months after download)

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"I have had no problems with this driver running windows 98se on a HP-Pavilion 8576C until the hard drive crashed and I lost the driver. I guess it is start again."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

lynda
Tested on Windows 98SE

28 Mar 2008

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"driver would not install

tried add modem from control panel

no setup files"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

jack benbrook
Tested on Windows ME

2 Nov 2007

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"I think that this is the right driver(90079)for the modem,but there is a audio riser card that plugs into the 90079,I'll have to figure this out."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Jose

8 Jul 2007

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"i start to use and is good, is to all windows versions"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

GAC2K
Tested on Windows XP

10 Jan 2007

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"Errors during setup.

Would not load."

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GAC2K
Tested on Windows XP

10 Jan 2007

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"Errors during setup. Would not load program.

Did not work."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Technology One
Tested on Windows 98SE

7 Jun 2006

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"E-Monster 500 Win98SE"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

William Murray
Tested on Windows XP

2 Feb 2006

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"APPEARS to install and function on windows XP but

soon goes flaky and unstable. Dunno about other platforms."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

marco
Tested on Windows 2000 Professional

15 Dec 2005

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"I tried 4 diferent drivers ,but this in special work

perfectly for win 2000 pro"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Leon
Tested on Windows XP

29 Sep 2005

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"Downloaded 2 times, got errors on the instll both times."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

David
Tested on Windows XP

24 Sep 2005

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"Not for windows XP

subsystem error. Legecy drivers nonexistant

Game sound and music error (header not prepared)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Noelie
Tested on Windows XP

20 Aug 2005

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"worked great with xp pro"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

kevin skynr
Tested on Windows 98SE

4 Aug 2005

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"This is the real Riptide driver for the 90079. There are some install problems with win98 that require after using the zip installer, you must find the drivers with the 'hardware wizard'. Also there are some files missing, but doesn't cause a problem."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

UXP
Tested on Windows 98SE

31 May 2005

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"Sorry it didn't work"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rob Elliott

7 Apr 2005

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"Oops! Wrong driver! sorry"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Joe
Tested on Windows XP

7 Mar 2005

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"Every time I tried to install driver it would abort setup on it's own"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Les
Tested on Windows 2000 Professional

16 Dec 2004

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"Got Installshield wizard "Error on Install..." message, (wouldn't install, useless driver to me."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Jason Tatum

24 Nov 2004

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"Seems to not want to fully download."

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Les

8 Sep 2004

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"This driver installed very easy and seems to be operating good."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

david nguyen

25 Apr 2004

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"Thanks a lot. Your driver website is very useful."

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Doug Harris

12 Mar 2004

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"Worked perfectly. No install problems. Thanks!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Mike

21 Feb 2004

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"AWESOME. Works for Pavilion 6640C. Tried 8 downloads before I found this one. Looked all over HP site, nothing listed under Pavilion 6640. Looked all over with Google. Finally entered 2d7usa-333303-m5-e in Google and found the correct file here at DriverGuide. Thanks."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Robert

19 Feb 2004

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"Install worked great, but it ended up not being the correct driver."

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Robert

19 Feb 2004

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"It ended up being an incorrect modem driver for my system, but install worked."

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Ray Fryer

27 Jan 2004

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"opps. forgot to mention I installed it on a HP Pavilion 6470Z"

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Ray Fryer

27 Jan 2004

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"opps. forgot to mention I installed it on a HP Pavilion 6470Z"

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Ray Fryer

27 Jan 2004

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"I agree to use www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads9/30250.html for Win2000 anyway. Not because I tried rip417na but because the driver at the other location is only around 400k which fits nicely on a floppy. You just extract to C drive and reboot. Worked great. I wonder what's with the 3.2mb size?"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Loner

25 Jan 2004

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"I'm working on a HP Pavilion 6643... I hope this file works....I'll be back if it does....

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Steve

2 Sep 2003

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"Go to the hyperlink below to get the correct Win2000 driver for the Master Riptide PCI Audio Device www2.driverguide.com/uploads/uploads9/30250.html"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Ninh

6 Aug 2003

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"I need a driver for SmartLink V90 56k 5634 ts modem. But I can't find it. Does this drive work with it? please send me the correct driver. Thx"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Duncan McCloud

30 Jun 2003

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"XP Service Pack 1, and possibly just plain old XP, will install this modem as HSP if you go to hardware and click on update driver. Do the auto detect from there. It works fine after that."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Chad

15 Apr 2003

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"You people don't know how to do anything do you. I downloaded this file and it does work. You need to use a program like WINRAR to extract the files. Go to add hardware and select new modem and use the driver from the HCF.W95 folder. It does work or I wouldn't be here now would I! Just because it's not easy doesn't mean it don't work. Alot of windows 98 drivers will w

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

cscottmedrano

14 Apr 2003

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"You know, I thought this was the driver that I had downloaded for win98 (same size). I copied it and tried to use it... it didn't work ... say's cannot recognize audio , modem ... and now i must continue my search . FUU&*^*%*ck !!!!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Tristan

5 Apr 2003

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"Using the win 98 os the installation freezes up when it begins to install the drivers. Help would be nice =)"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Paul L

5 Apr 2003

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"Installer did not detect XP correctly and did not detect my modem. NOT WORTH DOWNLOADING"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Gotalotacharm

6 Mar 2003

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"I'm mistaken...I mean the guys "below" me... -)"

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Gotalotacharm

6 Mar 2003

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"It's too bad the guys above me have no class whatsoever! Driver is for windows 98 (see HP site) -)"

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22 Feb 2003

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"this is an update not a complete driver!!! waste of time!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

vik

14 Jan 2003

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"keeps downloading a cgi file and not the exe. is it because i'm downloading on a mac?"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

pranit

8 Jul 2002

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"did not work for me either .. ("

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

alex

27 Jun 2002

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"this driver does not work!"

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Brad

31 May 2002

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"This Driver did not work for me as well. I downloaded the Windows 2000 driver from www2.driverguide.com/uploads/ uploads7a/6953.html and that worked for me."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Bill

29 Apr 2002

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"This did not work in an HP Pavilion 6545c with Windows XP. Try the driver listed at www2.driverguide.com/uploads/ uploads7a/6953.html. That one woked for me!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Merle Styles

26 Feb 2002

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"The download did not work!! It advises that the file is contaminated or parts missing. Maybe you would forwars a copy to my 'e' mail address. Thanks"

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Walt
Tested on Windows 98SE

30 Jan 2017
(50 minutes after download)

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"I wish to heck we could edit previous reviews because (hello?) sometimes I make mistakes. In rating a much larger version of this package I said it all worked fine but truth was, the modem evidently got a driver from elsewhere -- not from that download. I found that out when I formatted the HD on another machine and started from scratch.

KEY FACT: IF YOU DON'T KNOW

THIS YOU MIGHT NEVER GET THIS CARD WORKING. There are at least TWO (probably THREE) versions of this card. They look very much alike, most numbers are the same, but they need different drivers and are applicable to different computers.

90079 (NO suffix) is the oldest card. It does all the audio processing (pre-AC '97) AND it has an HCF (hardware) modem. THIS card is almost perfectly supported by this (RIP417NA) download. You must find 'genmidi.wsl' somewhere else and point the Win installer to it when it complains that it can't find that name: I THINK that file is in a download that's about 1.3meg -- audiomodemcombo or something like that. Everything else is covered in this download.

This card will show up in your Device Manager as about five devices -- audio, joystick, modem, and a couple more. It has only one entry in 'add/remove software' table: When you uninstall that one, everything goes away.

To install this support, remove any support currently installed, double click the downloaded EXE to extract its files. Know where your Genmidi.wsl file is. Double click the Install.exe that was extracted. When it finishes, restart and Win 98 will loop through discovering and installing the necessary drivers, asking only about the Genmidi file. You should now have proper function for all the stuff this card does.

90079-2 is the 'new' card. It has AC '97 audio, meaning that the digital part of the processing is done on the MOBO so it needs different drivers AND must be used with a computer and OS that does the on MOBO part of the processing. The card only has an audio amp -- no real audio processing.

This card ALSO has an HSF (software) modem. That is, most of the modem's work is done by a program running in the CPU. So again you have to have the right drivers. When looking at driver packages several modules will have either HSF... or HCF... as their name and if a package doesn't have the ones matching your card it's a waste of time to try to install it.

These cards can be distinguished by the Model Number, found near the left middle on the back side -- either 90079 or 90079-2. Also, the HSF (-2) cards lack the modem chip which is an RDSP020, about 3/4" square near the lower right on the front of the card. THE FCC IDs (AND OTHER NUMBERS) ARE IDENTICAL and most people seem to think the two cards are interchangeable, but they are not.

Is there a 90079-1? Probably. And probably it either has AC '97 audio and an HCF modem or 'early' audio and an HSF modem but I've no idea which.

In most cases the best bet will be the card shipped with the machine you're installing it on. EBay is a good source, they're cheap, and you can tell from the picture which is which. It is possible to install the early card on other PCI machines, for example if you are slot-challenged; i have two of 'em on early Dell machines used for old games.

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