🔊 Padarsey PCIe Sound Card for PC Windows 7 with Low Profile Bracket - 5.1 Internal Sound Card, PCI-e Audio Card with CMI8738 Chip, 3D Stereo, 32/64 Bit, PCI Express Adapter Review

My onboard computer broke due to Windows 10 and Windows support was as helpful as wet toilet paper on a dam brake so I looked for an available card. It's something you can't plug in like you used to, at least for this card. Device Manager sees it, but the software doesn't install Ether from the web or CD. Just create a folder and transfer the Windows 10 files from the CD to the folder. Use the initial setup and you're done. So far everything is working fine. You won't get super quality studio…

Beware of cmedia site notices as follows. *Please note: C-Media no longer supports Win10 drivers for the CMI873x or CMI876x series. , contact the product vendor for a customized Win10 driver. However, if your product didn't apply the custom driver when you bought it, you can just use the default Win10 driver in the box. ----------- this audio card falls into this group of unsupported for win10, cd in the package, the installer does not recognize the sound card installed in the system, had to…

The installation diskette caused me a bit of a headache. The supplied disc did not fully complete the installation. I ended up having to copy the disc and burn it onto another CD. Once this was done, the installation went smoothly and is fully installed. Now a word of caution: since the floppy contains driver files, but not in the way you would normally expect, the floppy presents itself (as if the normal installation process would not load). You need to manually search for the relevant Windows

physically easy to install but the disc that came with it is worthless it didn't load the drivers in my windows 10 hp computer! The security system kept going off and telling me the drive was corrupt! I went to the manufacturer's website: www.cmedia.com, searched for the 8738 model and clicked download. It's a zip file that you open and extract, then download and restart your computer on its own. and voila. Clay is back!