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Installing the Sound Card:

1. Turn off your WinBook laptop.
2. Disconnect all external peripherals.
3. Turn the unit over so you are looking at the bottom of the laptop.
4. Carefully remove the 2 inch by 2 inch small square panel to reveal the insert socket for the sound card on the motherboard. This is directly underneath the WinBook XP label on the bottom of the WinBook Laptop.
5. If you look at the ESS 688 sound card there are two small white connection sockets that fit into the receptacle sockets on the motherboard.
6. Snap the sound card into the sockets at a 45-degree angle.
7. Make sure the sound card is securely in place.
8. Replace the 2 inch by 2 inch sound card laptop case cover.

Installing the Driver:

1. Boot your unit into Windows.
2. Click on Start, Settings and then Control Panel.
3. In control panel double click on Add New Hardware.
4. Click on Next.
5. When asked if you would like windows to search for your hardware click on No then on Next.
6. You will now have a listing of hardware types. Click on Sound, Video, and Game Controllers and then Next .
7. You will now have a listing of manufactures and models. Click on ESS Technologies Inc. as the manufacturer and ESS ES688 Audio Drive as the model.
8. After selecting the Manufacture and Model click on Next.
9. You will then be shown a screen that lists the resources windows will use. Click on Next.
10. Click finish
11. Click on No.
12. In Control panel, double click on system to bring up System Properties.
13. Click on the Device Manger tab.
14. In device double click on the plus symbol next to Sound Video And Game Controllers and then click once on ESS 688 Audio Drive.
15. Click on properties.
16. Click on the Resources tab.
17. Remove the check from box next to use automatic settings by clicking on it once.
18. The resources listed on the screen should have 2 I/O ranges, 1 IRQ, 1 DMA. If it does not you will need to change the basic configuration setting until it matches the above configuration. (Basic configuration 0001 usually works)
19. Once it has 2 I/O ranges, 1 IRQ, 1 DMA you will need to change the resources to match the following:
20. 
    
    • I/O 0220-022f
    • 
      
    • I/O 0388-038b
    • 
      
    • IRQ 5
    • 
      
    • DMA 1
21. After the resources have been set close out of device manager.
22. Windows will give you a message that you have adjusted one or more resources manually, click on OK.
23. Click on Start, shut down, and then select Restart In MS-DOS Mode, click on OK.
24. This will bring you to a dos prompt. Press Ctrl+Alt+S at the same time to enter the system BIOS.
25. Page down to page 3 and make sure that internal audio is enabled and on IRQ 5 if it is not arrow down to the heading and press the Space Bar to change the settings
26. After the settings are correct press the Esc key and then press F4. This will reboot the system

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