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Do the following to install the sound card for your XP in Windows 95

1. Power down your WinBook XP5
2. Turn the XP5 over.
3. Remove the 2"X2" square panel from the bottom of the laptop.
4. Insert the sound card and close up the panel.
5. Turn the laptop back over and power it on.
6. Once the unit is in Windows click on start, go up to settings and over to control panel.
7. In control panel choose Add New Hardware.
8. Tell it Next.
9. You should then get a screen that lets you choose whether or not you want windows to search for your hardware. Select the NO option and tell Windows next.
10. You will now have a listing of hardware types. Choose Sound, Video, and Game Controllers and click next .
11. You will now have a listing of manufactures and models. Choose ESS Technologies Inc. as the manufacturer and the ESS ES1688 Audio Drive as the model.
12. After selecting the Manufacture and Model click on next.
13. You will then be shown a screen that lists the resources windows will use. Tell it Next.
14. You will then be on a finish screen. Click finish
15. You will now be asked if you want to shut down tell Windows NO.
16. In Control panel go to the system icon and enter system properties.
17. Choose the device manger tab.
18. In device manager highlight the ESS 1688 AUDIO DRIVE it is under the SOUND VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS heading.
19. After the ESS 1688 Audio Drive is highlighted click on properties.
20. Go to the resources tab.
21. Remove the check from box next to use automatic settings.
22. The resources list 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)
23. Once it has 2 I/O ranges, 1 IRQ, 1 DMA you will need to change the resources to be the following:

I/O 0220-022f

I/O 0388-038b

IRQ 5

DMA 1

24. After the resources have been set close out of device manager.
25. Windows will give you a message that you have adjusted one or more resources manually tell it O.K.
26. Then choose the shut down restart in MS-DOS mode shut down option
27. This will bring you to a dos prompt. Press Ctrl Alt S at the same time to enter the system BIOS.
28. 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
29. After the settings are correct press the Esc key the press F4. This will reboot the system
30. You should now have sound.

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