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I have an ubuntu and a windows computer. My ubuntu can detect and play sound from my ES1938/ES1948/ES1969 solo-1 audio driv but windows can't. So I was wondering what to do now?how can I install driver? I am using windows 8

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A concise, practical plan for (and a note on the earlier suggestion from ): Windows Update is a good first try, but the ES1938/ES1948/ES1969 (Solo‑1) drivers that still circulate are from the early 2000s and were released for Win9x/2000/XP—they often aren’t shipped as modern, signed Windows‑8 packages. If Device Manager shows no driver, that’s usually a driver‑availability problem, not a hardware fault. (learn.microsoft.com)

Quick troubleshooting / install flow you can follow:

  1. Identify the card’s Hardware IDs in Device Manager → Properties → Details → Hardware Ids (this gives the PCI VEN/DEV strings you’ll use to search).
  2. Search archives for ES1938/ES1946/ES1969 packages (MajorGeeks, Softpedia, Treexy and similar sites host legacy ES1969 packages). Download and extract — do not run unknown .exe files without checking them.
  3. Use Device Manager → Update driver → Browse my computer → Let me pick → Have Disk and point at the extracted INF (or run the vendor installer in Compatibility mode → Run as administrator). Example hardware ID to look for: PCI\VEN_125D&DEV_1969. (learn.microsoft.com)

If your Windows 8 is 64‑bit: official signed x64 drivers are scarce. A community reverse‑engineered x64 driver exists (see the leecher1337 project), but it requires test mode or other temporary signature‑enforcement workarounds and careful steps (and Secure Boot may block this). If using that route, create a full restore point and follow the project’s install notes. To enable test mode (example): 

bcdedit /set testsigning on
(reboot, install driver, then: bcdedit /set testsigning off)

Use Microsoft’s guidance for test signing and unsigned drivers; be cautious. (github.com)

If those attempts fail, check the motherboard/OEM support pages (some vendors bundled legacy ESS drivers), or use a cheap USB audio adapter or modern PCI/PCIe sound card as a practical fallback. Note: ’s later posts about BlueStacks/graphics appear unrelated to this audio‑driver thread. (downloadwindowsdrivers.info)

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i think you should try online update.

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حاولت ولاكن برنامج بلو ستاك يخبرني يجب تحديث كرت الشاشه

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حاولت ولاكن برنامج بلو ستاك يخبرني يجب تحديث كرت الشاشه

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