poweredge 1600sc

I have a dell poweredge 1600sc server with no onboard sound. I have tried installing an aftermarket sound card via pci slot. After installing the card the machine will boot all the way up to the point where you click your name to start windows. Then I get "parity error, hardware failure, the system has halted" I have tried several different cards and always end up the same. I have tried different pci slots and end up the same. My nic is in a pci slot and it works in all of them. I have run through the bios and even tried manually setting an irq for the sound card with no luck. I am running a single xeon 2.0 processor although the motherboard will accomadate two processors. I have updated the bios to the latest version and used the latest drivers for the sound cards. I have 1.5gig of ddr true parity ram. Am I missing something simple or am I just SOL on the sound for this thing?

Thanks in advance for your help:swear:

 

Which sound card you are using?
Which operating system you are on?

 

windows xp is the os, as far as the sound card....I have tried several different ones and always end up the same. I am assuming with it giving me a parity error that it has something to do with my ram because I have to use parity ram with this mobo. Or maybe and irq issue.

 

Check this [link=http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/ram/parityBoot-c.html]Receiving a parity error as soon as you boot up the PC[/link]

 

Thanks, checking it out now.

 

UMMMM OK, updated my processor drivers and now I have sound.????? Cant see how this worked but it did. Thanks for the help

 

UMMMM OK, updated my processor drivers and now I have sound.????? Cant see how this worked but it did. Thanks for the help.

Hi. I'm trying to install a sound card too, with the exact same results. When you say you updated your processor drivers, what do you mean? Here is a link on the Dell site that has updates for this machine. Which one is the processor driver update that you mentioned?

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