[02walshe]

Hi,
I recently got an old laptop with NeoMagic 256AV sound card. It had 95 and ran all i wanted except multi-monitor support. I therefore decided to upgrade to 98, and did so. I did a backup of the drivers, and all the files I wanted to keep. I started the laptop up, and was greeted by 'the microsoft sound'. But then when I went to play an audio CD, it came up with the 'Sound card in use' error.
This has happened after re-installing the drivers countless times, installing a generic driver 5 times, downloading the drivers off of the internet twice, from different locations, and installing them countless times. I also re-installed windows at least 5 times!

Are there any drivers that will allow me to use the computer without the sound cutting out? When I used the microsoft generic driver, it installed, after forcing windows to accept it, and worked... until I tried starting it up the other day, so I tried re-installing the old drivers, no sound... back to the generic driver... now no sound...

Does anyone know what is wrong? Why does it work in 95 but not 98?
Is my hardware faulty?

 

[rollnw24inkmc]

make sure the drivers your getting are for Windows 98, and make sure the sound card is compatible with Windows 98. if not there are external sound cards you can get for it.

 

[02walshe]

hi,
I've tried using both windows 98 and 95 drivers, and nothing seems to work!

 

[rollnw24inkmc]

What Version of Windows 98 do you have, the first or second version, make sure the drivers your getting are for that OS, and if that fails, it could be that the neomagic sound card has failed it self and it isnt software related. in which cases you could go with out sound or get a replacement one that would slide into the slot on the side

 

[02walshe]

hi,
It's Windows 98 v1 (not SE), and I think my graphics and sound card are the same thing, and the display works fine (albeit lacking in RAM).

I don't think it is hardware related, as using the 'MS sound card Compatible' driver, it worked, only now it doesn't.

Does anyone know of a generic driver I can use? I don't need all the 3D effects, just to be able to play sounds without crashing.

 

[02walshe]

Hi,
Decided to give up on the sound card, and buy a USB version instead.