• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

No sound problem

rkoenn

rkoenn

Senior member
I just upgraded a friends computer last night from a very old Pentium 200 to an Athlon 1700+. I duped his old hard drive with Win98 on it to the new drive and then removed the enumerator section from the registry. I then ran through the hardware detect and got the system all set up just fine with his Windows 98 installation intact. It did this very smoothly and seems to be running very well. However, I cannot get the integrated sound to work on the system now. It is a SIS 730 chipset based system and Windows detected and installed the SIS drivers with no problem. However, the multimedia capabilities of windows appear to ignore that the sound device is available. It gives no options for the sound device to be used in the Multimedia control panel app. I removed the SIS drivers and had windows redetect/reinstall them and still the same results. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to get the sound working, I would be greatly appreciative.
 
You need to download the Audio drivers for the motherboard.

Windows 98 is more than likely just installing the AC 97 (audio codec), but not the
multimedia drivers, which more than likely were not available when Windows 98 was
released. It would just install the closest generic driver.

Make sure to throughly remove the old drivers first.
 
Thanks for the response, but I did download from SIS's website the latest drivers for that chipset. They were SIS's 7018s I believe. Windows 98 initially found only a Multimedia device which it did not have drivers for. From there I had it redetect and then pointed it to the drivers I had downloaded. It was happy with the SIS drivers and installed the sound device as it normally does and it appears in the hardware as enabled and working. However it does not appear in the multimedia control panel app, although the modem voice device does. If you have any other thoughts, I will gladly entertain them.
 
Although possible, it is generally not recommended that you move a hard drive with windows on it from one system to another, it's far cleaner to do a reinstall, plus it generally makes things work better and faster. That's also quite a big gap there between a P200 and Athlon XP 1700+.

If you don't want to reinstall then I would suggest looking at getting a cheap CMI8738 or similar based PCI soundcard and giving that a go. It does sound like reinstalling windows fresh would fix though because the drivers are actually installing, it's the multimedia side of windows that isn't working correctly.

You could try this however:

1. Uninstall Drivers
2. Reboot Windows
3. Go into Bios and disable the onboard sound
4. Restart and load windows up
5. Reboot and re-enable the onboard sound
6. Load back up and then install the new drivers again

Corm
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top