Windows 98 Sound

[coolego1]

I have an IBM Thinkpad 600E laptop that is relatively old. I have Windows 98 (not SE) and I get sound occasionally. I don't know what it is that causes this, but often, I lose sound and nothing is audible. I try to restart and that only works about 1 out of 10 times for no apparent reason. Sometimes I can remove the sound devices from the system using the device manager and then when I restart it reinstalls the devices and sometimes works. I have the most recent drivers from IBM, and the sound card is called "Crystal Soundfusion PCI Audio Accelerator"

Thanks in advance!

 

[LiLithTecH]

Do you have any problems with the Modem?

Is there any errors in the DEVICE MANAGER?

 

[xgsound]

Sound cards of that era ?sometimes? work best with specific interupts and memory locations. Win98fe (first edition) misses many conflicts in this area and win98se is only slightly better. Conflicting items can be modems, printers, and USB devices particularly.

Here is my line in autoexec.bat c:\dektest1\ess\ESSCFG /A:220 /I:5 /D:3 /E:1 /B:330 for my basic Ess sound card which forces windows to include certain config modes. The A is for .wav sound, main choices are 210, 220, 240. I is for interupt, main choices are 5,7. B is for midi, main choices are 310, 330, 340. Look for similiar settings for your card and play around after you write down current settings.

If you use usb, win98se would be a better alternative with the "update rollup" at http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html if you can


Jim