Audio '97 Problem

Aunty Em

Aunty Em

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OK, I persuaded the samsung and seagate drives to work together by making the seagate master and the samsung slave.

However I now have another problem - having formatted and reinstalled windows '98 the VGA and INF drivers installed fine but for the life of me I can't get the damn Audio '97 drivers to install.

I have tried everything I can think of, which isn't a great deal. When I try to install them through Device Manager the wizard keeps asking me for the win 98 disc even though I've told it that it's on another disc and given the path. It then tells me it can't find the drivers.

I tried installing by exploring the disc and double-clicking the program set-up icon but it stops installing at 50%. I seem to remember I had problems first time around but I can't remember how I solved it.

I'm seriously thinking of just disabling the audio in the bios and installing a cheap soundblaster compatible card.
 
yea thats a good idea, the AC97 audio ain't the best by a long shot, and as far as i remember fairly cpu hogging.
 
I'll ditto that, you can pick up a cheap sound card and save yourself alot of trouble.
 
I ordered a 4 channel card for £9 including postage(I can't believe they're that cheap!) it should be here by friday via recorded post. The onboard video at 4 MB is fine as none of her programs use more than 2MB acceleration, but I will look for a cheap 32MB after I finish upgrading mine.
 
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Whatever company puts out sound cards in the box would quickly run into lawsuit trouble from Creative Labs in the US. That box looks a hell of a lot like the design for the Sound Blaster box.
 
Inkara1 said:
Whatever company puts out sound cards in the box would quickly run into lawsuit trouble from Creative Labs in the US. That box looks a hell of a lot like the design for the Sound Blaster box.
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That's what I thought when I first saw it - I think they may be a licenced partner though - it should be here some time tomorrow, probably before I want to get up as we're now officially on holiday for 2 weeks. :rolleyes:
 
yeah, sound is cheap right now. (except for the Audigy)
I just got a SB live 5.1 for like $33.
Just sitting on the shelf right now.

I haven't had any problems with the ac;97 stuff though.
You might try updated drivers. (ms might have updates on the win update site)
 
Nah, too much like hard work. I installed the card this morning, it's about a hundred times better than the onboard sound and it has some nice software with it.

Personally for my own computer I don't buy mobos with onboard sound I always use a soundcard. I have an SB 5.1 but I'm ugrading to the Audigy Platinum early next year after I've upgraded my mobo, cpu, heatsink and ram.
 
the audigys are pretty good, my A7V333's c-media audio really surprised me as well, decent, but i chucked an audigy in it just for the hell of it :D
 
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