Problem solved by just installing the Audigy driver not by Creative installation utility but by installing them via the Device Manager. UPD: Had to install CT4670 (Live! Value) instead of Audigy because of absence of normal drivers for Windows 98SE and SB16 DOS driver.

Your sound card IS fine, this is proven by the fact you hear startup sounds and you can manually play sounds through explorer. Windows must not be registering that an event (such as a error dialog box) has happened so not playing an sound. It is a windows error not a hardware one. but anyway What …

If the same audio file fails to play in one of two different Windows programs, the first option would be the Windows program it fails to play in. Are you absolutely sure you haven't got anything muted in the program itself? The second option is that your installation of Windows 98 is somehow borked …

The sound card works properly, but the problems may lie within drivers, as I said before in this topic.

Sound card is set as default. All audio files play normally via Windows Media Player. Plus I want the SB16 emulation available, I heard that is available in Audigy? I suspect that those drivers aren't working properly for SB0160 and on Windows 98. Plus after I install the driver, after the restart, …

Sorry, I meant that Windows sound schemes are unchanged and so are volumes. There are no sound after startup sound and Creative intro, playing Windows sounds from a sound scheme settings by using a "Play" button doesn't work, but strangely MIDI does play from a sound player.

Windows sound schemes and volume settings are unchanged. Everything must be working from the beginning, as I installed the sound driver.

I have made a retro PC with purpose of using Windows 98 SE and XP (on dual boot). My sound card of my configuration is Sound Blaster ES, model SB0160. I've downloaded the CD drivers for my Audigy card from here and installed them on Windows 98 system. After the installation, the only sounds I heard …