First post, by Baoran
I wanted to install Diamond MX300 sound card in my windows 98 se pc. but windows 98 se thinks that none of the drivers are compatible with the card. The is the yellow exclamation mark in device manager that says pci multimedia device, but when I try to install drivers for it, it just doesn't think there are any drivers that are compatible. I tried both MX300 drivers that are in vogonsdrivers, no luck. Next I tried newest aureal vortex drivers (AU8830 9x 4.06.2048 driver) and I point the driver install to win9x directory and again it doesn't find any compatible drivers there.
Next thing was that I thought perhaps there is some kind of incompatibility with the system and I put the sound card to another pc. Switch another hard drive to that pc and install win98se there. Same thing win98se thinks there is no compatible drivers for the card anywhere.
Now I am thinking that the card must be broken and I am ready to ask my money back for it, but I decide to do one more thing. In this computer (which is not the one I want to install the card to permanently to) I put winxp pro install cd in the drive and upgrade win98se to winxp. WinXP finished installing just 10 minutes ago and everything is fine in device manager and I tried playing an audio cd and it plays perfectly through the sound card. I haven't tried anything else yet.
I'm confused, if the card is not broken, how do I get it to work in win98se?