First post, by justin1985
I've been trying to restore a Toshiba T8100 laptop that I recently acquired. It was working with a very crud-filled Windows 2000 installation and the previous users' files all over, so I decided to swap the 2.5" HDD for a mSATA drive in an adapter, and do a fresh install of Windows 98 SE, for better chance of running games, and as it was the OS of the original license sticker. I've managed to get the S3 graphics working properly using the drivers on the Vogons driver library, but haven't had any luck at all in installing any of the available sound drivers for the PCI sound chip, described in the spec sheets as Yamaha DS-XG YMF744B-R. Every available driver for this chip isn't accepted by Windows when rebooting and searching for a driver. The EXE versions of the driver download seem to create a folder in the Windows Temp folder, but Windows can't find a suitable driver there. I'm guessing the specific implementation in this laptop is a bit different from standard?
It looks like Toshiba / Dynabook had a specific driver available on their site as t810snd9.exe , but it now returns file not found.
Can anyone share the t810snd9.exe file? Or suggest any other way of getting this working?
I don't have a restore disk, and the spinning hard disk doesn't seem to be the original (the caddy is marked "Toshiba 6Gb HDD Assembly" but contains a 16Gb drive) so doesn't seem to contain anything from prior to the Windows 2000 installation 🙁
