First post, by Cacofiend
Howdy. I got myself into retro gaming a month ago and built this rig:
I intend to dualboot Win98/WinXP. I got an X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card, which lacks the Win98 drivers, because 99% of the gaming I'll be doing on XP.
I figure it doesn't matter, I'll just use the integrated sound card on Win98. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. Something about the drivers...
I am a bit confused as to what motherboard I have, since MSI doesn't officially list mine. Here's how it looks:
It's red, and on it, two things are written
- 865PE Neo2-P
- MS-6728 Ver:2
MSI website only lists the following motherboards, none of which are mine:
My BIOS version is 3.31A.
On the website, a bios of that version doesn't seem to exist for any of the listed boards.
Neo2-P Platinum looks the closest to mine by name, but mine is not Platinum - different color and mine has an active cooler on the north bridge.
I found this website that lists my mobo, but is of no help otherwise.
Anyway, they all have this for Audio in the manual:
Their website lists no audio drivers for Windows 98. They list audio drivers for WinXP, and IN THE DESCRIPTION OF SAID DRIVER, IT SAYS SUPPORT FOR WIN98. Installing this drivers wrecks the Windows installation, some mscsrv32.exe error and Windows can't load. I suppose this is why they delisted it from the Win98 section.
Vogons has two drivers for AC'97: 3.41 and 3.62
Both are WMD for Win98. They install fine and Windows claims to have a sound device. Everything seems correct -- unfortunately, it makes no sound.
Installing VXD for Win95 from the same source produces no sound either.
Realtek has a later driver, 4.06 I think, but after installation the sound device has an exclamation mark in the device manager.
I found two instances of similar problem on the internet. The owners have fixed the problem by "installing a VXD driver". Where did they get their hands on a Win98 VXD driver? Does it exist, or did they mean a Win95 driver?
I don't think I can solve it on my own, so I come to you.