First post, by Hudson187
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So, I've just built a Win9x retro box to fit my DOS and Win9x gaming needs. This system consists of a P3 700 (soon to be a 1ghz), 256mb PC100 (soon to be 512mb PC133), GF3 Ti 500, SLI Voodoo2 12mb, 10/100/1000 NIC, Asus P3V4X with latest Bios, 80gb HD and a MX300 (soon with a DB50XG DC) all with a complete fresh install of Win98SE.
This is where I have a issue. I installed Windows 98SE without any problems, then applied the Via 4in1 drivers version 4.17 (the best for this board for performance), the Unofficial Win98 SP 2.xxA, installed the Nvidia drivers, then the Voodoo2 FastVoodoo drivers, my NIC drivers then the Aureal reference drivers for the sound card.
Now, the sound card is detected fine upon driver installation and works great, but when I reboot, the sound card goes missing! It seems like the bios is not finding the card. If I remove the card from the PCI slot, it will be found when the computer is turned back on. I've tried different PCI slots, turning bios to default, bios set to PNP OS and not PNP OS.
Any suggestions? I've looked around online and can't seem to find anything relating to this issue. Things I have not tried are: flashing the bios back to a older version, another MX300 card (I do have a extra card), uninstalling the SP pack, formatting and starting from scratch. Everything else works great, I was even playing Blood (DOS) and Unreal. The mobo is brand new (from old stock I found at the company I work for), so I doubt its that.