First post, by Elia1995
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Hi, I finally found my PCI sound card which is a Sound Blaster PCI128 CT4750, but even though I found the right drivers for it in the vogons drivers archive, installed them and not having driver related issues, there comes a huge problem which I can't seem to know how to solve... whenever Windows 98 tries to "activate" it from the device manager... first when I boot it appears with a red cross, after a few hits on the "refresh" button the error appears...
The SBPCI interrupt has been routed incorrectly by the system.AudioPCI inactive. Use Automatic Settings in the Device Manager.
I fought with that error the whole afternoon and evening yesterday and I don't understand how the hell I'm supposed to fix it... I tried to disable IRQ Steering from the PCI Bus properties, I tried everything from the BIOS (switch on/off PnP, setting manual and reserved every single IRQ one at a time and then I set it back to auto, I even tried to disable "Use IRQ for VGA" which apparently didn't nothing bad so I'm keeping it disabled for now...)
I dunno, guys... I really don't know how to fix that, I tried to disable the automatic settings it said which was already on, but I can't change the Interrupt manually, it just doesn't let me to... I also tried different PCI slots (as much as I could move that card around... it's very cramped inside that case...), please help 😢
I even formatted and reinstalled Windows 98 at least 4 times yesterday (I didn't lose anything, I didn't install anything in first place aside few DOS games I copy-pasted from my main PC via ethernet sharing...) and I even tried both Service Pack 2 and Unofficial 3.53, but nothing helped to solve this issue...
The motherboard is, as always, the ASUS A8V-XE, I can't get the HDA drivers to detect the hardware, thus I must use this sound card, I don't like playing Windows 98 games without sounds 😒
SMALL UPDATE: I managed to get it to work removing the SCSI controller, which is another PCI card I use for my 2 SCSI hard drives, obviously it can't be a permanent fix as I can't use my SCSI hard drives now... BUT it sounds awful... lemme explain I plugged it in my main PC as a microphone and enabled the "listening to device" to hear sounds off it as I can't unplug and re-plug the speaker surround set from each computer every minute, that way I can have sound off both computers with the same speakers and I can record the sounds of the Windows 98 PC (although I can't get the capture card to work yet), I hear a constant buzzing noise and the sounds sound... well it's like if you have a sound and add 20 dB to it and you hear it a bit "distorted" aswell... I hope it's an issue with it being plugged in my front panel mic on my main computer... I don't have another set of speakers to test directly in it and I can't fit my 5.1 in that sound card for obvious lack of 3.5mm slots on the card.
What can I do to fix the constant buzzing noise ? I hear it even in the BIOS screen...
Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11
Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard