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First post, by PlaneVuki

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Hi !

Laptop is Compaq Evo N1020V, p4, 512gb ram. I am looking for audio driver to work with windows98se. Tried many but all failed. Can someone please suggest driver that actually works?

Here s info from xp, which recognizes it and works without any extrnal driver:
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Info at drivers.eu, that I also tried, but it fails by saying that no codec is installed.
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Any suggestions?

Reply 1 of 3, by Horun

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From some searching: If that has the ALI 1535 chipset then there are no Win98 drivers for the ADI soundmax Codec to work with. Only Win2000 and XP.
https://drivers.eu/Chipset/ALi/M1535
If it has a Intel ICH 2, 3 or 4 southbridge then there are Win98 Audio drivers for the ADI soundmax Codec as well as 2000 and XP from HP
That is what info I could find......

edit: for shits-n-grins here are the two 2004 Compaq/HP archive links to drivers:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040223085112/htt … te/20_5178.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20040316184325/htt … te/63_5178.html

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 2 of 3, by PlaneVuki

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Horun wrote on 2022-08-27, 20:46:
From some searching: If that has the ALI 1535 chipset then there are no Win98 drivers for the ADI soundmax Codec to work with. O […]
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From some searching: If that has the ALI 1535 chipset then there are no Win98 drivers for the ADI soundmax Codec to work with. Only Win2000 and XP.
https://drivers.eu/Chipset/ALi/M1535
If it has a Intel ICH 2, 3 or 4 southbridge then there are Win98 Audio drivers for the ADI soundmax Codec as well as 2000 and XP from HP
That is what info I could find......

edit: for shits-n-grins here are the two 2004 Compaq/HP archive links to drivers:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040223085112/htt … te/20_5178.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20040316184325/htt … te/63_5178.html

Tried all of those with no success. Thanks.

Anyone else can suggest a link to a working driver?

Without a working sound in win98 I am limited to using xp, which I don't like.

Reply 3 of 3, by Dustinslab

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Hi PlaneVuki,

I was attempting the same thing as you and found no driver for Windows 98 that worked at first. I did manage to find one. The Analog Devices Soundmax version 5.12.01.3920 works with the Compaq Evo N1020v. I found it on Driverguide. It is called sp27092.exe or q2aud02us13.exe i think. (i was messing with a lot of files, so unsure which one worked in the end. )

Grtz