Not with PCI sound cards like SB Live/Audigy series. Actually very few PCI cards supports MPU-401 with external synths even under pure DOS (AFAIK Aureal Vortex cards support it). ISA sound cards work under pure DOS and also in Win9x DOS sessions even with vxd drivers. Under Win XP (and if I …

First check if your selected default Midi out device is your SB Midi Out and not your SB Synth A/B (Control panel ->Multimedia->Midi). Then use a Windows based Midi player/game to test your SC-55. Windows Media Player and a Midi file is perfect for testing. This way you can make sure that your …

Hello, I am looking for some advice on getting the signal on the midi output from my pc to my sc55. My PC is a P4 running win98SE, I have a Audigy 2 zs sound card with the joystick/midi port connected. I only build the pc a few weeks ago and installed the drivers using Joseph_Joestar's guide …

Just a quick update, i installed the IDE optical drive i ordered and windows booted up with no problem. no idea why, maybe it was looking for the WIN98 CD?. anyway abit annoying but it seems to be working (for now). Thanks to every one with the reply's.

Just out of curiosity I give it one last go. i installed the patchmem.exe. Unfortunately its still hanging. you can always see what the bootlog shows, if anything. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/get-it-done-troubleshoot-your-hardware-with-windows-98-log-files-and-utilities/ That link gives you …

my bet is isn't doesn't like the ssd. If you have so many builds, than why can't you borrow known good working hardware from your other builds like a hard drive, a gpu any number of other things to try and narrow down the issue. I would advice you to patch windows ram limitation. see attachment. …

Did you install the graphics drivers first? Which is not a good idea. Ideally you want the AGP driver there first. If you did, try going to safe mode, deleting graphics in device manager, then hopefully it will start with default driver and you can reinstall. Sorry, i should of mentioned. on the …

I wonder if it needs files from the win98 setup that it can't access until it loads the USB driver, I'd dump the whole directory to local hard disk and setup from there. Thanks for the replay. I have done another install of Windows. like you said, I transferred the Win98 folder to along with the …

Hello, following Phil's Computer Lab on YouTube. I have just put together a Pentium 4 Windows 98 machine. I have installed windows 98 which seems to be running fine, until i install the Intel chipset driver 6.3.0.1007. The problem is as soon as the install finishes then the computer reboots, it goes …