The Youtube link has a driver package which includes the VIA audio plus one comment about how they got the USB to work. Did you try those ?

Yes I did, its exactly same files.

Do you have your input devices in legacy mode via bios? At least use a PS/2 keyboard if available.
I'm not sure if James and Phil are using the exact same driver packages. The Phil package includes additional USB drivers. I think I used both packages during the installation. A device remains unknown in Device Manager, but this has no effect. (PCI Bridge). Edit: I'm pretty sure I only used the VIA 4.35 package. I'm not sure about the USB drivers. Also, "Software" tells me I'm using NUSB v3.6.

I've also done the installation without an external floppy or CD-ROM. I had problems with Easy2boot, I couldn't use the Windows 98 start disk. It only worked with a DOS 6.22 boot disk.

There are more inquiries about the T5710, so we really have to collect all the information. On occasion we should compare all the drivers (versions) used.

I dont understand why is the audio setup is not detecting the sound HW. Its enabled in bios.

I manually removed the usb drivers by plugging in a ps2 mouse and somehow after restart and automatic driver install now usb ports are working.

But sound card still no go.

It might be broken. You could also test the AC97 sound under DOS with SBEMU. If it works there, the error can only be in Windows 98.

Or there was an error during installation. Windows 98 likes to cause driver problems. Incidentally, I'm also about to do a complete reinstallation, I only found 2GB of flash at the time, but I'd like 4GB. So everything from scratch, and yes, the installation is really bad.

Pls make screenshots of you BIOS settings and Windows device manager.

Try to setup sound card in PURE DOS prompt before loading Win98 with VIASBCFG

VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.12d)

ok, so the sound driver package has a folder called drivers within and there are 4 different folders within for different operating systems. There wasnt one for win98 but I tried the ME and at first it gave me errors but after few tries it accepted the driver and I am now getting the sound.

Its strange as I still cant install the driver package even though its telling me the sound is installed and working, I thought there might be some apps that come with the sound driver package but anyways, its working for now.

I am finding the 4GB IDE flash drive too small now to hold games and realised there is no secondary port on the board to connect any other drive so I decided to get a 44pin to CF flash adapter and will use a 64GB SD-CF card in it so whole thing will need to be reinstalled.

and yes, I also had issues with easyboot but I have a USB floppy drive which I connected to the machine and booted with MS DOS disks and created a 2GB partition, formatted it and then I used easy boot to load the win98 boot disk image (btw I had to try 3 different images to get it to boot) and then copied the win98 folder across. Was the only way to get C drive appear correctly as when booting from esayboot it would default the internal IDE flash drive to D not C . once I booted with DOS again, I could see my win98 folder on the c drive and installed the OS no issues.

Babasha wrote on 2023-04-30, 10:03:

Pls make screenshots of you BIOS settings and Windows device manager.

I will take this later in the week as I packed up the setup for now ...