Reply 8020 of 27718, by cyclone3d
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It's alive, It's alive! 😈
Swapped out the 18GB 4200RPM drive in my Sony Vaio PCG-XG29 for a 32GB SATA SSD after trimming the SSD case so it would fit in there with the IDE to SATA adapter.
Installed Windows 98SE, tried installing the AOPEN branded YMF744 drivers and got no sound.
Found the sony ftp site:
ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/
Spent a few hours combing through all the different DS-XG driver packs and finally found one or two that actually work properly with this laptop. Only the VXD drivers work properly. The WDM ones only have software buffer and no 3D with directsound.
Then I set up the real mode DOS software (initialization program) and it worked. At first I couldn't get the "Native 16-bit" sound to work, but then I disabled PnP OS in the BIOS and it came to life.
And to top the awesomeness off, they wired this sucker up with a PC-PCI/SBLink connection so it should absolutely work with whatever I throw at it in DOS.
This is one of those super giddy moments! 😀 🤣 😀 🤣 😀 🤣 😀 😀 😀 😀
Oh yeah, I also used some clear epoxy to fix the crack in the support/ventilation assembly. Looks as good as new. Can't even tell that it was ever broken unless you look very closely.
Going to have to reinstall 98SE from scratch as the testing of the many different driver versions has left a big mess. Any time I change the driver version now, I have to go to 5-6 different directories because it tries to find files from a bunch of different versions.