MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-16, 03:51:

Evening Everyone,
I have this Dell XPi that’s in really nice shape. I installed an IDE to SD adapter in it and it’s working great. But I’m really unsure how to get sound working and I’m having trouble finding the neomagic drivers in an unpacked format. I don’t have a working floppy drive in it currently so I can’t just unpack the self extracting exe for the neomagic drivers. As it specifically will only unpack to a floppy. And I have no idea what sound drivers to install. The PC speaker drivers work sort of. But give really crackly audio. Anyone mind giving some advice with this thing? Just for fun I’ve attached a picture of it running. It’s a nice little machine

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links

NeoMagic NM2090 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18688

ESS 1888 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18791

but bypass the 'write to floppy' stage, so they'll extract to either the default location of (where you copy) the archives or you can choose a different location in the 'Extract To' dialog box.

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-03-16, 05:38:

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links […]
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MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-16, 03:51:

Evening Everyone,
I have this Dell XPi that’s in really nice shape. I installed an IDE to SD adapter in it and it’s working great. But I’m really unsure how to get sound working and I’m having trouble finding the neomagic drivers in an unpacked format. I don’t have a working floppy drive in it currently so I can’t just unpack the self extracting exe for the neomagic drivers. As it specifically will only unpack to a floppy. And I have no idea what sound drivers to install. The PC speaker drivers work sort of. But give really crackly audio. Anyone mind giving some advice with this thing? Just for fun I’ve attached a picture of it running. It’s a nice little machine

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links

NeoMagic NM2090 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18688

ESS 1888 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18791

but bypass the 'write to floppy' stage, so they'll extract to either the default location of (where you copy) the archives or you can choose a different location in the 'Extract To' dialog box.

XPICDG.exe
xpisaud2.exe

When you run the self extracting archive it actually extracts another self extracting archive that has instructions on using the program to write an image to a blank floppy. Which would be fine if my floppy drive worked! At any rate you gave me an idea to just try to use the newest version of 7zip to extract that exe. And it appears to have extracted! I'm going to try to install the files I extracted and see how it goes. Thank you for all your help!

Edit: I’m up and running now. Everything looks great! Thank you!

MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-16, 11:58:

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-03-16, 05:38:

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links […]
Show full quote

MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-16, 03:51:

Evening Everyone,
I have this Dell XPi that’s in really nice shape. I installed an IDE to SD adapter in it and it’s working great. But I’m really unsure how to get sound working and I’m having trouble finding the neomagic drivers in an unpacked format. I don’t have a working floppy drive in it currently so I can’t just unpack the self extracting exe for the neomagic drivers. As it specifically will only unpack to a floppy. And I have no idea what sound drivers to install. The PC speaker drivers work sort of. But give really crackly audio. Anyone mind giving some advice with this thing? Just for fun I’ve attached a picture of it running. It’s a nice little machine

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links

NeoMagic NM2090 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18688

ESS 1888 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18791

but bypass the 'write to floppy' stage, so they'll extract to either the default location of (where you copy) the archives or you can choose a different location in the 'Extract To' dialog box.

XPICDG.exe
xpisaud2.exe

When you run the self extracting archive it actually extracts another self extracting archive that has instructions on using the program to write an image to a blank floppy. Which would be fine if my floppy drive worked! At any rate you gave me an idea to just try to use the newest version of 7zip to extract that exe. And it appears to have extracted! I'm going to try to install the files I extracted and see how it goes. Thank you for all your help!

Edit: I’m up and running now. Everything looks great! Thank you!

Glad you got it sorted - by coincidence that's exactly what I had done...downloaded the files from Dell, unpacked them (twice) with 7zip and recompressed the actual installation files as the two self-extracting attachments here 😀

MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-16, 11:58:

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-03-16, 05:38:

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links […]
Show full quote

MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-16, 03:51:

Evening Everyone,
I have this Dell XPi that’s in really nice shape. I installed an IDE to SD adapter in it and it’s working great. But I’m really unsure how to get sound working and I’m having trouble finding the neomagic drivers in an unpacked format. I don’t have a working floppy drive in it currently so I can’t just unpack the self extracting exe for the neomagic drivers. As it specifically will only unpack to a floppy. And I have no idea what sound drivers to install. The PC speaker drivers work sort of. But give really crackly audio. Anyone mind giving some advice with this thing? Just for fun I’ve attached a picture of it running. It’s a nice little machine

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links

NeoMagic NM2090 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18688

ESS 1888 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18791

but bypass the 'write to floppy' stage, so they'll extract to either the default location of (where you copy) the archives or you can choose a different location in the 'Extract To' dialog box.

XPICDG.exe
xpisaud2.exe

When you run the self extracting archive it actually extracts another self extracting archive that has instructions on using the program to write an image to a blank floppy. Which would be fine if my floppy drive worked! At any rate you gave me an idea to just try to use the newest version of 7zip to extract that exe. And it appears to have extracted! I'm going to try to install the files I extracted and see how it goes. Thank you for all your help!

Edit: I’m up and running now. Everything looks great! Thank you!

If 7Zip had not worked, a way around the problem would have been to run the floppy self extractor in a virtual machine, have it write to the emulated floppy drive and copy the files from there .

darry wrote on 2021-03-17, 08:59:

MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-16, 11:58:

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-03-16, 05:38:

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links […]
Show full quote

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links

NeoMagic NM2090 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18688

ESS 1888 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18791

but bypass the 'write to floppy' stage, so they'll extract to either the default location of (where you copy) the archives or you can choose a different location in the 'Extract To' dialog box.

XPICDG.exe
xpisaud2.exe

When you run the self extracting archive it actually extracts another self extracting archive that has instructions on using the program to write an image to a blank floppy. Which would be fine if my floppy drive worked! At any rate you gave me an idea to just try to use the newest version of 7zip to extract that exe. And it appears to have extracted! I'm going to try to install the files I extracted and see how it goes. Thank you for all your help!

Edit: I’m up and running now. Everything looks great! Thank you!

If 7Zip had not worked, a way around the problem would have been to run the floppy self extractor in a virtual machine, have it write to the emulated floppy drive and copy the files from there .

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-03-17, 08:17:

MoG91 wrote on 2021-03-16, 11:58:

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-03-16, 05:38:

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links […]
Show full quote

Try these- they're self-extracting archives based on these download links

NeoMagic NM2090 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18688

ESS 1888 - https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … driverid=r18791

but bypass the 'write to floppy' stage, so they'll extract to either the default location of (where you copy) the archives or you can choose a different location in the 'Extract To' dialog box.

XPICDG.exe
xpisaud2.exe

When you run the self extracting archive it actually extracts another self extracting archive that has instructions on using the program to write an image to a blank floppy. Which would be fine if my floppy drive worked! At any rate you gave me an idea to just try to use the newest version of 7zip to extract that exe. And it appears to have extracted! I'm going to try to install the files I extracted and see how it goes. Thank you for all your help!

Edit: I’m up and running now. Everything looks great! Thank you!

Glad you got it sorted - by coincidence that's exactly what I had done...downloaded the files from Dell, unpacked them (twice) with 7zip and recompressed the actual installation files as the two self-extracting attachments here 😀

To be honest I didn’t even try the attachments you gave. I just assumed it was the same thing as on the Dell site. I always forget how great 7Zip is though. It works for so many things. But installing the files in a virtual floppy is a pretty good idea too. I recently learned about using raw disk mode in virtual machines to install OSs so using it for something like that is a good idea too. Thanks again all! And take care,