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Realtek ALC888 driver

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First post, by FrankDM

Posted on 2019-12-29, 10:45

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I am trying to get winME running on a gigabyte ga-ma69vm-s2 motherboard. This thing was made around the time of vista and only has driver support for xp and vista. Not for 9x. It uses the Realtek ALC888 chip. I don't find any official WinME (or Win98) driver for this so I was wondering if there is any way to get sound working while using the onboard sound.

Reply 1 of 5, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2019-12-29, 10:55

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Out of curiosity, I've tried using the Realtek AC97 drivers with no success. Pretty sure it's a non starter.

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Reply 2 of 5, by leileilol

Posted on 2019-12-29, 11:07

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ALC888's an "HD Audio" chip so it's far beyond AC'97 help. At that point you might as well jam in a decent PCI video card and a crappy PCI sound card, or re-assess your perspective of hardware for making a Win9x system. Win9x support in new hardware was well dead by 2008....

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Reply 3 of 5, by FrankDM

Posted on 2019-12-29, 11:13

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leileilol wrote on 2019-12-29, 11:07:

ALC888's an "HD Audio" chip so it's far beyond AC'97 help. At that point you might as well jam in a decent PCI video card and a crappy PCI sound card, or re-assess your perspective of hardware for making a Win9x system. Win9x support in new hardware was well dead by 2008....

I tried AC'97 (different versions), does not work. I know I could put in a soundcard (if I had any) but was hoping to keep it simple. The system is intended for a multiboot ME/XP. Got all the drivers I need for XP but ME is a lot harder. I guess there is no way to get "Realtek HD Audio" working on 9x...

Reply 4 of 5, by jtchip

Posted on 2019-12-31, 00:40

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This person got "HD Audio" to work by using a Windows 3.1 driver: https://msfn.org/board/topic/178295-audio-dri … comment-1161697
I've only skimmed the thread, it does seem to be rather fiddly to install.

Reply 5 of 5, by texterted

Posted on 2019-12-31, 00:54

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The Asus A8V has some sort of ALC chip, maybe an 850 though? Maybe worth a shot trying it?

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