So far all I have found is this: https://web.archive.org/web/19971007071432fw_ … t/NT4.0FAQ.html

Not super helpful, there is a FAQ for setting up under Win95 but not the same as NT I believe. https://web.archive.org/web/19971007071416/ht … rt/win95faq.htm

I have 2 Prostudio cards but never tried them under NT4.

Grem Five wrote on 2025-07-16, 18:28:

So far all I have found is this: https://web.archive.org/web/19971007071432fw_ … t/NT4.0FAQ.html

I use archive.org for all kinds of retro computer related things that are long since broken and offline and I have no idea why it never occurred to me to try and search the Media Vision website from the 90s to find this article. Regardless, thank you for the reference. This was information I needed to get the SCSI card working.

In case something happens to the archive.org link before anyone in the future needs that information, the steps I took to get the SCSI controller working are:

On a separate computer, format a floppy disk and copy the entire contents from "drvlib\storage\retired\x86\" folder on the Windows NT 4.0 Workstation CD to the root of the formatted floppy disk.

Back on the Windows NT 4.0 Workstation machine, open Control Panel -> SCSI Adapters -> Drivers tab -> Add button -> Have Disk button -> A:\

From there, select the "Trantor MediaVision" SCSI adapter. After it finishes installing the drivers, it asks to reboot the computer. Upon reboot and logging back in, my external SCSI CD-ROM immediately showed up and the SCSI controller was functional.

As for the sound card, now that I had a functional CD-ROM connected to my Windows NT 4.0 Workstation machine, I was able to go into Control Panel -> Multimedia -> Devices tab -> Add button

From there, select the "Media Vision ProAudio Spectrum 16" option and hit the OK button. It will ask you for where it can find the "mvaudio.dll" file to which I pointed it at my Windows NT 4.0 Workstation CD path "E:\i386\" (obviously your CD-ROM drive letter will vary). Same as with the SCSI controller, upon reboot and logging back in, I heard the Windows NT Logon Sound wave file play, something I hadn't probably heard in at least 20 years.

Again, thanks so much for saving my sanity and time on this one.

hax0rwax0r wrote on 2025-07-16, 23:38:

Again, thanks so much for saving my sanity and time on this one.

No problem, out of curiosity what type of computer is this on?

Grem Five wrote on Yesterday, 01:19:

No problem, out of curiosity what type of computer is this on?

I am running it in a NEC Ready 425 that was upgraded with an Intel 486 DX2 66MHz OverDrive. I have a few industrial CF cards I'm swapping out as the storage drive so I can play around with various OSes. Windows NT 4.0 might be a bit ambitious for a 66 MHz 486 CPU, especially with only 20 MB RAM (64 MB on order from eBay), but it's just a time and money sink to spend my evenings tinkering.

The computer itself is an eBay find that was the same make and model as our first family computer from back in 1992 so it had some nostalgia tied to it, though, our original one only had the stock 486 SX 25 MHz, 4 MB RAM, no sound card and no CD-ROM back then. I remember I got a sound card and CD-ROM bundle kit from Creative for my birthday in 1994 and had to return it because the case's 5.25" floppy bay was only what they call a 1/3 height drive bay and wouldn't accept the CD-ROM.

I had to google NEC Ready 425 info.. looks like a nice machine.

I have a dx2-66 running nt4. It's not bad at all