Any Aureal Vortex 2 card.

Ill probably give those cards a shot, it sucks cuz i have 20 different sound blaster cards and not one of them work and its not worth crap on ebay so they might end up in the trash soon

Diamond MX300. 😀

You're not providing any indication of what has made you so upset, but I can tell you that if you're looking for DOS support for a PCI sound card, then there is no reason to expect non-Creative cards to work any better.

ok so i went for a walk to cool off, i dont care to much about dos support im just trying any card to get working on win98se and winxp ive been trying all week to find drivers for all of my cards and not one them work here is the list i have:
CT4830 Sound Blaster Live
CT4780 Sound Blaster Live (2 of them)
SB0150 Sound Blaster PCI512
SB0200 Sound Blaster Live
SB0220 Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital (i got this one to install drivers after searching the deep depth of hell for them but my computer was to slow to handle it. very laggy distorted playback)
My cpu is a 800mhz slot A Athlon with 768mb of ram
also have been trying out the vogons driver collection as well

Vortex 2 gets my vote. I've used it in so many builds and can't recommend it highly enough 😀

are the vortex 2 by turtle beach and those almost impossible to find

awesome so i tried a sound blaster pci128 that i found and also found the drivers every thing installed fine, but then it rebooted after installation and now blue screen saying corrupt vxd, i can get into safe mode and i did remove the driver but it still the same.

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by the way what is that, looks expensive?

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are the vortex 2 by turtle beach and those almost impossible to find

Any Vortex 2 card will work fine.

Just dump the noise blasters on eBay as a lot, if they sell get something nice 🤣. I honestly do not bother with anything newer than the awe 64 when it comes to creative. Ever tried Turtle Beach?

I really do like Yamaha based cards and never have any trouble from them.

I do love the yamaha sound cards very stable with dos support as well, i have one built into my dell t450.
I think I might have turtle beach card at my work, ill have to check.
also i do have a awe 64 but the pc im trying to get sound from is pci only.

So gonna completely ignore you 😜
Skip past the creative driver hell of the early 200'0s and Go for a Audigy card!
Audigy 4 is the final card to support 98 but the Audigy 2 ZS is much easier to find.

The only reason I say this is because the main alternate is a Vortex 2 based card and their drivers can be a bit funny as well.
Whatever card you do get go for something mainstream/Brand name. Something that'll most likely work with generic drivers unlike OEM stuff

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171775477852

http://www.head-fi.org/t/217531/a-simple-revi … se200-soundcard

so i was digging around at work and i found a vortex 2 and a yamaha xg

I have a SB Live 5.1 in a Pentium 3 500Mhz.
Works fine. No slowdowns.

If the PCI-Soundcard works in Dos, it depends more on the Mainboard, not on the Soundcard.

Maybe, if you do not like Soundblaster... then maybe a Terratec-one?
I also have a DMX-Xfire

I know you already said that your PC lacks an ISA slot, but that's a shame because the AWE64 is probably the best sound card for Win98SE. They're cheap. No driver hell. Win98SE has drivers built-in. Just plug it in and go. Also, excellent MS-DOS Mode support. Phil has excellent instructions on how to set this up. The only downside to the AWE64 is that it lacks EAX support, if you care about such things.

Phil loves Vortex 2 cards. He also has a list of very good reasons for preferring them over SBLive cards. I would love to try one out, but I just don't want to spend the money for one. IMO, you're gonna experience some amount of driver hell with any PCI sound card in Win98SE. Vortex 2 cards have their own issues to consider just like SBLive cards.

I'm no PCI audio card expert, but I have had very good luck with the SBLive CT4620 in Win98SE. It works extremely well with LiveWare 3 and has very good SB16 emulation. I know, you said "no Creative Labs products", but you should really consider the CT4620 if you don't want to spend cash on a Vortex 2.

i do have another build i will be working on soon its a pentium 3-s 1.4ghz 2gb of ram, dual boot win98se-xp and that board does have 1 isa slot so i might toss in the awe64 in that build.
So far im loving the yamaha sound cards i have 2 that work perfectly so far xp 98se and dos mode works with it.
If any one else is interested in the drivers as well here they are: http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/lsi/download/ if in the future thay take them down i will upload them somewhere, I have every driver.