SoundMax Integrated - driver won't properly install

[confus-ed]

NooNoo, thanks for your help. Is there a known issue between WinMe and 'wdm' drivers?

And do you know where I can get the 98 vxd set? I'd be willing to give that a try.

98SE & ME use 'wdm' sytle drivers (windows direct media) stuff before that uses vdx (Virtual eXtended Device), WDM is kind of 'middleware' & doesn't directly address hardware, VDXs deal directly with the device ... The WDM model is 'iffy' for all 9x windows installs & only 'works' really 'good' with NTFS systems like w2k or xp, theres a great long technical explanation to do with resource arbitration, which is too tedious even for me to explain

As far as IBM seem to be concerned they expect the 98 drivers to be WDM too, very touching too, I'm sure such faith in Uncle Bill ... however I'm none so trusting so the 95 drivers are what we want, which are definately vxd style, they'll be on the IBM site somewhere ....

[ziffel]

98SE & ME use 'wdm' sytle drivers (windows direct media) stuff before that uses vdx (Virtual eXtended Device), WDM is kind of 'middleware' & doesn't directly address hardware, VDXs deal directly with the device ... The WDM model is 'iffy' for all 9x windows installs & only 'works' really 'good' with NTFS systems like w2k or xp, theres a great long technical explanation to do with resource arbitration, which is too tedious even for me to explain

As far as IBM seem to be concerned they expect the 98 drivers to be WDM too, very touching too, I'm sure such faith in Uncle Bill ... however I'm none so trusting so the 95 drivers are what we want, which are definately vxd style, they'll be on the IBM site somewhere ....

Thanks Daffy, and Confus-ed for the info. I'll see if I can find the older drivers and give those a try.

[mikeydry]

I was also trying to repair a failed sounddriver on a computer running XP PRO.
Didn't matter how many times I re-installed it refused to recognise any drivers.

I did have success with this site below and we are up and running.

good luck

http://www.short-media.com/download.php?d=251

[KSinghV]

I am having similar problems with my sound max drivers. I have onboard sound max audio, but after a reformat its stopped working. the drivers from mikey almost worked, i needed those files and my computer asked for others which i downloaded from http://ftp.delta-v.org/drivers/ittdr...MAXWDM/W2K_XP/ , but for some reason out of the 6 "sound, video, and game controllers" i installed one still doesnt work. i cant seem to get the "multimedia audio controller" to work properly. I think it has to do with a file smsens.sys which i downloaded from the above website....im on win XP by the way.

[mikeydry]

When I loaded the driver windows did ask for "smsens.sys" i did a search of the c drive and found it in several folders. Eventualy it grabbed one of them and away we went..