[RESOLVED] Windows 98 SE keeps forgeting there's a sound card installed

[mighty_pirate]

I built a computer from old parts laying around (all of which were known good parts). It's a 200mhz pentium with 64meg of ram running W98 SE and I think it's an Alton motherboard (no real markings). It was working fine for several weeks. For some reason this week every time you shutdown the computer it forgets it has a 16 bit plug & play sound card. You have to go to the add new hardware wizard every time and reinstall it. It always finds it, but this is getting to be a pain. Any suggests where to look?

[mineman]

First I would try with a dif. slot and reinstall the drivers and check for the latest if any are available! Had that happen to my kids old machine and that took care of the problem.

[StevePorter]

It sounds like something's crowding it in the device settings. Try forcing the sound card to another IRQ in Device Manager. See if that stabilizes the system...

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