No sound after WIN98 install

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers dixon3133!


click here and scroll down to 8308 series

Links are there for all your drivers, the manual and bios updates. You dont need a bios update unless you have a problem that has specifically been solved by the update.

[confus-ed]

Hey I was just answering that ... give me a chance

(You got 'teh greeter' job back now .. ! )

Just to explain Noo's 'brilliance' she googled this bit (as I think its often a mystery to folks how she does it)..

Matsonic MS8308E 1.0

.. but she does it so much nicer (& flipping quicker) than I do ! {hey there's no grovelling icon ! }

[dixon3133]

thanks for the advice but i got it fixed on another kool site.

[confus-ed]

thanks for the advice but i got it fixed on another kool site.

Well no doubt we are all very glad for you .. so maybe somebody there read these symptoms better than we did (which is all we can do - if many of us were 'there' we'd fix it straight off but we are only as good as you tell us, there's probably lots of other things you think are unrelated, which we never knew about which might have helped ..)

But this ain't a pissing contest ! ... a link to your solution though might be nice for other 'stuck' souls like you to find later, & I personally am always prepared to learn, so I'd just like to see what did fix it

[dixon3133]

lol, yea sure heres the site that helped http://pcpitstop.ibforums.com/index....=&#entry462576

[confus-ed]

Ta ! ... I see they told you to use aida32 instead of belerac advisor (to diagnose its 'inards' & find the s/c chipset) - I think/hope we caught onto the fact that belerac is only as good as the chipset info it has available, & that though it reports less aida can work without that info - so its 'better' .. we touched on that one in another thread the other day .. more proof !

[NooNoo]

lol, yea sure heres the site that helped http://pcpitstop.ibforums.com/index....=&#entry462576

Ironically they also linked this thread to you... so my guess is you posted here at Hawks suggestion and then worked it through there.

[confus-ed]

Ironically they also linked this thread to you... so my guess is you posted here at Hawks suggestion and then worked it through there.

One day when I'm not so confus-ed this might all make sense ... it is indeed a circular reference ! - awww hell its fixed ! that'll do !

[suicidetuna]

Here's my Belarc printout...can anyone help with sound drivers? Thanks!

Operating System System Model
Windows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222) Micron Electronics
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
233 megahertz Intel Pentium w/MMX
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Intel Corporation AN430TX AA672839-305
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp. 4A3NT0X0.05A.0019.P03 05/15/97
Drives Memory Modules c,d
110.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
104.31 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HITACHI CDR-8130 [CD-ROM drive]
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Generic IDE hard disk drive (80.00 GB) -- drive 0, No SMART Driver
Generic IDE hard disk drive (29.99 GB) -- drive 1, No SMART Driver
IOMEGA ZIP 100 [Hard drive] -- drive 255, rev 23.D 64 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot '0' has 32 MB
Slot '1' has 32 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (FAT32 on drive 0) 80.00 GB 75.34 GB free
d: (FAT32 on drive 1) 29.99 GB 28.96 GB free

Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
WORKGROUP domain logons
Charles Anderson 1/9/08 4:11:25 PM
HP LaserJet 6L PCL on LPT1:

Controllers Display
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) S3 ViRGE-DX/GX PCI (375/385) [Display adapter]
Hitachi CM751 [Monitor] (17.7"vis)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller Closed Caption Decoder
Gameport Joystick (no joystick connected)
NABTS/FEC VBI Codec
WaveTop (TM) NABTS/CC VBI Codec
YAMAHA OPL3-SAx WDM Driver

[CCT]

This site: http://ussa.supremeserver14.com/supp...7872a5a6e7daf4 covers a similar issue with those drivers:

To paraphrase them:

Go to Control Panel, System, Device Manager, Sound Video and Game Controllers. Unless you see "YAMAHA OPL-3SAx sound systems" or "YAMAHA OPL3-SAx WDM Driver" with a "?" or "!" in front of it, the driver was installed correctly.

Go to "Control Panel, Multimedia and make sure the preferred device selected for Playback is "YAMAHA OPL-3SAx Playback" or "YAMAHA Audio."

Go to volume control to adjust the sound card's volume to the max position.

[suicidetuna]

Thanks...I followed your instructions and the driver appears to be installed correctly. But under multimedia the playback function is greyed out.

[CCT]

When you reloaded 98, you did install chipset drivers FIRST?

Then video and then sound and internet stuff?

You didn't relocate the sound card? (if it's onboard I guess you didn't)

I haven't played with 98 for quite a while - try reading through this (the answers are wayyyy down at the bottom:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/M...l?qid=21038336

edit: other options I read about:

Try going into Add/Remove Programs > Windows Setup and remove Multimedia and reboot. Then return and re-install it.

or

Safe mode allows you to see old drivers and hardware so you can remove them.

If you are sure that you have the right driver, boot into safe mode instead of normal mode. Look at device manager and expand the multimedia/sound section. Look for any ghost devices and delete them altogether. You can opt to blow away all your multimedia stuff from safe mode and then reboot into normal mode. This will give you another chance to install fresh drivers with no (possibly old) conflicting drivers that you just removed from safe mode.