Sound card change

I have a pentum 200 with windows 98 SE. What is the best way to install a new sound card? Should I go into soft mode and deleate all the sound drivers in device manager then install the new board and its drivers I got with the board?
I have the same prob. that the person with no sound has. It has happened before. The sound just dissapears.

Thanks
Don

 

I don't know about safe mode.
I wouold just go into windows, normal, and control panel, system, and delete to sound card. Then shut down and remove the card.
Install the new card. Windows should see the new card and ask for drivers.

 

Still working on the no sound prob. I come up with a added prob.
Trying to reload the drivers I must have done something wrong or it just happened. I rebooted, got to where the icons were comming up on the desk top and all of a sudden I get this message on a blue screen.

A FATAL EXCEPTION OE HAS OCCURED AT 0028:FF0894AB IN VXD CMAUDIO(03) +00015EEB. THE CURRENT APPLICATION WILL BE TERMINATED.

The above happens every time I try to boot up. A friend said I probbely got a bad sound board. Pull the old one out and reboot. I did and wala I booted up.
I put the board back in and got the same error message. I then put a new sound board in and got the same error message.

HELP

 

It may not be a bad sound board as a corrupt driver or software attempting to access the card.

I would use the System Configuration Utility to go through the startup programs and see if one of those are doing it.

 

Hi Micheal
I am not sure how to get to System Configeration Utilitey.
Guide me please.

The new board does the same thing as the old board.

Don

 

Ouch.

Well almost a month later. I have all but bought a new sound card for my Win98 SE 2nd cpu...none of the aureal drivers work and none of the MS drivers work.

I was going to use this 2nd cpu solely for recoring music tracks via cakewalk, editing, and burning to CD. Ironic that I cannot get the sound card to operate at all me thinks.

Good luck. Please post any solutions to these continuing sound problems.

Thanks.

AW

 

Click start and Run
type Msconfig.exe
click OK

Click the startup tab

Here you can uncheck files you don't want to load on startup.
Pretty much remove a few, restart. if it fixes it then you know it is one of the ones you disabled. You can enable a some until you get the error again.

 

First, i would delete any referance to the sound card, and uninstall it and sound software in windows. Turn compuer off, remove soundcard, reboot for awhile, turn computer off, reinstall card in different slot if possible, and hope windows recognizes it, and install the drivers. Sounds like either bad driver or bad install of driver. Hopefully, it's not a windows software glitch, but if it is, a simple reinstall of the os(not a clean format install, just reinstall windows over itself, might fix that.

 

Augustwest...i don't think we ever really figured out which soundchip you had. Have you opened the case? It may have a name on the motherboard. Maybe if you told us the make, model number, motherboard make, etc of your computer, we could track it down for sure, and start from there.

 

I took some things (almost all) out of the system config. utlys. Well that did not work. I still got the blue screes.
I decieded to try something else and that is. Go to file find and look for CMAUDIO using the file find text part. I found quite a few CMAUDIO ini, inf & so forth. I copied and pasted a few to floppy then deleated them. Not all that said CMAUDIO. Rebooted and wala no blue screen. NOW HERE IS THE REST OF IT. WHEN I LOG OFF I GET THE BLUE SCREEN.
Maby I need to get rid of the rest of the cmaudio file in file find. I will try then let you know if it works.

Discrunted PC user.

Don

 

Yepee
I got rid of the rest of the CMAUDIO files and such in the file find. I backed them up just in case. Restarted then: then rebooted and what did I get? NO BLUE SCREEN vital exception.
It was fixed. Now still no sound. I blew away all the sound drivers by using the drivers unstaller. Put in new sound card with new driver cd and walaa: SOUND with now blue screen.

HAPPY P C'er