Have very old Pentium II, 300mhz, 128mb ram, SoundBlaster 16. Not a major brand computer, put together 1998 buying parts. Have real copy of Win 98, Win XP is copy so cannot get updates or fixes. Now with XP I have no sound, sound card and USB contoller won't work, everything worked w/Win 98. And yeah, I know, time for a new computer but need $$ for that. anyone know what I should do?
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The only problem that you can encounter when going back from XP to 98 is Hard Drive partition type management., if you have windows xp installed on a NTFS HARDDRIVE im sorry to say but you have to re-partition your harddrive back to a FAT32 or FAT16 type.  First you have to back up ALL your WINDOWS XP DRIVERS, FILES, and SOFTWARE PROGRAMS.   Provided you have done all this things you have to BOOT from your WINDOWS 98 CD, then re-partition the hardisk (if you have NTFS installed), then format the hardrive for a clean install. With your type of computer its obvious that processor speed will be the issue when it comes to XP.  A slower based processor such as a PII 300mhz will go sluggish on you. On the other hand new software for Windows 98 will be scarce cuz it's software lifecycle has already diminished.  For example OFFICE 2003, AGE OF EMPIRES 3 wont run on windows 98.
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Under W2K/XP, right click my computer -> manage -> device driver, locate "SOUND, VIDE0 AND GAME CONTROLLERS", find your audio controller (Realtek AC97), right click -> Uninstall, Accept changes, reboot. The OS should automatically ask for drivers the next time you boot. When it does select "search for suitable update" next among the options select Microsoft Windows Update. This is the best way to repair a broken/missing/corrupt driver, permanently.
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Step 1: Checking volume and mute settings:\n\nThe volume setting for one or more sound devices might be disabled or set too low. Use the following steps to adjust volumes to their correct levels:\n\nIn Windows XP, click Start, and then click Control Panel.\nIn Windows 98 and ME, click Start, click Settings, and then click Control Panel \nIn Windows XP, open Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices, and then click Sound and Audio Devices.\nIn Windows 98 and ME, open Sounds and Multimedia, and then click the Audio tab. \nIn Windows XP, click the Advanced button under Device Volume.\nIn Windows 98 and Me, click the Volume button under Sound Playback. \nRemove all checkmarks from Mute boxes at the bottom of the Master Volume window and adjust the volume setting slide bars to their highest positions. Close the Master Volume window and test for sound. If there is still no sound, go to the next Step. \n\nStep 2: Verifying the connections:\n\nUse the following steps to verify that the sound cables are properly connected from the speaker to the computer (cable connectors and plug assignments are normally color-coded to aid with connections).\n\nUnplug the sound cable. \nPlug headphones or one speaker directly into the speaker out connector on the back of the computer. The speaker out connector may have a symbol of a speaker \nor a circle with an arrow pointing out, or it may just say "OUT" next to it. Test for sound using the computer. If sound does not work, go to "Step 3: \n\nIf sound is restored when the headphones or one speaker is plugged in, replace the original sound cable with a new sound cable and test for sound. Sound should be restored after replacing the sound cable. If sound does not come back after replacing the cable, the sound card needs to be replaced because the speaker out connector is bad.\n\nStep 3: Configuring on-board sound in the BIOS:\n\nSome computers come with sound on the motherboard (on-board), and some computers use a sound card. The on-board sound setting in the BIOS has to be set according to your particular sound configuration. Perform the following steps to correctly configure the sound in the BIOS:\n\nLook at the back of your computer and use one of the following three items to determine the proper sound configuration and sound setting: \nIf the plugs for the speakers and microphones are located next to the parallel, serial, or USB ports, then the computer has on-board sound. The on-board sound setting in the BIOS should be Enabled. If the plugs for the speakers and microphone are located away from the other ports and sit in an area by themselves, the computer has a soundcard. The on-board sound setting (if there is one) in the BIOS should be Disabled. If the computer has sound plugs in both locations, a \nsoundcard has been added to the computer that already contains on-board sound. The on-board sound setting should be Disabled. To enter the BIOS, turn on the computer and when the first screen appears, press the F1 key repeatedly until the BIOS Setup screen opens. Use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys to select the Advanced tab. Press the DOWN ARROW key to select Onboard Audio Options and press ENTER. If Onboard Audio Options is not available, select I/O Device Configuration and press ENTER. If Audio Codec is listed, select it and press ENTER. Select either Enabled or Disabled depending on your \nconfiguration and press ENTER. Press the F10 key and then press ENTER to save and exit Start Windows and check for sound. If there is still no sound, continue to the next Step.\n\nStep 4: Restoring the sound drivers\n\nUse the recovery process to restore individual drivers for a sound or combination sound-modem card. \n\nIf the computer came with recovery discs (Windows 98 and Me), place the last disc of the set into the top disc drive and follow the on-screen menus as they appear. Restart the computer after restoring the sound driver software and test for sound.\nIf there is still no sound, continue to
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The fact that you say it is a realtek sound card tells me that it is an integrated sound controller built into the motherboard..  You need to go to the motherboard makers website and download the appropriate drivers.  Their may have been a compatibility issue between the old drivers and sp2.  \n\nIf you don't know the motherboard make and model (often printed on the surface of the motherboard) you can use the bios number that is displayed on the first screen of boot up to track it down.
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Did you check the basics? \n1) after you physically installed it, did Windows detect & install the drivers?\n2) did you plug your speakers into the correct jack, Soundblaster cards are marked with color coded jacks.\nHere are some "general" color codes.\n[black=rear speakers, green=front speakers, pink=microphone, blue=line-in, yellow=digital only]\nThe PCI-128 has only 3 jacks-blue, pink & green.\n3) are your speakers pluged in to an electric outlet\nAfter, you check those things, if no luck. You can email me, if you are not comfortable with the BIOS settings. Which would be where you need to go next, if you have integrated sound on your Motherboard
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"Re: Audio Hardware not found?\nFrom: Shenan Stanley <news_helper_at_hushmail.com> \nDate: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:46:02 -0600\n\n\n*K wrote: \n> I've been getting this message "Windows Movie Maker cannot be used\n> because the required audio hardware cannot be found on your\n> computer." I have been using this program for many months and have\n> never had this problem. I have an important (at least to me) project\n> underway, and need to get it working again. What do I do>\n\n\nYou must know what sound card you have. Look on your receipt/invoice for the computer - ask the people you bought the system from, open it up and look, etc. \n\nThere are applications out there that can identify what hardware you have, but I think they all depend on a properly installed system - as I think they pull the information from the registry. Perhaps they do not - so I will recommend you try two different ones: \n\n EVEREST Home Edition \n http://www.lavalys.com/products/download.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=3 \n\n Belarc Advisor \n http://belarc.com/free_download.html \n\nOnce you know what you have, what next? Go get the latest driver for your hardware/OS from the manufacturer's web page. For example, let's say you have an NVidia chipset video card or ATI video card, perhaps a Creative Labs sound card or C-Media chipset sound card... \n\n NVidia Video Card Drivers \n http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp \n\n ATI Video Card Drivers \n http://www.atitech.com/support/driver.html \n\n Creative Labs Sound Device \n http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/ \n\n C-Media Sound Device \n http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_download_01.htm \n\nGood luck! \n\n-- \n<- Shenan ->\n-- \nThe information is provided "as is", it is suggested you research for\nyourself before you take any advice - you are the one ultimately\nresponsible for your actions/problems/solutions.   Know what you are\ngetting into before you jump in with both feet."
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After checking the plug on the back of your pc and making sure the speakers are connected properly do the following:\n\nRight click "my computer" click properties, go to the hardware tab and click "device manager"\n\nUnder the heading "sound, video, and game controllers" do you see any yellow bangs or errors?  If you don't then your sound device is fine and you should check your sound settings in the control panel.  Something may be muted or turned too low.\n\nIf there are errors then it means the sound driver is corrupted or needs to be replaced.  You need an updated driver.  Go to the website of the manufacturer of your pc or motherboard and look in support for a sound driver.  Sound drivers usually come in an installable package that makes it easy to install.\n\nIf you still have problems you could have a damaged and corrupted file, sound card, or some type of incompatibility issue.  At that point post another question with more details about your machine and we'll see if we can help you some more. :)
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Sounds like you have a driver problem. You may have to uninstall your drivers, or right-click My Computer > Device Manager, and scroll to your Sounds heading. Double-click that, and click on Update Driver. Before that, you can go to pcdrivers.com and search for the right driver for your sound card (you'll have to know the make/model of your sound card). Then, download it to your PC (I usually just d/l it to C:....you can put it where you want). When you update the driver, point it to the one you downloaded. That's all I can think of.....\n\nOne other thought, if you have an install CD or other source of existing driver, you might be able just to uninstall it then reinstall it. Sometimes that works, though you might have to physically remove the sound card and restart to totally uninstall it. Then, reinstall the sound card and let windows find it as "New Hardware." It will tell you then what it wants.
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go to the device manager and see if the  sound card is there if it is remove it and click add new hardware and setit up again if the problems insiste install it again on the board .\ngo to the  safe mode and remoe all the cards (i know it so hard operations but it is good ) \nand go back to windows and search for new hardware in win98 \nand set up the sound card again ( be sure the software in the CD is the sound card's software) \nif the probelems insists and the sound card is found in device manger and no sigen on it (!,?) these mean that u need to replace it .
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Is your sound board OK? Can you hear other sounds like the Windows startup sound? If not, you need special drivers to make your sound board work
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Others have suggested compatibility mode.  Clearly they have never actually tried to get older software to run under XP.  Or they have and it worked, however, in my case, it has not.  Every single piece of software I have from the Windows 95/98 days WILL NOT run under XP, even under compatibility mode.  All compatibility mode does is try to fool the program by reporting XP as Windows 95 or 98, the reason this doesn't work so well is that some of the older programs are looking for DOS components which are not present in WIndows XP.  Sorry to say that most likely your older software will not run under Windows XP.  Either buy a newer version of the same program, find a freeware substitute or... just cut your losses and move on (in the case of games that's what you'll have to do).\n\nThe other option is to partition your hard drive (or get a second hard drive) and install Windows 98 itself and boot into it only when you need to use whatever program will not run under XP.\n\nAnd to Na, you will have to install the Windows XP drivers for your sound card, no doubt they exist.  Sometimes you'll get lucky and Windows update will pick up the driver for you or find your driver restore disc, sometimes Windows XP can make use of a Windows 98/ME driver.
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Dawn of Pentium, mid-90s, era computer cost practically nothing. You just gotta find one. Second hand shops wouldn't bother with hardware that old. Best bet is maybe somebody who still has one laying around in the attic, or at yardsales.\n\nGood luck! An older computer with DOS really is a valuable learning tool. A much simpler and more comfortable environment to mess around with debug and the inner workings of a computer, without risking anything.
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Dear friend just reinstall your sound card with proper driver..\nit will be alright.\n\nIf you have onboad sound card then insert your mothr board original cd and from device manager click audio controller then click update driver and set the location to cd rom\n\nit will work\n\ntry it ... \nif it works then select my anser as best\n\nor if you need further assistance just mail me\n\nthe1zia@yahoo.com
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clueless.    You might see if the sound is actually going to run, http://pclinuxos.com will boot, in the CDrom, will make the sound work, unless the board is destroyed (unlikely). \n\nI don't do creative...  you might reload it, after the proof test...
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U can find sound card drivers in recovery CD.  In case u are using Windows XP edition, most of the audio drivers are built in the OS.  \n\nIn current products vendors are not distributing drivers CD's, they are keeping all drivers, OS in Eprom. Example IBM think pads they stopped shipping recovery CD.  In the machine u can find "ACCESSES IBM" if u click while booting it will goes to recovery mode and ask repair option, it loads all drivers into ur machine.  \n\nCheck up with ur vendor.
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check cables, check overall volume on pc, and for creative labs for example there is a sound mixer with volume labels for different types of inputs\n\nStill not working?  Check for switch on speakers, are they plugged in\n\nStill not working? Bring up control panel -> sounds -> check mute button, check volume, click on a sound  like asterisk, hit play still no sound?\n\nFind a geek...
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you got a tough row to hoe trying to get 95 and xp to work together, it is hard enough with 98 and xp. if you look around you might find some sort of software that will hook them up, but tried once or twice and gave it up. I just ugrade the 95 to 98 and get it going