I recently formatted my HD and reinstalled Win98. For some reason, I can’t get my speakers to work. I tried going through the “Add New Hardware”, it recognizes that I have a sound card but no driver (little exclamation mark on the picture). I formatted before without this problem. The little speaker icon isn’t even on my taskbar. It should be a plug and play device but it’s just not happening. Any help?
-Morgan
Did you add the sound card to the computer, or did it come pre-installed?
If you added it, where did you get the driver? Did it come with the card?
First, try deleting the device from the control panel (or device manager, or whatever it’s called), and reboot. Windows will detect the “new” hardware and attempt to install drivers. If it works, fine. If not, you’ll have to find out what sound card you have and download drivers for it. Once you download and uncompress the driver files, delete the device again and reboot. This time when Windows looks for the driver, tell it the path for the driver you just downloaded.
I HAD TO DO WHAT SCR4 SAID ONE TIME AND IT WORKED.
(tho it was for the VIDEO card i installed)
OK, I did that and it asks for the driver. So far so good. I looked at the card and it doesn’t have a brand name on it! It has a curvy “CE” on it. It also has one port for a game joystick, and three slots. One for a mic, one for speaker out, and one for in. Anybody familiar with it?
Is it a brand-name PC with a model number? If not then you will probably have to open up the case and find more distinctive information on the card itself.
If windows offers a “search for compatible drivers” option, use it and select something that looks like “SB 16” - all modern sound cards can use it (I think). Otherwise, you get to hunt for a specific driver.
Hint: OS and driver files should be placed in a paper (non-conducting) envelop and sealed inside the case - that way you don’t go through this.