No Audio

[justaguy1]

I have a Dell Dimension 4400, came with XP NTFS installed. I reformatted, installed win 98SE and then XP back (both using Fat32) in 2 different partitions. Both boot up fine using the XP dual boot configuration at start up. Everything is working in XP but I can not get any sound at all in Win98. Device Manager shows the yellow question mark with the exclamation sign at "PCI Multimedia Audio Device" and Properties shows no driver installed. I have tried re-installing the needed driver from the 98 CD and also from MS, Dell, & Intel, all without any luck. This system has an Intel 845 chipset on the MB with an integrated ADI 1885 Audio (Sound Intel ICH2 Audio Device). I have even D/L the most recent version of Media Player, thinking maybe this would be a solution, but again, no luck! Also I have no Volume control in the task bar. Please help and thank you.
Ron

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Ron

[This message has been edited by justaguy1 (edited 05-11-2002).]

[mjc]

Boot into 98 safe mode and remove all the audio devices you find in device manager, then try again.

Have the drivers ready to go when you reboot (either on removable media ofr a folder on the hard drive) and point windows to that when it asks where the drivers are....

Then after they install this time go to the multimedia applet on the control panel and make sure that your sound card is there and is the selected device for both plauback and recording. Also, that is where you can set the volume control to appear in the systray.....


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mjc
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[justaguy1]

I have D/L all the files I can find from the following: Dell,Intel,Soundmax,& Microsoft, Have extracted all to their own individual Temp folders and followed instructions with each *.exe file. Still get the same message from the "Wizard" when I point it to any one of the .inf or .sys files. "Windows can not find!" I am not able to boot into "Safe Mode", my dual boot screen gives me the options but when I click on safe mode for 98 it just boots right into "Normal", Xp will boot with what ever I tell it to. I"m over my head here and really need some help.

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Ron

[Gallaeglagh]

You should be able to take care of this in normal mode. Create a directory such as C/drivers on your hard drive and put the required drivers there. Win 98 can sometimes be irritating to install drivers. But essentially there's two ways "Search for..." or "Display all..." sometimes you just need to try the other way of doing it.

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[ErnieK]

Justaguy
To boot into safe mode 98 when dual booting with XP & 98 do the following.

Boot into win98 and go to run. Type msconfig and go to the advance settings. Select enable start up menu and then reboot. When you are given the choice of OS's choose Win98. You will now be presented with the self same choices as though you had pressed F8 on a single boot Win98 OS system. Every time you boot into 98 you will always have to select from here, but a monor inconvinience when it gives you all facillities as normal.


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Ernie