Hi,

I tried that download from Creative for the SB PCI 128 driver but I get a fatal exception during the install. It's complaining about VXD ctpci9x(05)

Any suggestions for how to get around this? Is there an order I need to install this in or do I need a different driver?

The file I downloaded is http://ccftp.creative.com/manualdn/Drivers/Others/257/SBPCI128Setupus_w9x.exe

Thanks for any help.

I have sound working in W98SE in Fusion 1.0 release version. It was installed under RC1 and continues to work in the released version. The file from Creatives download driver site that I used was:
Sound Blaster PCI (WDM) Drivers V 5.12.01.5017 . Sorry I don't have the direct link so you will need to search the archive at creative.com.

Thanks for the information jrd4849.

Unfortunately I only have Win98, not 98SE - that driver refuses to install on plain 98 - looks like I am out of luck

Latest installer for 98 I could find was a file called SBPCISetupus_w9x.exe and that one crashes during install.

It's a shame everything else including graphics and mouse works perfectly in plain Win98.

Message was edited by:
Yacomo2

My experience is that SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe
worked and SBPCI128Setupus_w9x.exe didn't
(crash on install as described), in
Windows 98 SE using VMware Fusion 1.0 (51348)
Evaluation version. Thank you Yacomo2 for
the hint here to use SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe.

For what it's worth, and for the record, I've just installed the SB sound drivers to my VM running Windows 98 SE in VMware Player.

The driver set that works has filename SBPCTAudioSetup_W9x.ZIP and comprised of SPCTAUDIOSetupus.exe & SPCTW9X.LIB (date 11/02/2001).

Audio had been the only thing I missed in this VM, and now it works a treat. Many thanks to the participants in this thread !

--
Ninho

Here's the link to the driver that works:

http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download2.asp?MainCategory=&Product=&dlcentric=1843&filename=SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe

Hopefully my windows 98se audio story will be enlightening.
I wanted another backup computer and just for old time sake I decided to get this old 4 gig harddrive
into this old emachine 633 . I had the oem cd and got windows ME going fine .
Then I found another computer older than that but of unknown origins .
I had never had an upgrade version of win98se and had lost my 98 computer in a fire in 2001
so I obtained this 98se cd image from the internet. I burned it into a cd. Then I took the 3 gig drive
from my next project formatted it and put it in place of the drive on the emachine.
Everything installed like a charm and the generic key worked as well but there was
one little problem: no audio.
I did all of the normal things - no results . I thought AC97 was the driver i needed. still no results.
Obviously the compatible sound driver was not on the cd.
I went back to the emachine harddrive and from device manager and sound driver details i found and copied
them on paper. They were sys and ax sound driver files and I found and copied them to a flash drive. Later, when the
install wizard on the soundless drive again asked me for the windows 98se cd I instead browsed it to the flash drive .
This allowed a few of the missing files to load - but still no sound. (Previously on a video install on a different computer
I had gotten away with skipping a lot of files)
By search-engining the problem I followed the idea of finding the card manufacturer. Since it is an on motherboard
audio system,using my main computer I obtained the intel82801aa driver. When I installed this I finally got a hint of
sound - i could hear a little static when i rolled the mouse.
Determined to see this through, I wrote the names of the still missing files on a sheet of paper and obtained them
one by one from driverguide (using my main computer) and added them to the flashdrive . Then, for good measure
I placed those and the intel driver files on the soundless desktop. Now for another reinstall to the soundless harddrive
(By the way Removing prior driver isnt enough - use add/remove icon) . Results -no change.
I had wondered about system restore and how I had never seen it on win98. And guess what , it IS there IF you want
to type it in instead of clicking to it like you do in ME. So i did a system restore back to its beginning a few days earlier .
This gave me a fresh win98 on which I could make sound the priority. But this time the audio files were still right there
on the desktop. I reinstalled the intel driver and at restart there was sound!