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I formatted the disk and did a fresh install with the /p i flag. I did not point the installer to any driver directory nor install any drivers. I ended up with the same exclamations in device manager as previous installs. The first three images are directly after the install. The second three are after I disable IRQ steering. The last 2 are the devices found with errors.
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1 hour ago, deomsh said:
Did you copy the DriverVer of Viamach.inf like I said?
Yes I did copy newer VIAmach.inf with the 6.0.00.0300. version. The above pictures are from after copying
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On 3/15/2019 at 4:06 PM, deomsh said:
No problem.
Your chipset-driver is old, my idea is first to try the last 9x one: DriverVer=6.0.00.0300. It's inside Via_HyperionPro_524A.zip. You find it on http://download.viatech.com/en/support/driversSelect.jsp > Windows > ME > chipset.
Rename your existing Viamach.inf to Viamach.inf.old. Open the zip, go to VIAMACH\DRIVER\WinMe\ and extract the new Viamach.inf. Copy the file to the folder where you found the old Viamach.inf and reboot.
If there is still no IRQ for Audio, then go to DeviceManager > Computer > Properties and upload pictures from ALL used IRQ's (three pictures will be needed!). Also one picture for PCI-Bus, tab IRQ-steering please (to see if it's the same as your earlier one).
I tried that method with both the original VIA and than BIostar drivers and still no luck. Tried again with fresh install and again no luck. I have previously tried that updated chipset driver and it does adds more specific drivers but not audio IRQ apparently. Attached is my IRQ's and PCI bus. The IRQ steering is set like that because if any of the check boxes in any combination are enabled the graphics, Ethernet, and USB will not work. If i uncheck the Use PCI steering than the audio tells me to enable it. However, the audio does not work whether it is turned on or off nor which boxes are checked
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On 3/10/2019 at 3:48 PM, deomsh said:
The IRQ should be there first in my opinion. What's the DriverVer of your Viamach.inf?
Sorry, for such the break in replying. The driver version of the Viamach.inf is 08/16/2001 5.1.00.0230 . This is the official chip set driver from what is left of the everex site
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On 3/6/2019 at 6:18 AM, deomsh said:
@bz07 In the past I used a P4M800 board, Asus P5vd2-nvm. To find drivers for Windows 9x was a big problem, but finally I succeeded with AC'97 driver (ver:A4.00) from Biostar 8267R: alc850_6240.exe
Your VEN/DEV is inside the WDM-inf's as far as I can see in my driver archive (major version only, no SUBSYS/REVisions). It's still available for download (you have to search the link with Google...). You can try if you like
BTW: better do not use the setup, but unpack the exe with 7-zip and point during Windows's driver install directly to the WDM folder .
I tried a fresh install with the alc850_6240 driver by directing windows to the WDM with no results than tried installing the driver via the setup exe and still no luck. Device manger still gives the same error
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20 hours ago, Goodmaneuver said:
@bz07, no a399 was not my suggestion, I gave a web address to the driver that I thought would work in my first post on this topic. This driver was also called wdm_a247 .
It is best to go back to a previous registry setting after installing many drivers as the reg can get large of unwanted settings. I use scanreg.ini with MaxBackupCopies=22 to give a reasonable time frame to act if an error creeps in unnoticed.
Thanks, and that's a good idea I've been doing a lot of inefficent reinstall when I begin to get frustrated with all the drivers.
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On 2/13/2019 at 6:46 PM, MrMateczko said:
You can try installing the Realtek drivers (don't be fooled by the name, it supports VIA too)
I tried at @Goodmaneuver's suggestion with the a399 version and still no luck. I later tried the A4.06 and still no luck. Both sets of drivers install but end up with the same error of being disabled in bios
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20 hours ago, schwups said:
Yes, install the Chipset drivers directly after OS. That's the normal procedure.
Sorry, wow just relized it's my first me ever installing a Chipset driver. And I installed it but still no luck with the audio. Same error.
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2 hours ago, MrMateczko said:
Can you specify the full Hardware ID of the audio card? (the PCI/VEN/DEV/SUBSYS string)
You can see it by running "hwinfo /ui" in the Run dialog box from Start menu and looking for devices with problems.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\enum\PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3059&SUBSYS_43431509&REV_60\BUS_00&DEV_11&FUNC_05
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1 hour ago, schwups said:
Did you install the chipset driver first, before you install others?
To be honest I could not tell you Iv installed and tried so many things over so many installations. Im assuming I should install the chip set drivers before anything else, correct?
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3 hours ago, schwups said:
So far I can see you didn't install the VIA 4in1 chipset driver. You have "PCI standard host cpu bridges" in your device manager. This indicates there are only standard MS drivers. The Via device name is "VIA standard host bridge". I don't believe that there is a problem with ACPI. I've a VIA P4M800 (VIAVT8237R). It isn't a laptop, but there aren't any problems.
In this installation I seemed to have forgotten to install the 4 in 1 chipset. (Iv been through alot of installations). Typically Iv found that when i install the 4 in 1 drivers it installs some type of IDE controller driver than causes the system to hang on boot until i remove the drivers via safe mode. It very well could be an error from that.
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21 hours ago, MrMateczko said:
Try to disable ACPI as noted here:
https://msfn.org/board/topic/100859-my-experience-installing-windows-98se/?do=findComment&comment=1159519Thank you but unfortunately that did not work either. Ended up with the exact same error. Maybe I will try a fresh install without ACPI
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I have an old Everex Stepnote LM7WZ laptop with an Unichrome S3 VN800 graphics card with a VT8273R plus south bridge. As you may know Everex is out of business so contacting their support is not possible and this Laptop only officially supports Windows XP. I am looking to use this laptop to run 98SE/Me for some old games and just playing around. I know this isnt ideal for gaming as I dont want to spend the money to get a graphics card for my real 98 PC. I managed to get ME installed onto the laptop and by using the XP drivers and googling I managed to get the graphics, USB, and Ethernet working. The Sound, modem, and WIFI do not work in which i don't need the modem or WIFI. However I can not get the Via AC'97 sound to work! I tried both the Windows XP drivers and ones designed for Windows 98/ME and still no luck. I keep ending up with an error about the device being disabled in bios. However, the bios is extremely limited and their is no option for any thing related to sound, modem, COM ports. However, the sound works fine under Linux, Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 as I tried them all. I am thinking there might be an issue with the IRQ steering as the error mentions it and I had to make it only enabled for ACPI in order for the Display, Ethernet, and USB to work. However, i have tried leaving it back to the defaults and all different combinations but still no luck. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions? I know Im better off giving up or buying a USB soundcard but it seems a shame that something as simple as sound will cause problems.
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51 minutes ago, Destro said:
I think you can probably just buy a new old usb scanner off of EBAY like a HP scanjet is fine. People used to use winfaxpro and that is both a server and client. But I don't know if that is still a thing.
Thanks. Yea that is a possibility but I already have an old HP Scanjet from a dumpster dive. I think you might be able to also use a picture file in the faxes not 100% sure.
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3 hours ago, jaclaz said:
No problem with speed/power, but how would you actually scan "real" (paper" documents?
An entry level but good fax/printer/photocopier (B/W, laser, NOT one of those stupid inkjets that would cost a fortune on proprietary ink) is likely to be in the US$ 200-300 range, example:
If you have some old (usually SCSI) scanner a suitable printer to revive, then it's another thing, of course.
jaclaz
Have an old HP scanner that is USB and SCSI. The Pc also has a SCSI controller I added. i just dont have the cable to connect the two. Only USB but i am conaidering a cable. Isnt there also an option to take pictures and use them instead of a scan document(i know its a thing in the win xp and 8.1 versions). We have a b/w laser print on our network I would set up. Im just to lazy to configure it in 98
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Our new insurance company requires alot of documents to be faxed between us, doctors, and them. I know it sounds ridiculous(and I agree) but it is what it is. We do not own a fax machine nor really want to purchase one. However we do own 4 old computers that have modems but 3 out of 4 use a ISA interface and the 4th(Only one that doesn't work) uses a pci modem. Our current PC does not have any ISa or PCI slots just PCI express. Eventually I plan on building a computer that will have a PCI slot but thats a different story. Would it be a doable Idea to use the best computer out of the 3(Pentium II 333mhz, 112b ram) as a fax machine using windows Fax and Scan? Would this actually work and be feasible(besides being slow as molasses)? It currently runs Windows 98 and Windows 2000.
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I was wondering if a motherboard with an embded processor would work good with Windows 98 or 9.x in general. I am refering to boards with a processor such as the celeron j800/900, n3050/n3150, amd a4-500, 16-5200 ,e-350, etc. These boards are cheap, low power, and minimal, making them seem pretty good for windows 9.x. I know they are probably too modern but it seems like a good idea. Just a thought here.
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On 5/17/2016 at 8:33 PM, Tommy said:
In my opinion, it'll probably be a bit difficult to get videos working well on that machine. But you didn't mention how high quality the video is. Anything above 640x480 will probably be choppy, HD quality would definitely not be possible. The hard drive would definitely be faster than a USB1 port. It's noticeable between 1 and 2. How maxed out are you in hardware? Are you using an OEM machine or a custom built one? What I always do is if I have spare parts around, I try upgrading the machine as best as I can. But it's hard to know exactly what steps to take since I'm not quite sure what you're dealing with here.
The videos work pretty well. The resolution is 1024 x 768 I belive.
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On 5/18/2016 at 2:05 PM, sdfox7 said:
VLC will run on those specs, I've done it in the past on Win95/NT 4.0 machines with 200MHz. You need a legacy version of VLC such as 0.8.6 which does not depend on SSE instructions. There were multiple versions of VLC 0.8.6, but I always ran into issues starting with version E so I only recommend A-D.
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/
http://sdfox7.com/win95/vlc086a.exe
http://sdfox7.com/win95/vlc086b.exe
http://sdfox7.com/win95/vlc086c.exe
http://sdfox7.com/win95/vlc086d.exeYou'll also probably need at least Direct X 6.0 but I would recommend Direct X 8.0 (DX80ENG.EXE): http://sdfox7.com/win95/DX80ENG.EXE
I installed direct x 8 and tried all the vlc you suggested but I settled on usinf windows media player and media player classic with a codec pack.
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On 5/22/2016 at 7:50 AM, Yushatak said:
I've experienced similar using 0.8.6f and running the video from the hard drive. My specs are similar (not THAT similar, but still):
300Mhz Tillamook (Mobile Pentium MMX)
512MB RAM
ATI Rage AGP 2x (8MB I think - also have a Voodoo 2 in there but I don't think that applies)
750GB ATA133 HDD (on Promise controller, so full 48-bit LBA support)
I'm going to try out one of the ones sdfox linked..
Edit: tried 0.8.6d and it didn't work any better, has a very hard time buffering and then stutters because it hasn't buffered enough to handle things. It also crashed when I turned on "Advanced Settings" in preferences with "Video Options" selected.
Edit 2: Occurs to me that the codec is pretty important for this.. I've been testing with an Xvid file. Simple MPEG plays fine (and I knew that coming into this thread), but I really wanted to just be able to play any reasonably low-res video. May really matter which codecs..
Well I installed klite coded pack 2.88 with kernel ex and the videos play great. I use windows media player and media player classic with no hiccups right off a flash drive. The only issue I found was when I tried playing a blueray rip is when the pc stuttered. that's no problem though I don't have any blueray disks nor a blueray drive nor plan to use the pc for this.
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2 hours ago, sdfox7 said:
VLC will run on those specs, I've done it in the past on Win95/NT 4.0 machines with 200MHz. You need a legacy version of VLC such as 0.8.6 which does not depend on SSE instructions. There were multiple versions of VLC 0.8.6, but I always ran into issues starting with version E so I only recommend A-D.
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/
http://sdfox7.com/win95/vlc086a.exe
http://sdfox7.com/win95/vlc086b.exe
http://sdfox7.com/win95/vlc086c.exe
http://sdfox7.com/win95/vlc086d.exeYou'll also probably need at least Direct X 6.0 but I would recommend Direct X 8.0 (DX80ENG.EXE): http://sdfox7.com/win95/DX80ENG.EXE
Yea I was using a newer vlc. I will try older. I have a copy of 1. Something ill try than try 0.8.6 if no sucess. I will also try Direct X 8
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19 hours ago, ~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~ said:
Are you running Windows 95 or 98/ME? Try installing a codec pack for Windows Media Player and have the video on the Windows hard drive! (If your computer has enough space on its hard drive) Often newer video players are "bloated" (Use up more installation memory, require more ram to open, etc!) older programs require less because they were made at a time when computers had lower specs! Obviously VLC player is NOT meant to run on a system with those specs!
TL; DR
Try using Windows Media player with a codec pack installed instead, it takes up less ram and cpu to load. And copy the video to your hard drive if possible, USB 1.0 is pretty slow...This is windows 98 se. I will try the video on the harddrive. I will also try a codec pack. Yea usb 1 is very slow
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19 hours ago, Tommy said:
In my opinion, it'll probably be a bit difficult to get videos working well on that machine. But you didn't mention how high quality the video is. Anything above 640x480 will probably be choppy, HD quality would definitely not be possible. The hard drive would definitely be faster than a USB1 port. It's noticeable between 1 and 2. How maxed out are you in hardware? Are you using an OEM machine or a custom built one? What I always do is if I have spare parts around, I try upgrading the machine as best as I can. But it's hard to know exactly what steps to take since I'm not quite sure what you're dealing with here.
I don't know what the resolution was set at. The graphics card had 4mb ram that's pretty much all I know. I will try to move a video to the harddrive to test it out. It is an oem xps d333. I have a few parts from other oems but no ram or cpu(this pc is the newest and most powerful of them)
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I was trying to run Vlc with some videos on a Pentium II 333mhz with 96 mb ram. I was running both VLC and the video off a flash drive in the usb 1.0 port. The playback was very poor the video was extrmely choppy and the audio was garbled. I tried both an avi and mp4 file with the avi giving the bad video and the mp4 not even playing. Is their any way I can maybe fix this issue and watch some videos? Would maybe having VLC onnthe hard drive be better? Maybe another video player? (The hdd is only 8gb and 6.5. are full so im limited on space)There is no reason behind doing this it is just for fun.
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Windows ME VIA AC'97 not working
in Windows 9x/ME
Posted · Edited by bz07
Only reason I disable irq steering is because it is the only way to get the other pci devices to work. Otherwise they install but do not work and have an exclamation point saying "The device is not working properly because IRQ Holder for pci steering is not working properly (Code 31.)" I click properties as it says than it says for the IRQ Holder for PCI steering "that the device is disabled because the bios didn't give it an irq request (code 29.)"And that I must enable it in bios.
I set my ide controller to no channels enabled. And yes fresh install no drivers for anything and disabled all I could and IRQ 09 seems to go to the IRQ Holder for pci steering.
Thanks for helping