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Incredible! The driver above worked! Thanks for your input. Now that i have the Blaster working, this opened up a whole new set of issues. When i installed the Blaster pci card into the mobo, i now have Primary and Secondary IDE Controller (dual Fifo) issues. Geesh, if its not one thing, another can of worms opens. If i remove the Blaster PCI sound card, then the Dual Fifo in device manager goes away on reboot. I have moved the Blaster to different PCI slots and that didnt fix the fifo issue. This may beyond the scope of the users in this forum, so i will use google and see what the heck this dual fifo is now. Interesting as well, if i boot in SAFE MODE with the Blaster still installed and then go to Device Manager, everything is fine, the dual fifo errors are gone, so there's something strange going on here on a normal boot. All mobo drivers (Abit Kv-7) are installed and updated. I dont know if a reinstall of 98SE might help or not, now that i have the Blaster situation figured out. Fun times.

Everest Home Ed: Device ID 1102-0002 If that's of anymore help. The software finds the Blaster easily listed, an EMU10K1 porcessor etc, etc, etc,. I guess its still a particular driver issue at this point, as no matter what driver i have tried thus far, i keep coming back to the same message. ""Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device, if you dont want to install a driver now, click Next. To search again, click Back"

Quick google, this appears to point to the onboard Realtek AC97?????? Maybe i looked in the wrong area. The sound card is a Sound Blaster Live Value, CT4830 ( Sound Blaster Live! by Compaq, Intel, IBM and NEC.). Ive tried a few variants that claim to be the Compaq, IBM NEC drivers, but still to no avail. The card is found under the device manager, but installing any variant of creative drivers, i get the following message: "Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device, if you dont want to install a driver now, click Next. To search again, click Back"

Thanks for the step-by-step concrete instructions. I found the "PCI Multimedia Card" subset. Within that folder, under Hardware ID I see: "PCI/VEN_1106&DEV_3059"....followed by a bunch of other numbers and symbols. Im not sure if this is helpful or not?? If there's any other info i can try to provide, please let me know.

Building a nice little retro PC for some vintage DOS gaming. I have what appears to be a Sound Blaster Live (Value?) non 5.1 card. Every time i install some iteration of W98SE drivers, I get "Set up can not find hardware installed on your computer" (or something to that extent). The Sound Blaster is identified in the Control Panel as being a PCI Multimedia Card with the little exclamation mark. Anyhow, i have tried a dozen or more drivers, i know its been covered on the web with Creative having horrible drivers and what not, but i cant understand why the OS always aborts the install of any driver i try. My only thought is that it is perhaps an OEM version of this card? I would take a guess that it might be a DELL?? Again, just guessing. Therefore, do i need to find an OEM driver that supports it? Shoot me any thoughts or driver links you may have. The card worked wonderfully under XP, so i know its not a dude. Just needing an appropriate working set of drivers at this point.