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@deomsh: Thanks for the info! So what worked for me was setting MaxFileCache=512000. After doing that, every single thing works perfectly.

Update: I managed to reproduce this buggy audio behavior in a different setting: I re-installed Win98 and only the sound driver. The sound was working perfectly. But after that I modified the MaxPhysPage setting in system.ini to 20000. After restarting, I saw the same kind of buggy audio behavior as I detailed in the first post. Maybe that'll give some insight?

@deomsh: Ah sorry I mistyped! I've changed the title and post to correct the typo. Regarding the link you posted, I checked it out and downloaded "Audio: QFE Update [269601USA8.EXE]". I ran that on the optiplex but see no change - the audio issues are still there

Hi all! I have a Dell Optiplex GX260 with me. Clean installed Win98 SE on it, then installed the sound driver (Analog Devices ADI 198x Integrated Audio, v.5.12.01.3508, A03). With no video driver installed, audio works perfectly in all respects. But as soon as I installed the video driver (Intel 845 G/GL Integrated Video, v. 4.13.01.3084, A00), the sound started showing these behaviors: Important: Startup sound no longer plays The navigation sounds in the explorer ("tick" sounds when double clicking folders), the error sounds and all play just fine .wav files play fine (in mplayer2) when I double click on them in the file explorer Important: When I go to Control Panel -> Sounds, and I try to preview the various sounds, the sounds play alright if they're really short (like "Start Navigation" or "Empty Recycle Bin" events). But for longer sounds ("Default Sound" or "Chord" or "Start Windows" events) I get the Error: "Windows cannot play the (path).wav file. The file may be damaged or may use an unrecognized compression format." Or sometimes I get the error: "Windows cannot play the (path).wav file. It may be damaged or may not be a valid sound file" Some more info which may or may not be relevant The computer has 1 Gb RAM (in My Computer properties it shows 1022 Mb RAM) In dxdiag it shows that the sound card of your system doesn't support hardware accelerated sound Can anyone please help me to get the sound back to normal behavior, like it is in a normal, properly functioning Win98 installation? Thanks!

Hi all! I have a Dell Latitude D830 and I installed Windows 98 SE on it. I used this thread for audio driver installation this post to edit the SYSTEM.INI and SYSTEM.CB files this driver for video nusb36e for USB drivers Additionally, I've installed Win98 Plus and DirectX 9.0c (this one probably won't be of use but I did it anyway). Now the issue is, sometimes I get Windows Runtime Error 202 and the laptop crashes. Earlier the laptop would crash when I tried to change the Plus! theme. Then I edited MinFileCache from 2048 to 16384, after which at least I could change the theme without crashing. BUT the laptop still crashes whenever I try to install something or even change the keyboard repeat rate in Control Panel -> Keyboard settings. The error is something like "Windows runtime error 202 at 0003:020E" (I'm not sure if the 0003:020E bit is the same everytime). Another important thing: sometimes (rarely) when I boot into Win98 SE, the USB driver and audio driver aren't functioning - in those cases the crashes don't happen while installing a program. So I guess the drivers are causing the issue? Could I please get some help on how I can fix this? Do I need to change some system configuration files? Or install something else? etc. Would appreciate any help.