Tried the Win3.1 HDA driver on Win98 but system freezes on boot (HDADRV9J)

[jesterace]

Hello,

I have a Lenovo m93p tiny with an intel 3770, triple booted Win98/WinXP/Win7. I built a mini server rack with a few lenovo tinys that do different tasks for my business. This one is for really just for trying old software and playing around. A bit of nostalgia. I know its probably way too modern really although Win98 does run fine on it along with the other two OS's. I overcome the GPU issue (no drivers for 3rd gen iGPU) by running a pci-e geforce 6 series from the mini pci-e slot. That works fine. USB is an issue with it right now as it freezes the system if I let it try and install the USB controller (so i've skipping installing drivers for that) but legacy USB works fine just for mouse and keyboard. I'm surprised this much works.

I was quite happy with that to be honest but then I read of Watler's HDA/Win3.1 driver and being able to have possibly working sound with Realtek HDA. That would be great.

I downloaded HDADRV9J, followed the steps here: 

...thinking that sound would either just work or not work. Instead, my system freezes at the desktop wallpaper in Win98 before explorer/desktop icons appear. I also see a strange graphical corruption (like a thin striped bar) at the top of screen when it freezes.

I tried the 9L driver (just moved the HDA2.dll from that into c:\windows\system instead) but got the same issue. 

From what I could find out, this tiny pc uses either ALC662 and ALC283 sound chip.

It would be great to find out if this driver has any potential to work for me. Hopefully i'm just doing something wrong.

Thanks,

James.

 

 

 

[deomsh]

Sounds difficult. 

But I can take a look if you are doing something 'wrong'.

Please upload followowing files (if available):

HDALOG.TXT, HDACFG.INI and SYSTEM.INI (from your Windows directory), CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT (from your C-drive).

Edited 6 hours ago by deomsh
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