Audio hang

[hgnoel1980]

I'm running 98se and am having a problem with Windows hanging when playing audio.

The sound is a onboard Soundstorm with my Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. I'm running it

with nVidia's 4.27 drivers, I'm assuming the problems is sound related as the system appears stable

until I run games, foobar, media player etc...

The system hangs to a completely black screen, or a frozen screen with a black bar across the top

and the hard disk activity light is permently on. I am unable to use anything and have to reboot.

Anyone else experience this and what are the possible solutions.

Cheers,

Harry

Windows 98se English

AMD 2500+

Asus A7N8X Deluxe

512 RAM

2x80GB SATA Drives (Silicon Image 1.0050 Drivers for Sil3112a)

Geforce FX5200 (56.55 MSI Drivers)

DirectX 9.0c Aug2005

[MDGx]

Try:

- current drivers for your Soundstorm card.

- current drivers for your mobo chipset + sound chip.

- as an alternative [or if u already tried all of the above], try installing 98SE2ME option 2:

http://www.msfn.org/board/?showtopic=46349

but make sure you allow it to create a backup first.

The backup will be created in C:\W98SEOLD , and u can always restore from there, either the full OS by running C:\9!M\98RESTOR.BAT , or file by file if u wish by copying 1 file at a time back to original location [certain files won't allow to be replaced unless u boot to native MS-DOS first].

98SE2ME READ1ST.TXT:

http://www.mdgx.com/9s2m/READ1ST.TXT

has all necessary details on how to do all this.

Or u can exit 98SE2ME without installing anything [press N at the main batch screen], and then modify C:\9!M\E0!X.BAT [cut + paste in Notepad] and then run it by itself to install only the *.SYS files in %windir%\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS , if u don't want to install the entire 98SE2ME [over 700 system files from WinME].

Note that some of the newer SYS files are located in C:\9!M .

Full list of files in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers [scroll down to respective directory]:

http://www.mdgx.com/98-5.htm#FME

PS:

98SE2ME needs either a WinME setup CD or all WinME CAB files in the same directory, located on any of your local fixed/removable drives/partitions.

Hope this helps.

[Andromeda43]

I've run into several problems, like playing music CD's with 98/SE.

1. Media Player 7.1 is the last one that "fits" windows 98/SE. Anything newer (and much larger) can easily overload the CPU and ram. MP 9 is very problematical and MP-10 is a total disaster.

2. Other running programs can cause Media Player to hang, skip and in general FAIL.

If you want to play games or play CD's, shut down all other programs that might be running.

Good Luck and Happy Holidays,

Andromeda43