VMware – Configure Sound in Microsoft Windows 98

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1. Thank you very much! This solution worked!

2. thanks.. solution worked, but when I try to use direct x sound (such as games), the sound is still muted, any suggestion?

3. I love the Internet

4. results at your fingertips

5. works fine with vmware 6. thank you!

6. Thanks great tip!

7. Been on this problem for a good 5 hrs… This page should be a google exclusive, took me awhile to find it. Shouldn’t have seen the smile on my face when I heard sounds on Win98 on vmware.

   Thanks for taking the time to post this.

   Cheers,
   Gerry

8. Thanks! It works all right.
   Siilk

9. thanks for this, works great

10. Nice! I saved my really old music-studio computer to vmware and this solution worked great for me, thanks!

11. Thank you for this great problem-solver.

12. Works perfectly – thank you

13. Did anyone got the message the the installation file is not for Win 98?

14. In one word: PERFECT!!

    Is true, it must be Google eXclusive.
    No time to found it and it works perfect!!!
    Thanks again!!!!!

    Bye, MerolaC

15. Hi there,

    at the begiining of the SB driver installation I get the error message “…no Soundblaster audio device found…” and it stops. The device manager shows the SB16 or compatible device. Is there an idea how to spve that issue?

16. Hi Jens,

    Is this the error message which occurs?
    “Setup could not detect any Sound Blaster Audio on your system”

    Depending on your installation and preference settings. Go to default folder for this Windows 98 virtual machine is C:\Documents and Settings\\My Documents\My Virtual Machines\Windows 98.

    Open up Windows 98.vmx file with notepad. See if you have sound.virtualDev = “sb16”. If you see this line, try removing it to see if it helps. My .vmx file only contains the following lines for sound.

    sound.present = “TRUE”
    sound.fileName = “-1”
    sound.autodetect = “TRUE”

    Hope it helps.

17. thanks coppermine fixed me right up here. damn i spent 3 hours searching and trying drivers then i found you lol. sound i got now.

18. Hey coppermine! My Win98 sounds horrible,like “rusty” or something,the sounds cuts and goes incredibly fast,but I did all you said.Im installing windows 98 SE.

19. @ coppermine;

    Great! sound works. Thank you!

20. I have a Windows 98 under VMware and when I try to install SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe it tell me the OS is incompatible and thjat I have to upgrade toward Windows 98 Second Edition.

    So, is there a way to have audio under Windows 98 (first edition) ?

21. Well, I’ve finally used another way, a lot easier :

    1) just download this tiny file (32KB) : ftp://vieuxpc.homeftp.net/BI440ZX_ES1373_Creative_Audio.zip

    2) extract its content in a directory

    3) Select this directory when Windows ask for a location for audio driver

    Solved !

22. Error

    Your verson of windows operating system is not supported by this product. Please upgrade to windows 98 Second Edition or later Versions before resuming installation.

23. Hi Eanon and Mike,

    I’ve created the guide for the Microsoft Windows 98 (First Edition)

    http://www.techbug.com/en/?p=318

24. Thanks, you rock.

25. God bless you man!
    I was tired of searching for this driver. I`ve installed others that simple don`t worked with Win98. Thank you a lot!

26. You are the man.

27. MAN, YOURE A GOD.

    THANK-YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

28. KISS, KISS, thank you
    perfecto funciono facil, gracias

29. Thank you so much. I wasted so much time trying to get one set of drivers after another to work and even tried writing my own damned .inf file to get sound. I owe you many beers.

30. YAAAAAAAAAAAY SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

31. YAAAAAAAAAAAY SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

32. THANKS A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! IT’S A BLESSING! SOUND 100% AVAILABLE ON WINDOWS 98 SE RUNNING UNDER VMWARE 7!!

33. yeehaa

    it works

    thanks

34. Nice. I missed the intro music from Windows 98.

35. Very usefull and very clear.
    Thank you!

36. Thanks a lot! You’re the first site I found that
    a) has the actual files
    b) is win98-IE compatible 🙂

    Great work!

37. Thanks you very much. It works fine. 🙂

38. I placed your drivers in Windows’98 in workstation 6 working under windows 7 home edition.
    It works fantastic.
    I want to thank you for the good work, from Holland

39. Thanx, installed 95 98 me 2000 and mac os leopard, no sound in win 98 was the only thing i couldnt get working for days, the joy when the sound finally played on start up, a millions thanx.

40. MAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN !!!!!!!

    Worked great !!!!

    Thanks !!!!!!!!!

41. Thank you so much! It works just GREAT! Perfect, man!

42. Thank you very much!
    Thank you very much!

43. The link for eapci8m.ecw is not working, but I found this other one working fine: ftp://66.226.255.218//Motherboard%20Drivers/CA810e/Audio/EAPCI8M.ECW

    And thanks for the fix, it worked.

44. Good job !

45. Thank you, works great:)

    Felipe: thank you for link

    peace J

46. This is the article that keeps on giving. Works brilliantly !

47. You saved me one night, thanks.

48. I just install SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe and after this, I have sound!

49. Protools 5 Free here I come!

50. ZOMG this worked perfect! You rock!!!

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