Since the forums were down. I finally decided to do something usefull that i was putting off for about a week now. Installing a Soundblaster PCI128 card in a Win98 machine.
Seemed so simple and easy.
Since I got the card off forums or ebay or somewhere, it didnt come with drivers. So I went to Creative's site and downloaded them.
The card got recognized in windows startup, but the file was a exe so i had to run it from windows. Than i get a fatal exception error when i try to run it. Hmm, download another 4MB file (about 20 mins on dialup) and try again, Same thing. They have couple of other files that i tried (all 3-6Mb in size) all failed!!!!!!!
I finally went to driverreview.com and found a zip file with the right drivers!!! A simple 10 min install turned into a 3hr project!!!
And still none of the files of the Crative site worked!!!
I say damn them!!!!!!!
OK, I'm done venting, and i feel better.
:cheers:
Seemed so simple and easy.
Since I got the card off forums or ebay or somewhere, it didnt come with drivers. So I went to Creative's site and downloaded them.
The card got recognized in windows startup, but the file was a exe so i had to run it from windows. Than i get a fatal exception error when i try to run it. Hmm, download another 4MB file (about 20 mins on dialup) and try again, Same thing. They have couple of other files that i tried (all 3-6Mb in size) all failed!!!!!!!
I finally went to driverreview.com and found a zip file with the right drivers!!! A simple 10 min install turned into a 3hr project!!!
And still none of the files of the Crative site worked!!!
I say damn them!!!!!!!
OK, I'm done venting, and i feel better.
:cheers:
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