Sound Card

Hello,
I moved an operating hard drive (Win98se) from an older computer to a newer one. Newer one has a Creative Labs sound card. How do I get the OS to recognize the sound card?
Any help appreciated.

 

What kind of Creative? Sometimes Creative cards don't like to be auto detected. They like to have the software find it. That is, try to install the software.

 

As near as I can tell, the card is a Creative Sound Blaster 16 or AWE-32. The HDD that came out of the old computer still list the old sound card in Control Panel.

 

Right click on "My Computer ", and chose properties

go into the device manager and delete/get rid of/blast/nuke/ or anyother destructive verb you can think of on all of the entries under the sound card properties.

Re-start your computer and see if windows picks up the new sound card. If it does not try getting the drivers and installing the card yourself.

Best of luck, and come back and let us know how you made out.

 

Coyote, if you're saying that you moved a working hard drive (with operating system) from one machine to another than you may want to reconsider. The proper way to do that is to reinstall your OS from scratch. The alternative, usually, is to have endless problems.

As an experiment, I tried the "hack" once to move a Win98SE hard drive from one rig to another and I turned my OS to mush. I have heard of people having success in doing this with Windows XP but I wouldn't even try it with that OS - it's not worth the future aggravation when things go wrong.

 

Vote on that Chiles! I did it with an ME drive, fried the drive. But, clean install after formatting using XP install disc doesn't solve all the problems. Did that today over a 98SE install, now "Clean install" of XP will not update on Windows update site.

Tracking down the problem, find from MSFT that this can happen when you install XP on a drive that previously had an OS. Apparently this can happen even if the drive has been formatted. They give a regedit hack that did not work on that machine.

Waiting for an email response from MSFT.

 

There is another way that works ( or has for me ) also

I have one 40gig 98 HD that has been in three different machines and has not had a clean install yet.

The main thing is to set the Video back to Standard VGA set up before removing from the 1st machine.

Install the HD in the 2nd machine. but DO NOT let it boot directly to the HD the first time. Boot to the Startup floppy and re-install Windows over itself.

I had the Windows setup files on the HD in a partition other than C: so all I had to do was type d:\options\setup and I was on my way. It completely rebuit the hardware. And all I had to do was re-install the video drivers.

I did this at least twice and have not lost a thing yet. And no problems.

I did this also with my 98SE to XP upgrade. I copied a Win98SE HD ( 6 partitions total ) booted to the 98 Startup disk and installed XP Pro over SE. NO problems whatsover.

BillyBob

 

Now you tell me!!

 

Hello Everone,
Thanks a million for the advice. Decided to start from scratch with a new OS. Will back up data, and reinstall.

 

Did the same, but everything is working

except the Sound card.
See previous message in "sound ".

I didn't know you aren't supposed to swap hard drives.
Hmmm, so how come everything is working BUT the sound card?