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Started by JonW Jan 27, 2003 at 10:03 AM 4 replies 500+ views
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JonW
JonW
Hi, I recently formatted the harddrive on my older computer, and everything went well, but I'm having trouble installing my sound card. My computer was custom made professionally, and I've never formatted it before. I have the CD with the sound card driver though. When I put the CD in there was an option to install the driver for the YM724 sound card or the YM744 sound card. I didn't know which one I had so I just picked YM744. It ended up not working so I uninstalled it and put in the YM724 driver. When I restarted the computer, after my eardrums were almost blown out by the Windows startup music, I got a message that said something to the effect of 'To finish updating your system settings, you need to restart your computer'. Whatever. I restarted, was almost killed by the sound again, and the restart message came up yet again. I pressed 'NO' on the restart box this time, and when I opened 'My Computer' I noticed the D drive icon (my CD drive) was gone. I look up the cd drive in the system device properties and it said 'This device is not working properly because a device it depends on, Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo), has been dynamically disabled'. I checked in the device properties and both the Primary IDE and Secondary IDE were disabled. I clicked on one of them and it said, 'This device cannot work properly until you restart your computer (code 14.) To restart your computer now, click Restart Computer.' I clicked it and after the computer came back on the cd drive was working again. But everytime I turn on the computer the cd drive doesn't work unless I press the restart button (only the restart button in the device properties works; restarting with the Start menu doesn't). I uninstalled the sound card driver, and the Primary and Secondary IDE's began working fine. I reinstalled it and they were disabled again. I downloaded the latest driver for my sound card but that did not help either. Has anyone ever heard of this before? I checked for an IRQ conflict but couldn't seem to find one. There isn't anything wrong with my card, because whoever built it got it installed and it worked fine for 3 years. I appreciate any words of wisdom. [Edited by - JonW on October 20, 2007 12:48:40 PM]
JonW
JonW
I should also mention that I am running Windows 98 SE. My autoexec.bat file is empty, and I can post the contents of config.sys if it would be useful.
Zul
Zul
I''ve had somewhat similar problems with a Winfast Card (nVidia chipset) that I used to have. Main problem was they weren''t real quick with their updates so the drivers were always crap. Good news was that I could download and use the Detonator drivers from nVidia, and then she ran like butter. I don''t know what kind of card a YM724 is, but I recommend new/different drivers. Let me grab a link...

nVidia

and

Guru3d (all kinds of good stuff here)

"I''ve never seen that. I''ve never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the side of the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I''ve never seen that."
oh hai
JonW
JonW
Thanks for the reply.

The YM724 is a Yamaha DX-SG sound card. I got a driver update off Yahama''s website, dated in 2001 (I got the card in ''99) but it didn''t work.

Something strange I noticed when I looked at the System Properties tab was this:

File System : Some drives are using MS-DOS compatibility.
Virtual Memory : MS-DOS compatibility mode.
Details : Drive C is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system.

Could the problem have something to do with running in MS-DOS compat mode? I heard somewhere that this could result in problems with the IDE controllers having the little exclamation points on their icons. How can I disable this? Should I even disable it? I went into the registry to try removing the NOIDE key but couldn''t find it.
Zul
Zul
Well, I don''t know about the MS-DOS compatability issue, so I can''t give you any advice there. As far as the little exclamation points on your devices, sometimes a handy trick that I employed when I was having video card/Win95 problems was to just manually remove the devices with exclamation points, restart the computer, and hope that Windows figures out that your devices need drivers. Sometimes the default drivers work better than the factory ones. You can also do the "find file" method to manually select a *.inf file for whichever device needs to be made happy. But I know it gets hairy when you have a multimedia device that has 7-8 listings in the system manager

You know, come to think of it, I had similar problems to what you''re experiencing with my Ensonique card and win95/win98. Ultimately though, just getting the most up to date drivers I could find did the trick.

One final note: the registry scares me, and I keep my paws out of there :D

"I''ve never seen that. I''ve never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the side of the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I''ve never seen that."
oh hai
JonW
JonW
Good suggestion, but it didn''t seem to work. Maybe I should update the IDE drivers?

It is supposed to say in the system properties that ''your system is running at optimal performance'' but instead it says I am running in MS-DOS compatibility mode.

[Edited by - JonW on October 20, 2007 12:04:08 PM]

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