I have installed VMware 5.5 Workstation on my Windows XP home PC. I have installed Windows 98se on my second hard drive as a virtual machine using 15 GB ytes of my second Hard drive.
I cannot install my sound card & drivers in the VMware power on Windows 98se operating system? My Windows XP home sound card is onboard AC'97 digital audio Avance. I have tried to install the drivers from my original motherboard driver cd rom disc but none of them will install through driver update or add new hardware wizard. In Windows 98 I get a found new hardware PCI Multimedia Audio Device found but the windows 98 drivers on my motherboard disc do not install. I get a code 28 error or code 10 error in my Device manager settings. My Motherboard is a EP-3WTM Via Apollo PLE133T Agp set. I think I need the drivers for Windows 98 not Windows XP. Thank you
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Hi David39, as long as Windows 98 is recognising the PCI card and asking for the software - it does indeed sound like you are just missing the correct driver...
Boot into your Windows98 OS (ignore any requests for the driver at this stage) and then download the driver from here...
http://www.epox.com/USA/ar
When the download completes, run the SETUP.EXE to install the drivers... this should sort you out?
James
Hi,
i dont understand your problem atm, David39. Your host operating system is Windows XP Home and the sound card is recognized and works? and then you installed win98 as a guest operating system in vmware and you try to install sound drivers on it?
vmware workstation just virtualizes the hardware of your host pc, so you don't need the drivers of your real hardware on your guest operating system.
you should try to install the vmware tools on your guest system, if this doesn't work, try to install a generic sound blaster driver from creative like the following.
http://ccftp.creative.com/
i hope i didn't misunderstood your problem.
Hi, James Thank you for your reply, I did as you said & downloaded the files from epox & installed them on the Windows 98 OS in Setup.exe but I get a VIA AC'97 Audio Chipset not found on this system.
I also checked my Vmware virtual settings & I have under the Audio settings - VIA AC'97 Audio(wave) I do not understand why I cannot get my sound to work.
I have checked my control panel & systems within Windows 98 & here I have Sound Video & game Controllers with sub heading VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM) but the drivers are wrong I have a code 10 error here. The Epox website driver looks correct but I do not understand why it will not install?
Please advise, Thank you
Can I ask why you're using Vmware? As you have a second hard drive - you may as well install Windows 98 on that and configure your startup options to enable you to select either Operating System when the PC boots up. This way you've got both OS's installed, without needing Vmware (and it's apparent issues).
I'm not too familiar with VMware, but I'd say that as long as the PCI card works (which we know it does) - and the sound card has available drivers for Win98 (which we know it does) - then it's the VMware software which is getting in the way somehow.
I'm sure if you configured a dual-boot scenario you'd be home and dry...?
James
No Man , the problem is not with the drivers or the Mobo..
It's not a problem actually but is the way VMWare is designed to behave..
When an OS runs on VMWare , a completely virtual Motherboard and BIOS are emulated .. hence the drivers of ur original mobo will surely not work on the OS inside VMWAre ( win98 in this case,..)
So what u need to do is to install VMWare tools, which will automatically install the right drivers for audio and video in win98..
To install :
1. Boot the virtual PC of win98.
2. While it's running , go to File>Install VMWare Tools
See this for more details:
http://www.vmware.com/supp
Also u can increase some performance:
http://www.vmware.com/supp
Hope it helps..
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by: tonyteriPosted on 2006-01-29 at 07:19:27ID: 15817512
Yes, the problem is it keeps defaulting to the XP drivers.