Anyone have an OLD sound card that would run under win 98 architecture laying around in a drawer??
I gave somebody 120 bucks worth of CCs here at work for what was supposed to be a computer
capable of running WIN98. All he really wanted was the cigars obviously, so he could help his old man
get rid of a junk computer and have some nice CCs for his dad for Christmas. Well after taking it home
and beating my head against the wall, it became clear that I had been fudged. But as he is a co-worker,
I am forced b company rules to man up and forget about it. But I made him feel like crap by letting him know
that I was out 120 bucks and that he could have the 50 pound POS back. Well he came to me today
about two months later, "Man, I want to make it right". I told him there was nothing to make right,
I had written it off and was not gonna expend any more brain cells on that bad deal. I told him that
if in his spare time he found a sound card that was ancient enough, and it actually WORKED then I would
take it home. The OS worked but it never would create sound, and all the drivers for all the BS he shoveled
down my throat never amounted to jack squat. I make it sound like I got angry today, but I really just told
him not to lose any sleep over it, I had moved on and would rather not talk about it.

Oh, what all this is about is if anyone has an old SC in a drawer that they know will run in WIN98,
I'd be happy to trade cigars for your trouble. But please, no need to get involved unless you know
it will work in 98 or 98SE. Otherwise, it's the same old thing, isn't it? :-)

It can be ISA bus or PCI card, I have both free in that gigantic steel POS.
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ISA. WOW it has been a while since I've seen an ISA sound card. What if it has the CD-ROM IDE port on it too? :-) You know circa 1994.



Sorry Brad, I don't mean to make light of the situation. It sucks getting the short end of the stick. I wish I could help.
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Brad, I just went and checked a box of parts, I'm holding a Yamaha YMF724A w/ the extra SPIDF out (in addition to the regular outputs) that you can have. PM me an address and I'll toss it in the mail.

It's a PCI card - YMF724E-V chip.
W98 drivers are still available:
http://www.yamahamultimedia.com/yec/...ard_Whelp.html
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If you run into video problems, ive got several aboveboard video cards sitting around. I've got 3-4 old computers in the storage bldg that would be the same tech as yours. I'm sure several gave aboveboard video as well as sound cards. Heck, I've still got my original 8086 put there (and half a dozen stepping up the line of tech advances.
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I sure appreciate T.G coming through with the PM and the inbound cardo-bomb. It worked 'right out
of the box'. Adam has been a steady pal since I started smoking meat a year or two ago, my gosh, has it
been that long? Thanks for the card, now I have sound in one out of three games, lol. I am not even going
to begin the standard process of wasting whole chunks of weekends juggling IRQs and DMAs. I am just going
to try and avoid the computer like a plague. Damn games. Now I remember why I quit playing them. Brain drain.

Thanks to all who responded and generously offered to help.
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