Crystal PCI Card driver for Win98

[Dan]

I recently did a clean-install of Win98 on a Compaq Pentium II. It has
a PCI sound card on one of the expansion slots. The onboard chip has
"Crystal" written on it, so I figured the card must be Crystal.
Windows, however, failed to locate its drivers. When I picked a
Crystal driver from the list, the hardware wizard warns me that the
driver was not specifically written for this hardware, should I
continue? Yes. It installs, but the little speaker doesn't appear on
the system tray.
When I installed Win2K (for dual-boot) it detected the card driver and
it works fine (almost, anyway, because there is a minor problem that I
think is inherent for MP3 playback on Compaq boxes, but that shall be
a subject of another post). Can someone tell me how to install the
card on Win98? I'm (almost) sure Windows has the driver for the
crystal card, I don't know why it doesn't install it when detected.

 

[meerkat]

I recently did a clean-install of Win98 on a Compaq Pentium II. It has
a PCI sound card on one of the expansion slots. The onboard chip has
"Crystal" written on it, so I figured the card must be Crystal.
Windows, however, failed to locate its drivers. When I picked a
Crystal driver from the list, the hardware wizard warns me that the
driver was not specifically written for this hardware, should I
continue? Yes. It installs, but the little speaker doesn't appear on
the system tray.
When I installed Win2K (for dual-boot) it detected the card driver and
it works fine (almost, anyway, because there is a minor problem that I
think is inherent for MP3 playback on Compaq boxes, but that shall be
a subject of another post). Can someone tell me how to install the
card on Win98? I'm (almost) sure Windows has the driver for the
crystal card, I don't know why it doesn't install it when detected.

http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/companies/236.htm

Gives a list of all Compaq drivers.
But you could try..
Delete audio drivers on the Win98.
Restart the Win98, and feed it the 2K disk to find
the drivers you need

 

[Dan]

http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/companies/236.htm

Gives a list of all Compaq drivers.
But you could try..
Delete audio drivers on the Win98.
Restart the Win98, and feed it the 2K disk to find
the drivers you need

Thanks, but I doubt if this use of 2k disk for 98 driver would work.
Sounds kind of like trying to fit a truck wheel into a bicycle.

 

[meerkat]

Thanks, but I doubt if this use of 2k disk for 98 driver would work.
Sounds kind of like trying to fit a truck wheel into a bicycle.

If you don`t want to try it, OK.
Go into 2K OS, and find out what Audio drivers it`s
using, Then go to that site I gave you, and see if there`s
a 98 match.
I`m only trying to help <g>.

 

[paulmd]

I recently did a clean-install of Win98 on a Compaq Pentium II. It has
a PCI sound card on one of the expansion slots. The onboard chip has
"Crystal" written on it, so I figured the card must be Crystal.
Windows, however, failed to locate its drivers. When I picked a
Crystal driver from the list, the hardware wizard warns me that the
driver was not specifically written for this hardware, should I
continue? Yes. It installs, but the little speaker doesn't appear on
the system tray.
When I installed Win2K (for dual-boot) it detected the card driver and
it works fine (almost, anyway, because there is a minor problem that I
think is inherent for MP3 playback on Compaq boxes, but that shall be
a subject of another post). Can someone tell me how to install the
card on Win98? I'm (almost) sure Windows has the driver for the
crystal card, I don't know why it doesn't install it when detected.

Probably it's a crystal soundfusion something. Crystal cards are
identified by a 4 digit number.

There are lots of different ones. Given the generation it's probably
the cs4614, or 4218.


Use a program such as aida32 or everest to identify the card for sure.

win98se
http://www.cirrus.com/en/support/drivers/audio/OS18.html

first edition
http://www.cirrus.com/en/support/drivers/audio/OS21.html

 

[kony]

Thanks, but I doubt if this use of 2k disk for 98 driver would work.
Sounds kind of like trying to fit a truck wheel into a bicycle.

The sound card's chip (peel back the sticker if there is one
on it) markings should tell you what it is, then go to the
site Paul linked to get the driver.

A Win2k driver isn't much different than a WDM, Win98SE
driver. Some cards also have an alternate VXD type driver
that will work on Win98, also supporting Win95.

 

[Dan]

Probably it's a crystal soundfusion something. Crystal cards are
identified by a 4 digit number.

There are lots of different ones. Given the generation it's probably
the cs4614, or 4218.

Use a program such as aida32 or everest to identify the card for sure.

win98sehttp://www.cirrus.com/en/support/drivers/audio/OS18.html

first editionhttp://www.cirrus.com/en/support/drivers/audio/OS21.html

Pau, thanks for tip about AIDA32 and Everest. Got and run them, and my
card was shown to be Cirrus Logic C4614/22/24 Crystalclear Soundfusion
Audio Accelerator. I'm rignt now downloading a 10 MB zip file from
driverguide.com , I guess it will work fine.

 

[paulmd]

Pau, thanks for tip about AIDA32 and Everest. Got and run them, and my
card was shown to be Cirrus Logic C4614/22/24 Crystalclear Soundfusion
Audio Accelerator. I'm rignt now downloading a 10 MB zip file from
driverguide.com , I guess it will work fine.

Gah, why'd you go to driverguide when I linked direct to the
manufacturers website????

http://www.cirrus.com/en/software/drivers/audio/PV2885.zip

 

[Dan]

Gah, why'd you go to driverguide when I linked direct to the
manufacturers website????

http://www.cirrus.com/en/software/drivers/audio/PV2885.zip

After downloading the Aida32 and Everest utilities, I went on to
determine what card I had on the PC. Indeed I hadn't known the card
with "Crystal" chip could be Cirrus Logic (so I had wrongly figured
you could be wring, so I'd be doing try and error).

And thanks again, 'cos the file I downloaded installed fine, I have
sound on Win98.