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CMI 8333 Audio Adapter

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by bob

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Reformatted harddrive on a machine with unknown manufacturer. 300 MGHZ with integrated sound.
Loaded Windows 98se.
At startup, Windows tells me that it has detected new hardware, CMI 8333, and would like to search for the driver. Original OS is 95. 95 supposedly holds the driver. Found the driver, with some intense searching, on the internet. Downloaded it. Windows no longer wanted to search for the software for the new hardware, but the sound still does not work. in add new hardware it already has the best driver. In control panel systems, it is flagged and properties says there is no driver. Allow it to search, and it tells me the best driver is already installed.
The Question is: Where do I go from here? How do I get sound out of this thing again? New sound card? OK How do I get rid of the integrated one, so it doesn't conflict?

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by thechas

The "reference sound drivers do not always work with built in audio.

You need to identify the motherboard mfg, and download the drivers from them.

While the memory is testing at POST, there is a string of characters (BIOS string) near the bottom of the screen.
Copy the string down.
Go to either www.motherboards.org
or www.wimsbios.com
Both can help you identify who made the motherboard.
Then, you can go to their web site, and identify the specific board that you have, and download the correct drivers.

For W98, you will also need to install the drivers for the chipset.
I always install the chipset drivers before I install any other drivers. It makes everything work better.

If you want to disable the integrated sound;
Remove the sound system from device manager.
Shut down.
You either need to set a jumper on the motherboard, or change settings in the BIOS. (sometimes both) to disable the sound system.

by mdelyea

If you are sure that you have the correct driver and it is expanded on your hard drive (drivers are usually zipped or come in the form of a self extracting exe), then go to control panel and system and device manager and delete the reference to theCMI 8333. Reboot windows and when windows detects the device, browse to the folder where you expanded the driver to. If windows says it can't find the driver, check in the folder for a README file which may contain instructions for installing the driver (sometimes you have to run SETUP.EXE).

by joe

Another way is to extract those drivers to a temp directory, remove the sound from the device manager, restart your computer and than when windows says "has found new hardware" point to that temp directory where your drivers are. Hope that fixes theproblem

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