Having installed and now reinstalled Win 98 on a new PC along with soundchip (C-Media) and its drivers, I am still unable to hear sound generated by the system such as warning wav files and the introductory wav when Windows loads (though perhaps that is no bad thing) (!). Windows Media Player and other players play sound from files like mp3 and mpeg fine, but no player can get any sound from CDs. I can see the speaker symbol and device manager reports proper installation of sound card and drivers.
If anyone can help with some things I could try to resolve I would be grateful. The soundchip definitely supports Win 98
I did try XP but one reason I find XP hard to live with is grainy video quality whereas Win98 plays vidos perfectly as far as I am concerned. I have seen adverse comments elsewhere about video quality in XP. Anyone have any comments or explanation why that might be the case?