Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am I SOL?
 

Please help.
I just got an Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card,Model SB0570.
When I got it home,I noticed it said Windows 2000(SP4),XP(SP2),
or XP professional X64.
I was going to take it back, but I called a computer shop and asked them,
and he said I should be able to find drivers on the Internet for 98.
These are the names of the drivers I tried,
I tried SBAX_WBUP2_LB_2_09_0016
Also tried AUDLS_PCDRV_LB_1-02-00
but when I went to install them, it said I needed windows 2000 or better.


Also tried,I did find this one,SBA2_PCWDRV_LB_1_84_55-R1
that said it was for (Copy and pasted from web site)

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Driver (Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP)
5/12/2005
But it also said I needed windows 2000 or better.


I am still looking, but not having any luck.
Am I SOL and stuck with a $30.00 sound card?
thanks, Tony

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am ISOL?
 

ANTHONY DIODATI wrote:

Also tried,I did find this one,SBA2_PCWDRV_LB_1_84_55-R1 that
said it was for (Copy and pasted from web site) Creative Sound
Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Driver (Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP)
5/12/2005 But it also said I needed windows 2000 or better.

I have a Creative Audigy2 Sound Blaster card as well as an Audigy2
Platinum (I have yet to install them in a system). I believe that
both cards came out in 2002. I think that both cards are the same,
except the platinum comes with a 5.25" drive-bay-mounted
interface/control panel, and some sort of remote control.

On the box of both, Win98se is listed as a compatible OS, and drivers
for Win98se are listed as included.

Sometimes ME drivers will work when you don't have Win-98 drivers.

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am I SOL?
 

Did you check out the Creative web site for the drivers?

ANTHONY DIODATI wrote:
Please help.
I just got an Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card,Model SB0570.
When I got it home,I noticed it said Windows 2000(SP4),XP(SP2),
or XP professional X64.
I was going to take it back, but I called a computer shop and asked them,
and he said I should be able to find drivers on the Internet for 98.
These are the names of the drivers I tried,
I tried SBAX_WBUP2_LB_2_09_0016
Also tried AUDLS_PCDRV_LB_1-02-00
but when I went to install them, it said I needed windows 2000 or better.


Also tried,I did find this one,SBA2_PCWDRV_LB_1_84_55-R1
that said it was for (Copy and pasted from web site)

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Driver (Windows
98SE/Me/2000/XP)
5/12/2005
But it also said I needed windows 2000 or better.


I am still looking, but not having any luck.
Am I SOL and stuck with a $30.00 sound card?
thanks, Tony

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am I SOL?
 

"Bill in Co." wrote in message
...
Did you check out the Creative web site for the drivers?

ANTHONY DIODATI wrote:
Please help.
I just got an Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card,Model SB0570.
When I got it home,I noticed it said Windows 2000(SP4),XP(SP2),
or XP professional X64.
I was going to take it back, but I called a computer shop and asked
them,
and he said I should be able to find drivers on the Internet for 98.
These are the names of the drivers I tried,
I tried SBAX_WBUP2_LB_2_09_0016
Also tried AUDLS_PCDRV_LB_1-02-00
but when I went to install them, it said I needed windows 2000 or
better.


Also tried,I did find this one,SBA2_PCWDRV_LB_1_84_55-R1
that said it was for (Copy and pasted from web site)

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Driver (Windows
98SE/Me/2000/XP)
5/12/2005
But it also said I needed windows 2000 or better.


I am still looking, but not having any luck.
Am I SOL and stuck with a $30.00 sound card?
thanks, Tony

Have you tried this http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/.
Your card is here - just select it.
Alan

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am I SOL?
 

"Alan" wrote in message
...

"Bill in Co." wrote in message
...
Did you check out the Creative web site for the drivers?

ANTHONY DIODATI wrote:
Please help.
I just got an Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card,Model SB0570.

SNIP
Thanks to All,
I'll check it out now
Tony

Have you tried this http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/.
Your card is here - just select it.
Alan

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am I SOL?
 

"ANTHONY DIODATI" wrote in message
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SNIP
Thanks to All,
I'll check it out now
Tony

Have you tried this http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/.
Your card is here - just select it.
Alan

Looks like a No Go (Copy And Paste from Site page)

You have selected Audigy SE and Windows 98SE.

Sorry, no Creative updates are available for the selected query.
Tony

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am I SOL?
 

"ANTHONY DIODATI" wrote in message
news:VlOah.14716$JQ.53@trnddc06...

I just got an Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card,Model SB0570.
When I got it home,I noticed it said Windows 2000(SP4),XP(SP2),
or XP professional X64. . . .
These are the names of the drivers I tried, . . .

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Driver (Windows
98SE/Me/2000/XP) 5/12/2005
But it also said I needed windows 2000 or better.

It appears only a single model of Audigy card (i.e. 24-bit)
has drivers to run under Win98SE. The information is on
the Creative web site but I did not find it until I asked
directly and got a prompt reply 26 April 2006:

The Audigy 2 Value is not supported in Windows 98SE. The only new 24 Bit
sound card we are selling currently that is supported in Windows 98SE is
the Audigy 2ZS Platinum. We do have some Audigy 2ZS refurbished cards on
our Ebay store that are supported in Windows 98SE.

This is a two-card array, with added external "drive"
for multimedia or game functions. The ext. drive is
very poorly documented, i.e. Creative nowhere says
what it is supposed to do, nowhere describes
functional setups with and without the various
components. The worst feature of this
sound card is that its driver CD (including Win98SE
drivers) is copy-proofed against piracy, thus often
misreads during installation. (There is a visible
mark on the CD that Creative told me is a feature,
not a manufacturing defect.)

I never succeeded in installing only the functions
I planned to use, and removed the cards when by
chance I found an adequate 24-bit card elsewhere.
I would welcome extra information about the
various hardware and software components of
the Audigy 2ZS system.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am ISOL?
 

Don Phillipson wrote:

The worst feature of this sound card is that its driver CD
(including Win98SE drivers) is copy-proofed against piracy

What is the possible reason for that?

Driver software that's copy-protected?

It appears only a single model of Audigy card (i.e. 24-bit)
has drivers to run under Win98SE.

Does Creative currently have that driver available for download?

The OP says he has an "Audigy SE". I'm not very familiar with the
Audigy line, but there appears to be an Audigy and Audigy2 line. Is
the "Audigy SE" part of the Audigy2 family, or can it use Audigy2
drivers?

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am I SOL?
 

Return the card and purchase one that is compatible with 98/SE. It will be highly
remotely lucky if you ever come across drivers/firmware/software for that card to
work in 98/SE.

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



"ANTHONY DIODATI" wrote in message
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Please help.
I just got an Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card,Model SB0570.
When I got it home,I noticed it said Windows 2000(SP4),XP(SP2),
or XP professional X64.
I was going to take it back, but I called a computer shop and asked them,
and he said I should be able to find drivers on the Internet for 98.
These are the names of the drivers I tried,
I tried SBAX_WBUP2_LB_2_09_0016
Also tried AUDLS_PCDRV_LB_1-02-00
but when I went to install them, it said I needed windows 2000 or better.


Also tried,I did find this one,SBA2_PCWDRV_LB_1_84_55-R1
that said it was for (Copy and pasted from web site)

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS Driver (Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP)
5/12/2005
But it also said I needed windows 2000 or better.


I am still looking, but not having any luck.
Am I SOL and stuck with a $30.00 sound card?
thanks, Tony

Help!! Sound Blaster Audigy SE sound card and win 98, ......Am I SOL?
 

"Brian A" gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in message
...
Return the card and purchase one that is compatible with 98/SE. It will
be highly
remotely lucky if you ever come across drivers/firmware/software for that
card to
work in 98/SE.

Again Thanks to all,
Looks like that's the only answer. Think I got "apples and orange's"
As long as Walmart will take it back even though it's opened.
Tony