If none of the advice you've been given works, try eBay for
an OEM CD of Windows 98.

And remember that its a good idea to copy the contents of
the CD to a different partition or an additional hard drive.

Hard drives are very cheap. Installing a second drive as a
backup drive is a good idea. You can then use the free
XXCopy from http://www.xxcopy.com/ to clone the system to a
different partition on the same hard drive or to a second
hard drive.

You just install XXCOPY and then enter the command xxcopy
c:\*.* D: /clone to clone the system to the second hard
drive, which is D: but could be given another letter
depending on the partitions and drives that are on the
system. The second drive is D: on my Windows 98 system.

The clone is bootable, which means that if you change the
boot order in the BIOS to make the second hard drive the
boot drive, the system will boot, because the D: drive
becomes the C: drive.

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

-----Original Message-----
You don't need the W98 disk. What you need is a disk with the
driver software.
Here is a site where you can download this driver software
http://www.modem-drivers.com/companies/24.htm

Note this a combination sound card - modem card.

You might also look on your C drive for a folder with a
copy of the W98 CD.
The files in this folder will look like Win98xx.cab, where
xx are numbers
from 01 through the 60's.
Start looking by looking for a folder
C:\windows\Options\cabs as this is the
most common place for pre-installed windows disks to be
copied.

"C Flora" wrote in
message
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I haven't used a computer for awhile, had it unplugged.
Went to set it up for son to use for games and it said it
discovered new hardware! AC 5618 sound modem or
something like that and to reinstall the driver. I
cannot find my windows 98 disk anywhere, tried going to
microsoft for download, can't figure out what I
need...son is driving me crazy, wants to play games, but
no fun with no sound...any suggestions? thank you


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