PCI soundcard plays no audio except for audio CDs. Its an SIIG SoundWave 128 PCI. Worked fine under Windows 95 but the drivers crashed my machine after they were installed under Windows 98. SIIG Tech Support could only point me to new driver download. But new drivers won't give me any audio other than CD--no system sounds and nothing off the web. Nothing is muted under volume control and all devices seem to be functioning correctly under Device Manager. Any ideas?

You could try putting it in another PCI slot. Or trying it in another PC and seeing if it has the same problem!

Go to the system folder under control panel and select the sound, game and video controller and click each one and then click properties. make sure all has the "exist in all hardware profiles" checked. Also while there make sure none of them has the yellow ! by them. If it does remove the item and reboot. Windows should refind them anew.

As an experiment, you could try using one of the Standard Windows Drivers and see if they work. If they do then you could try a soundblaster 128 sound card driver and see how that goes. If none of this works, ignore this message. Raa

Here's what I figured out so far. No exclamation marks next to any devices. CDs do play, but no compressed media will play. So I am thinking this has to do with missing/malfunctioning compression/decompression software (CODEC). A DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC shows under device manager, but as an experiment, I tried to play a .wav file in Windows Media Player and looked at the CODECs that were in use at the time. It showed that there weren't any. So I am guessing that this may be at the root of the problem. Anyone know anything about this stuff?