Soundcard causes Win98 to crash, won't boot unless card is disabled

[france99]

When I installed my Yamaha SW1000XG soundcard into my Win98 machine with Yamaha's Win98 drivers, the machine wouldn't restart, it got as far as a blank green screen with the cursor and froze. When I turned the machine off and on again and booted into safe mode I disabled the card in device manager, and was able to boot normally. When I went back to device manager and enabled the card, the machine froze straight away and I was back to square one. On board sound is disabled, and I tried moving to another PCI slot in case there's IRQ conflicts, with no results.
I previously tried to get this card working on the same machine running XP. There were no crashes, but it didn't make a sound. I initially used the Win2000 drivers from Yamaha which many people used without any problems, but this caused the machine to crash, reporting "serious system error". When Yamaha released the XP drivers I updated and this problem went away, but still no sound.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[gargouille]

1 thought, make sure you don't have the BIOS set to Halt On All Errors...Safe Mode booting is okay 'cause the drivers aren't being loaded....no error-no stop.

Did you try a bootlog.txt with the card in just to make sure that's where the freezing is?

Hit F8 in the POST to get the boot menu...then choose with bootlog.txt. May have to enable show all files to see it.
Last line will probably be the stopper...
I'd, of course, agree with your suggestion the issue is with drivers...but there seem to be lots of ppl using this card without the problems. (like that helps)

You don't say, but is there onboard sound, and is it properly disabled?

 

[darrenrd]

SAW THIS ON ANOTHER WIN98 MACHINE..WENT INOT THE BIOS AND MADE SURE THAT THE IRQ'S WERE SET TO AUTOMATICLY ASSIGN AND IT FIXED THE PROBLEM.MIGHT BE WORTH A TRY TO CHECK THAT OUT ALSO

 

[MrKovacic]

That may also depend on the PC you are using. Compaq's 5000 series and newwer have an onboard sound card problem. Out of no where, my soundcard with emit this loud squeal and freze the computer. When I installed a new soundcard to replace the onboard one, I could barely disable it. I would have sworn there was a deamon in my sound card not wanting me to let it go. After about 50 crashes and reboots, I have been able to disable the onboard soundcard and run the new one with no problems at all. So some machines actually have bugs in the hardware. So that BOIS idea sounds right.