okay, here's the skinny:
i installed a new Philips PSC702 Rhythmic Edge PCI soundcard in Win98SE. When I rebooted, win detected the card and started the installation of drivers(from the philips install CD). It found several files that it said the files on disk were older than the ones already on the computer. It recommended i keep them and asked if i wanted to overwrite them. like an idiot, I cliked "yes" and it replaced them. that's when the weird stuff started happening. whenever i try to access the Philips "Acoustic Edge" software controls, the system locks. Also, i if try to open Windows control panel, it takes about a minute or two to compete this operation. This is only with control panel - other programs open immediately. Also, Windows Media Player opens very slowly and then says it cannot detect audio hardware. The card DOES PLAY in some applications like MusicMatch, normal windows sounds, etc. (and sounds great, btw) but has problems in these two areas.
Philips tech support basically said download the latest drivers, which I did, and then said I may have to reinstall windows because i had replaced those files (I believe the files were .vxd files, but i couldn't swear to it) in the initial install. i have tried uninstalling the card and reinstalling. Is there any way out of this predicament w/o reinstalling Win98? or, at least, is there a way to "over-install" Win98 without formatting my HD? I have about 2-3 GB of unreplaceable data on the HDD and really don't want to spend all day burning it on to CDs. Thanks
i installed a new Philips PSC702 Rhythmic Edge PCI soundcard in Win98SE. When I rebooted, win detected the card and started the installation of drivers(from the philips install CD). It found several files that it said the files on disk were older than the ones already on the computer. It recommended i keep them and asked if i wanted to overwrite them. like an idiot, I cliked "yes" and it replaced them. that's when the weird stuff started happening. whenever i try to access the Philips "Acoustic Edge" software controls, the system locks. Also, i if try to open Windows control panel, it takes about a minute or two to compete this operation. This is only with control panel - other programs open immediately. Also, Windows Media Player opens very slowly and then says it cannot detect audio hardware. The card DOES PLAY in some applications like MusicMatch, normal windows sounds, etc. (and sounds great, btw) but has problems in these two areas.
Philips tech support basically said download the latest drivers, which I did, and then said I may have to reinstall windows because i had replaced those files (I believe the files were .vxd files, but i couldn't swear to it) in the initial install. i have tried uninstalling the card and reinstalling. Is there any way out of this predicament w/o reinstalling Win98? or, at least, is there a way to "over-install" Win98 without formatting my HD? I have about 2-3 GB of unreplaceable data on the HDD and really don't want to spend all day burning it on to CDs. Thanks