VMware – Configure sound in Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (Screenshots)
Jan 24
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
This guide is for Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition. Click Here for Microsoft Windows 98 First Edition
To play the sound for windows 98 in VMware, you need to download the below drivers.
To download, right-click the link and select “Save Target As…” or “Save Link As…”
Install Sound Blaster PCI128
- Double click on SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe that you have downloaded
- Click on Yes
- Select Yes, I want to restart my computer now.
- Click on Finish to restart your computer
Install eapci8m.ecw file
- Copy the file eapci8m.ecw into C:\windows\system.
- On the Windows Start menu, click Settings, click Control Panel
- Click on System.
- In the System Properties, click Device Manager, expand Sound, video and game controller, click SB PCI(WDM), click Properties.
- In the SB PCI(WDM), click Settings.
- In the MIDI Synthesizer Waveset, click Add WaveSet.
- Select the file eapci8m.ecw in C:\windows\system, click OK.
- 8 MB GM/GS Waveset ver 5 will be displayed under MIDI Synthesizer Waveset.
- Click OK to exit and restart your windows 98.
It works!
Works like a charm! Thanks a bunch!!!!
I needed to screw around a bit when installing the sound blaster. It asked me to insert the sound blaster install disk which, of course, I don’t have. But since the driver files had been extracted into C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\CRF000\Drivers\Wdmdrv i was able to specify that location for the installer to get its files from. Hope this helps someone.
Thanks worked great!
Thank you very much!! Let the Win 98 nostalgia virtualization begin!!
You saved my life, thank you very much
Works on Win98SE [PL]. Thanks.
i am very happy
Thank you! I’ve been trying to get the sound to work on this for several days now, and attempted several variations on driver-related fixes – this is the one that has finally worked.
One point – I needed to have my Windows98SE CD in the tray before I started this: the first time round I didn’t..and I couldn’t get the tray to open during the install. Result: fail. When I ran through it the second time (CD in!) everything was fine.
thank you very much
I AM VERY DONE IS WORK IN VWMARE
All fine installing the drivers, but since I restarted it I keep getting this error
“Unable to open the disk ‘Windows 98.vmdk’.
Failed to configure disk ide0:0. The virtual machine cannot be powered on with an unconfigured disk.”
on my VMWare Workstation, who can help me? D:
This is great!!!!!!!
Thanks……..works like a charm!!!!!!
thanks
Yes, it doesn’t work as it always asks for a “PCI system peripheral” driver that it can’t find and there’s no way to find out which device this could be as there’s no info on Vendor and device ID.
CORRECT IT: “System” is wrong, it must be “System32″
Anyway, thanks for this tutorial
Great tutorial, works flawlessly ! Vmware should include this in their manual :}
Thanks!! Great work!
freakin’ genius ! it workz !
Praise the lord – been battling with this for days and this worked right out of the box!! Thank you so much for stopping me from becoming crazy!!!