re: PCI Bridge Driver--Live! Drive
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(598 messages posted)
Clearly your motherboard needs a hardware driver for the PCI chipset that is not
included in Windows 98. Try reinstalling Windows ME.
Use your Win ME system restore CD's to do so.
Alternatively, if you installed Win 98 carefully, i.e. without over-writing the existing
Win ME installation, delete the Win 98 Windows folder (e.g. C:\Windows) and rename
the Win ME Windows folder from (for example) C:\WinOld to C:\Windows
For reference, you might want to know that you can reinstall Windows ME even if you
have no installation CD, by following the instructions in this post:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winme/1081893868
If you do follow those instructions, you will have to reinstall all of your PC's
hardware and all programs. You must have the original setup disks and CDs to hand
in order to do so.
To follow those instructions, you must also have your Win ME "product key" (serial
number) to hand. The Product Key for Win ME is stored (in plain text, unencrypted)
in the Win ME Windows Registry at -
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
Ed
On Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 4:15 pm, kneegloc wrote:
>Hello. I have a Compaq 5000US pc with Windows ME and I "upgraded" to Windows 98.
> I also have a Creative Live! Drive installed, which worked fine before, and I have
>the installation cds. When I check out the Device Manager, it tells me that my
"PCI
>Bridge" needs a driver, but it can't find one on the system or on the discs.
>
>The biggest problem is, I can't hear cds using the CD Player, and I'm wondering
if
>the PCI Bridge has anything to do with it. I can hear anything else but cds. What's
>going on here? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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- PCI Bridge Driver--Live! Drive (kneegloc: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 4:15 pm)
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