ibm38mdsp2780

"I have included a little more info with my upload (MW20Dpkg.zip), but this is basically the same driver. I got this to work in Aptiva 2144-A12 with the Dolphin card & Windows 98 Upgrade that crashed hard, & mouse, display driver, & sound card stopped working, but I had to do a couple of things:

1) Ran Windows 98 Upgrade Setup from installation CD to restore basic Windows operation. I am also running a 3Com #3C509TP ethernet adapter in this machine, which has hardware conflicts with the MWave (it uses IRQ10 which cannot be adjusted, that conflicts with MWave MPU-401 feature). I tried installing drivers with all 5 steps, & sound feature worked great after step 4, but rebooting after step 5, it went out to lunch again. Wound up repeating the operation, stopping after step 4, & uninstalling driver setup program with control panel "Add/Remove Programs".

2) I had to set up a dual configuration, disabling MPU-401 & "33.6 VOD Modem" on first configuration (with ethernet adapter), since there were no free I/O Range resources left for the modem or MPU-401 with ethernet card configured in, & adjusting IRQ on MWave from 10 to 9 to run sound feature with ethernet, & in second configuration removed ethernet adapter from hardware profile so MWave modem would work normally. Modem was configured to Com3 before the crash, but now defaults to Com1.

3) Windows Media Player would crash the system every time I tried to play a media file. I had to uninstall Windows Media Player (all versions), & run Windows Setup from installation CD again so my new sound configuration settings would be saved by Windows. Re-installed Media Player again & so far so good.

With the original Windows 95 embedded MWave drivers, I would get "Mwave driver resource conflict message" at system startup when I installed the ethernet adapter a few months before the crash. With the new drivers, I don't get that anymore, & I now have sound while using DSL through ethernet, so I can listen to streaming audio now where I couldn't before!

In configuration 2, modem works fine & even the Aptva Audio Station & Communications Center software still works! Thanks!"

"I forgot to mention in previous feedback that during step 3 of driver installation I got a popup: "Button 'No' not found" & had to click "OK" & manually install the "IBM Dolphin MWave DSP Adapter" by selecting from the device list. In Windows 98, you must select "IBM", NOT "IBM Corporation", or "IBM PC Company" to find the "IBM Dolphin MWave DSP Adapter" in the device list. After being prompted for Windows 98 Installation CD, the card showed up in Device Manager under "Other Devices". After uninstalling Windows Media Player & running Windows setup again, the "Other Devices" heading disappeared in Device Manager, & was replaced with "MWaveDSP"."

"STEP 3 Locks up! Once step 1 is completed, do step 2, and then Add New Hardware. Follow these steps to add it... 1. Goto Start -> Settings -> Control Panel 2. Goto Add New Hardware 3. Make sure you DONT detect them... you will need to goto "No, I will select it from a list" 4. Goto Other Devices 5. Locate IBM in the Company list. (NOT IBM/Lexmark or any others. must be "IBM" only) 6. Find IBM Dolphin MWave DSP Adapter 7. Install, and restart. If you need more help, email me!"

"Same results as one previous user had that couldn't get past step 3, just sat with hour glass flipping forever. Tried a manual install of step 3 as per the readme for step 3 and it installed lesser components but still left 4 main ones in Other devices uninstalled. Ended up using mwave.rar from the IBM38 2780 Pro post, they're Spanish (i think) but i got to work ok."

"I have tried to install this driver to a Dell pentium 1(133Mgh + 80MbRam). The first 2 step of instaling its ok but the at the 3 the sitem is not responding. The soft tell me to not move the mouse or keyboard, ok, but I have waiting for 37 m inutes at this step and nothing. Bad jokes. DO NOT INSTALL ON A SLOW COMPUTER!"