Also when I tried to run CTZAPXX from step 4 it ONLY allowed me to select the WDM drivers. Initially I tried 'Emu10kx.inf' and this did get sound working, but no EAX. inf files extracted from VXD.cab: 'Emu10kx.inf' and 'SB16.inf'. When I performed his second step (forcing the installation of the drivers through Device Manager) I had two choices from the. This thread helped lead to my eventual success struggling against these Dell Audigy 2 ZS cards, but I had to make a small modification to the procedure matcarfer gave above. I achieved success installing SB0358 Audigy 2 ZS (Dell OEM), on Win98SE and official VXD Drivers with EAX doing other things:ġ- I went to AUDIO/DRIVERS/VXD and decompressed VXD.cab on the same folder, so all files are in VXD folder.Ģ- Then forced the installation going to Device Manager and manually selecting the INF.ģ- Card got installed, got sound, but no EAX and of course no applications.Ĥ- Then went to AUDIO/DRIVERS and run CTZAPXX and it let me choose VXD or WDM drivers, so I clickd VXD and success, card got EAX and got properly installed.ĥ- Installed manually EaxCon-Diagnose-CTEq and some more apps. I used the driver in this package: SBAX_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0010.exe under XP, and used the original installation media for Win98 with the VXD driver.

(the other PCI slots function as expected with other PCI cards) The last/bottom PCI slot on my Abit NF7-S V2.0 worked for me, whereas none of the other PCI slots would. I had to use a different PCI slot and it started working and recognized it just fine after that. I recently had the same issue while building one of my Win98/XP dual boot retro gaming PC's with a Dell SB Audigy2 ZS.

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