You have found the answer--The only thing left that don't work is the transplanted hardrive. I think your right that the registry is corrupted on the Old win98 Hardrive

Apparently left over files are conflicting and causing the problems. I'd try to clean up the old Win98 with the win98 tools:
 "scandisk", "scanreg" an "SFC" from the START>RUN box and if I really wanted to save the register. I'd export the register to the desktop before I did anything and lastly I'd defrag the Harddrive.

These are all win98 tools. If you have "Norton" It does a work similar to the Win98 tools but with less effort and perhaps more effective.---Mike Michel

 --- On Wed 02/05, Kerry Harrison -wrote:

Subject: [PCBUILD] Loss of Audio in Win98 after Motherboard transplant

I transplanted a hard drive with Win98SE installed on it from an old
Gateway P2-350 system to a whitebox ECS P6VEM3 motherboard based system
(Via C3 GigaPro CPU with SiS chipsets) and managed to get everything
working with the new hardward except for the onboard audio (and SiS 7801).
The most recent Win98 drivers are installed, the device shows up in
Device Manager, but it can't be selected as an Audio Playback device in
the Multimedia Control Panel.  I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling
the device, no joy.  I've pulled the hard drive out stuck another one in
and installed Win98SE from scratch and loading the SiS 7801 drivers and
the audio works fine so I know the motherboard audio is good.

Anybody got any ideals as to what's going on and how to fix it?  I'm
guessing it's something in the system registry that needs to be manually removed?--

Kerry Harrison

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