First post, by xjas
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So I'm trying to get my Turtle Beach Montego II going on my K6 machine. This started on a brand new install of Win98SE; no previous sound drivers. Originally I thought the card was a Montego A3D (Montego 1) and installed the driver package in the post I linked to. In my defense, the card looks exactly the goddamn same and the part number on the chip only differs by ONE digit. Naturally that didn't work.
I uninstalled that, and tried to install from the CD ISO on VogonsDrivers. That didn't work either; I got a blue screen every time it got to installing the DOS SBPro emulation device. After this it refused to boot, leaving me hung at a blinking cursor when the system processed the autoexec.bat. I could still boot in safe mode.
I kept messing around with it (doing things like REMing out the TSRs it puts in the autoexec.bat & manually removing things from the device manager), but nothing I did would fix this or get any sound from the card in Windows.
Eventually I figured out that since my card came from a Dell XPS, there was a specific Dell driver release for this card. I don't think it's any different from the normal drivers (unlike Dell's gimped/altered Creative cards), but I tried to uninstall everything and install that. Same result.
The problem is, it's so messed up now with old driver residue, that whenever I boot with the card in, Windows will immediately re-install the old, broken driver package with no way for me to stop it or cancel out, despite the fact that I've expunged every trace of it that I can find from the filesystem. It always BSODs when trying to install the SBPro emulation and always fails to boot in the same way after that. I have no idea where it's dredging the install files up from.
How the heck can I fix this? I'd like to try the Dell package on its own without the residue from the two other failed installs, but I can't even attempt it because Windows always screws itself over before I can run the new installer. I'm pretty sure the card itself works, it seems fine in a Linux machine, but it MAY have some problem that isn't immediately apparent.
Ideas/advice appreciated!
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