sys-extension in win 98

[J Lindroos]

Hi.

Is it possible to use a driver which is just one file with a sys-extension in win 98 (is this win 3.11:s way of doing it?). I found a driver for my soundcard at driverguide.com. It states that it's possible to use it for all win-versions, but I got a sys-file. How do I use this. In the driver-wizard they want a inf-file.

Anyone?

[dglienna]

I think you'd have to put it in the config.sys or autexec.bat file, which I think are called .nt files, now. I think soundcards used to have a sys file that had to be included in the config file.

[plenderj]

If you want to use just a .sys file, put the following into config.sys or config.nt (I don't know if this will be ignored or not on NT based machines?)

Config.sys

DEVICEHIGH=c:\somefolder\file.sys
DEVICE=c:\somefolder\file.sys

Try using DEVICEHIGH= first because that will attempt to load the file into upper memory. If that doesn't work then just stick with DEVICE= and it will be loaded into conventional memory.
Again, this is a very old way of doing things so I don't know if it will work with Win2K/XP...

[dglienna]

I'm pretty sure it is CONFIG.NT instead of CONFIG.sys