I'm having problems installing drivers for Crystal WDM Audio Codec after a clean install of 98SE on HP Pavilion 6630. In device manager under sound, video and game controller is listed Crystal WDM Audio Codec with an exclamation symbol. When I remove this and reboot on start up the new hardware is recognized. Then I am prompted that the disk labeled WHQL is now required and the disk is provided by your computer manufacturer. When I click OK it says the file PW4026.cat cannot be found. Then I'm prompted the disk labeled Crystal AC9x WDM driver disk is now required and is provided by your computer manufacturer. When I click OK the file cwawdm.sys cannot be found. How do I get these files without having the disk?

http://drivermagic.com/p/nph-detail.php?a=66

Go to the above to download.

I'm not very knowledgeable in downloading and installing zip files. I installed a free zip program called Ken Ward's Zipper to unzip the files I need. I still can't install these files. Can you walk me thru the steps of unzipping the files and installing them?

Go to the link/site which was posted by Fingees. Make sure all three files have a check mark in the selection boxes. (ie; Select All)

Download then extract these to somewhere handy on your system.

Open Device Manager and select Install (or Re-install) driver. (Or do what you did the first time these files were requested by the system.)

When asked for the files in question, point to the location where you saved the files. The drivers should install.

I saved the files to floppy. (drive A:\) Then removed the Crystal WDM Audio Codec in device manager. When I rebooted the new hardware was found and I was prompted for the original disk (WHQL) from the computer manufacturer. I pointed to drive A:\ and the file (PW4026.cat) couldn't be found so I selected skip file. Next I was prompted for the second disk (Crystal AC9x WDM driver disk). I pointed to drive A:\ and the file cwawdm.sys was loaded and now I'm happy to report I HAVE SOUND. Thanks so much to Dan Penny and Fingees. You are the greatest.

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