Audio just *quits" from time to time

I'm running Windows 98 on a 1Ghz Pentium system using
a SiS PC266 socket A motherboard. And what's been
happening lately is that the audio would just stop, to
where I wouldn't be able to hear any of my mp3's,
Windows tones, etc. I would then shut the PC off for
about 5 minutes, turn it back on again, and everything
would be fine. This has happened twice in the past 2 weeks.

Here's my question: would I need to reinstall the
audio driver to keep this from happening? It's a SiS
7018 audio driver, which of course is integrated into
the mo'board.

 

I've tried reinstalling drivers for similar problem... same result. I find
it unlikely that it would be a driver issue because if it's a problem, it
wouldn't be intermittent. You might want to check to make sure that it's not
sharing resouces with another device.

I would ditch the onboard sound (disable it) and pick up a cheap
replacement. Judging you have a 1 GHZ system, any $15.00+ sound card would
be superior to it.