Hey all, my first post here. Down to business. I've installed my ct4740 pci sound blaster 16 in my windows 98 machine, installed the drivers, and it works perfectly under the 98 interface. However, I'll be playing a bunch of games in dos, and I need to figure out how to get sound working. I suspect I need to load dos drivers for the soundcard, since thusfar, no sound at all is coming out of the speakers in dos. I've played around with autoexec.bat extensively, but I can't seem to find any resources or people that are intimate with its workings.

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Nothing I've tried so far has gotten any sound to come out at all. I've tried many set blaster= settings. I need a page that covers autoexec.bat *thoroughly*, and I need to figure out how to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys properly to get sound playing. ' is not a thorough resource, and leaves a lot of commands and parameters out. Upon further inspection, it would appear that my cd drive isn't loading in dos either. I suspect config.sys and autoexec.bat are completely screwed. All help is greatly appreciated.

-Yeti Edited April 14, 2008 by yetiamchosen. SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 T6 Port is 220, IRQ is 7, DMA is 1. The code I'm currently using is SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6, though I've tried it without the H7 and P330 as well. Just going off sample autoexec.bat codes. I can't find anything really informative that tells me what it SHOULD be, just a lot of examples.

And I still need to tell it where to find the dos drivers. Also: How do I configure the BIOS so that the interrupt is 5 rather than 7? I took a quick look through, but I didn't see a place to change that. Edited April 14, 2008 by yetiamchosen.

It should be under something 'IRQ reservation.' The exact settings vary from computer to computer. Just reserve IRQ 7, so that nothing can claim it.

The card should then claim IRQ 5. I just finished looking through every setting in the bios, nothing about IRQ reservation. I've seen bits and pieces of info around the net about needing to enable dos drivers. Perhaps that's misinformation. Still trying to get this thing to put sound out of the speakers. Btw, thanks for your help, idisjunction, I appreciate it.

Edited April 14, 2008 by yetiamchosen. Ok, I've installed the driver, and now (thank god) the card is recognized in dos. I'm using a sound utility that comes with TIE Fighter to test the sound. When I tell it to detect sound, it detects the SB16, detects port 220, irq 5, and dma 1, but when it tries to play sound, it goes through the motions, but nothing comes out of the speakers. Before, it wouldn't detect anything at all, so we're definitely making progress. When I tell windows to detect the sound card, it goes to irq 7.

I don't know why windows is picking 7 and dos is picking 5, but I'm assuming dos is running off of the SET BLASTER= I5 variable and windows is going off of something else entirely. So now the card is recognizing, everything is running smoothly, the only thing left is. Actually making the speakers do something? Thanks for the help so far! Manele vechi 2000 download torent u. Also: Important to note, the readme file for the drivers says that your sound blaster pci card cannot use irq 5.

At the same time, it gives you a new autoexec.bat file with the irq set to 5. Edited April 14, 2008 by yetiamchosen. I had an adventure getting sound to work 100% properly in DOS about a year ago. I used to have the configuration panel program that detects the settings. I looked for it on the web,. The SoundBlaster having an IRQ of 7 is not much of a problem for 95% of games. However, there are some that have the IRQ of 5 hardcoded in their program.

Changing the IRQ through the Configuration Panel of Windows doesn't work too well, especially if you have devices like a printer and network card also installed. In my case the network card was hogging IRQ 5, and I found that the best solution was to just put it in a different PCI slot. You haven't got the drivers with the SoundBlaster card? There are drivers for Windows and DOS, even though Windows has drivers for such cards itself. On exit to DOS, Creative's Plug & Play Manager should kick in.

If you boot directly to DOS, you have to activate it manually. This is usually ctcm.exe, and its settings are stored in ctpnp.cfg. Both are in the Windows directory. - - - - - I've played around with autoexec.bat extensively, but I can't seem to find any resources or people that are intimate with its workings. Nothing I've tried so far has gotten any sound to come out at all. I've tried many set blaster= settings.