Sound Card Problem on Custom Built DOS Computer
I have a problem with my sound blaster 16 PCI card in MS-DOS 6.22 and Free DOS. I've tried many different drivers and some drivers report that there's no sound card detected.
In DOOM under MS-DOS, there is music but no sound effect unless it's set to PC speaker.
In Free DOS there is no sound unless sound effects are set to PC speaker.
The sound card works fine in Windows 2000 on the same computer.
Can anyone offer help or direction to provide a solution to get full sound om this computer?
My hardware is;
Sound Baster 16 PCI, model number CT 4750.
ASRock G41-GS R2.0 mother board.
4gb of RAM.
A Intel Core Two Dual E8500 CPU.
My autoexec.bat look like this;
@ECHO OFF
SET CTCM=C:\CTCM
C:\CTCM\CTCU /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
lh c:\dos\mscdex.exe /d:CDDRIVE /d:DVDDRIVE /m:15 /e /s /v
lh c:\dos\doskey /insert
LH C:\dos\mouse.com
SET SBPCI=C:\DOSDRV
C:\DOSDRV\SBLOAD
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM
C:\CTCM\CTCU /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
My config.sys looks like this;
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,umb
FILES=30
STACKS=9,256
DEVICEhigh=C:\DOS\emm386.exe NOEMS
DEVICE=C:\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
lastdrive=H
devicehigh=C:\dos\gcdrom.sys /d:CDDRIVE /C0
devicehigh=C:\dos\gcdrom.sys /d:DVDDRIVE /C1
In DOOM under MS-DOS, there is music but no sound effect unless it's set to PC speaker.
In Free DOS there is no sound unless sound effects are set to PC speaker.
The sound card works fine in Windows 2000 on the same computer.
Can anyone offer help or direction to provide a solution to get full sound om this computer?
My hardware is;
Sound Baster 16 PCI, model number CT 4750.
ASRock G41-GS R2.0 mother board.
4gb of RAM.
A Intel Core Two Dual E8500 CPU.
My autoexec.bat look like this;
@ECHO OFF
SET CTCM=C:\CTCM
C:\CTCM\CTCU /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
lh c:\dos\mscdex.exe /d:CDDRIVE /d:DVDDRIVE /m:15 /e /s /v
lh c:\dos\doskey /insert
LH C:\dos\mouse.com
SET SBPCI=C:\DOSDRV
C:\DOSDRV\SBLOAD
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM
C:\CTCM\CTCU /S /W=C:\WINDOWS
My config.sys looks like this;
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,umb
FILES=30
STACKS=9,256
DEVICEhigh=C:\DOS\emm386.exe NOEMS
DEVICE=C:\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
lastdrive=H
devicehigh=C:\dos\gcdrom.sys /d:CDDRIVE /C0
devicehigh=C:\dos\gcdrom.sys /d:DVDDRIVE /C1
Comments
the problem is that the pci doesn't emulate isa fully in the core 2 duo ich6 or newer chipset, get an older chipset it will work, first gen pentium 4 and older will work. I would get a pentium 3 mobo and that pci card will work with DOS than. also the williamette core pentium 4 will also work since the chipset with is ich5 should work with pci fully emulating isa. So that pci soundblaster should work under dos with an chipset of ich5 or older, or use a amd chipset which fully emulates isa under pci.
Thanks.
Your welcome, I can't figure out why that intel would take out full isa emulation out of pci on ich6 chipset or newer, When amd's chipset still fully emulates it and that even the newest amd chipset still will.
Because Wintel that's why. Older tech becoming obsolete benefits the monopolies of Microsoft and Intel.
When you choose Wintel, you lose.
You do realize MS probably makes a lot of money from OEM sales. The more computers that get too old, means more money to MS and OEMs.
If they removed backwards compatibility from Windows, they could cut quite a bit of bloat out of the OS... which is pretty much what Windows RT did.