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Need Crystal cs4205 to work in dos

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Name: Elias
Date: April 21, 2004 at 11:58:02 Pacific
OS: Dos 7.10
CPU/Ram: Pentium IV 1.6 / 512 mb
Comment:

I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a cs4205 sound card installed in the system.

I am unable to find drivers for the thing at either dell's or cirrus' web site and contacting the two companies has yielded no results.

Any ideas on how I can get the card to work in DOS? Any generic drivers that you think will work?

It shows up as Crystal WDM Audio Codec in devices in XP system menu.

Once again the card is a Crystal CS4205.

Please help I'm getting desparate!




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Name: flimflam
Date: April 21, 2004 at 15:20:50 Pacific
Reply:

If it is on-board sound does the BIOS list a Sound Blaster Compatibilty mode for the Sound Chip?

In pure standalone MSDOS and equivelent in AutoExec.Bat the SET BLASTER line is used:

SET BLASTER=Axxx Ix Dx Hx

A: Sound Blaster base I/O-port,
I: IRQ
D: DMA low channel
H: DMA high channel (only required for SB16 or higher)

Usual values are: A220, I5 or I7, D1, H5.

If I5 does not work, try I7 and vice-versa


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Response Number 2
Name: Elias
Date: April 21, 2004 at 15:42:31 Pacific
Reply:

The BIOS unfortunately does not list a soundblaster compatibility mode.


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Response Number 3
Name: drz01
Date: April 25, 2004 at 06:27:18 Pacific
Reply:

if it's a software based chipset as most onboard soundcards are you will not be able to run it in dos. this affects a lot of soft modems too.


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