Hi, I've got the following problem: some of my old games don't run in WinME, so I boot my pc with a Win98SE boot-diskette, which gets the games running, but unfortunatelly without sound, as I don't have a soundcard-driver for DOS. I have a "MS-6385 Micro ATX mainboard" with onboard-sound: ICH2 chip, AC'97 compliant In the device-manager of WinME the sound-chip/driver is called: "Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - SigmaTel Codec" Before my current driver I had installed two different drivers, which both worked ... there the sound-chip/driver was called: "QSound_SigmaTel Stac 97 PCI Audio" or "Intel(r) AC'97 82801 BA/BAM Controller" I was looking for a DOS-driver on the internet, but I didn't find one that worked. Then I wrote an email to the mainboard-manufacturer, but as expected there was no reply. So if anybody has a DOS-driver for this sound-chip, please send it to me or just send me a download-link. When I was looking for this driver on the internet, I read on two different sites, that for DOS there is no "driver" needed at all, as games address the soundcard "directly" in DOS. As suggested on one of the sites, I inserted the following line in my autoexec.bat: set blaster= A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 ... well, of course this didn't work either. But if anyone out there knows how to modify the autoexec.bat/config.sys to get my soundcard running in DOS - with or without driver - please tell me. Thanks a lot in advance. Bye, Marco

I have no solution, just the same problem. Let me know if you have more information, the same I will do. Thanks

You will be S*** Out of Luck getting your on-board sound card to work. Old 16-bit DOS games used enviroment variables to obtain sound card information to talk to the hardware directly. Modern Sound cards do not work this way. You have two options: 1. Play the game without sound. 2. Disable your on-board Sound Card, and install an OLD ISA-SoundBlaster 16, and use the DOS drivers for that card (I have one, and the drivers are available from Creative Labs). Be sure to boot into DOS. Now, if you use 16-bit DOS, it won't *see* your FAT-32 Hard Disk Partition. (This opens up another can of worms.) 3. Try to procure software which will emulate a DOS environment so that your SoundCard work. My gut tells me Option 3 is likely non existent. Your PC may be too new good to run old DOS games.

Option 3 (well at least part of it)... https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

I need the sound driver Intel(r) 82801BAM AC'97. Thank you very much !