Hi, I cannot get my SB16PnP PCI board to work under pure DOS 6.2 - I've tried SBINIT & the SB CTC Manager, they all start up, but still cannot locate the I/O & IRQ of the card. Creative support could not see the 'dual boot' part my message and just kept giving me the Windows2000 help! Now I've made it absolutely clear it's pure DOS, they've started ignoring me! Help please - I have some old DOS applications that will not run in a window in 2000 and I'd like to run them again! Thanks

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13016.html http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/226/03/1.html May give some clues, I have myself tried to configure Creative P&P cards to run under DOS but had many problems. Went to a boot fair and got a couple of old ones which had drivers disks with them and stated DOS/W3.x compatible

It works fine under my pure MS-DOS 7.10.

DOS 7.10 is 32bit and underpins Windows 95B to 98SE, not entirely the same as DOS 6.2x 16bit which was the last stand alone version. http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/product.asp?bypass=1&category=2&os=15&driverlang=1&prod=36&drivertype=1 I presume you have used this driver for P&P?

I have a SB Vibra16 PnP, however it's in an ISA slot. But this may help; (MSDOS 7.10a, MSDOS.SYS is set bootgui=0) My config.sys........... [Menu] menucolor=9,0 menuitem=windows,Windows 98 Second Edition menuitem=dos,MSDOS 7.10a menuitem=doscd,MSDOS 7.10a with CDROM Support menuitem=dossound,MSDOS 7.10a with Sound menuitem=doscdsound,MSDOS 7.10a with CD Support & Sound menudefault=windows,8 [COMMON] SWITCHES=/F break=on [windows] [dos] dos=high,umb,noauto SHELL=d:\command\COMMAND.COM d:\command /E:512 /p DEVICE=d:\command\HIMEM.SYS /q device=d:\command\emm386.exe d=64 noems frame=none I=B000-B7FF devicehigh=d:\command\ansi.sys /x FILEShigh=40 stackshigh=9,256 [doscd] include=dos DEVICEhigh=d:\command\MTMCDAI.SYS /D:MTMIDE01 [dossound] include=dos DEVICEHIGH=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /WIN95 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5 DEVICEhigh=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS [doscdsound] include=dossound DEVICEhigh=d:\command\MTMCDAI.SYS /D:MTMIDE01 My autoexec.bat............. @ECHO OFF if exist c:\SCANDISK.LOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y c:\SCANDISK.LOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y c:\windows\APPLOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y C:\RECYCLED IF EXIST C:\TREEINFO.NCD DEL C:\TREEINFO.NCD :: IF EXIST d:\SCANDISK.LOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y d:\SCANDISK.LOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y D:\RECYCLED IF EXIST D:\TREEINFO.NCD DEL D:\TREEINFO.NCD :: IF EXIST e:\SCANDISK.LOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y e:\SCANDISK.LOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y E:\RECYCLED IF EXIST E:\TREEINFO.NCD DEL E:\TREEINFO.NCD :: IF EXIST f:\SCANDISK.LOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y f:\SCANDISK.LOG d:\command\DELTREE/Y F:\RECYCLED IF EXIST F:\TREEINFO.NCD DEL F:\TREEINFO.NCD :: PATH c:\windows;c:\windows\command;C:;D:;d:\BATCH;d:\COMMAND;D:\GHOST;D:\TOOLBOX;E:;e:\DosNav;e:\pkware;F:\WIN98RK; SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP echo.EXIT|%COMSPEC%/K PROMPT $_ $_ $D$_ $_ $T$_|FIND " " echo. GOTO %CONFIG% :: :WINDOWS PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files\Mts" SET DIRCMD=/A/O/P echo Loading Windows 98 Second Edition. Please wait............ c:\windows\WIN GOTO END :: :DOS prompt $e[1;37;44m$p$g$e[1;37;40m echo Loading MSDOS 7.10A. Please wait............ echo. LH d:\command\SMARTDRV.exe 4096 16 LH d:\COMMAND\DOSKEY/INSERT/REINSTALL LH E:\MOUSE\GMOUSE SET COMSPEC=d:\command\COMMAND.COM SET DIRCMD=/A/O/P/V SET COPYCMD=/V/-Y SET TEMP=c:\windows\TEMP SET TMP=c:\windows\TEMP GOTO END :: :DOSCD prompt $e[1;37;44m$p$g$e[1;37;40m echo Loading MSDOS 7.10A with CDROM support. Please wait............ echo. LH d:\command\MSCDEX.exe /D:MTMIDE01 /M:10 LH d:\command\SMARTDRV.exe 4096 16 LH d:\COMMAND\DOSKEY/INSERT/REINSTALL LH E:\MOUSE\GMOUSE SET COMSPEC=d:\command\COMMAND.COM SET DIRCMD=/A/O/P/V SET COPYCMD=/V/-Y SET TEMP=c:\windows\TEMP SET TMP=c:\windows\TEMP path=%PATH%;%CDROM% GOTO END :: :DOSSOUND prompt $e[1;37;44m$p$g$e[1;37;40m echo Setting the DOS configuration for your sound card. Please wait............ echo. echo DOS Configuration complete. echo. LH d:\command\SMARTDRV.exe 4096 16 LH d:\COMMAND\DOSKEY/INSERT/REINSTALL LH E:\MOUSE\GMOUSE SET COMSPEC=d:\command\COMMAND.COM SET DIRCMD=/A/O/P/V SET COPYCMD=/V/-Y SET TEMP=c:\windows\TEMP SET TMP=c:\windows\TEMP c:\windows\CTCM SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 GOTO END :: :DOSCDSOUND prompt $e[1;37;44m$p$g$e[1;37;40m echo Loading MSDOS 7.10A with CDROM and sound card enabled. echo. echo Please wait...... echo. LH d:\command\MSCDEX.exe /D:MTMIDE01 /M:10 LH d:\command\SMARTDRV.exe 4096 16 LH d:\COMMAND\DOSKEY/INSERT/REINSTALL LH E:\MOUSE\GMOUSE SET COMSPEC=d:\command\COMMAND.COM SET DIRCMD=/A/O/P/V SET COPYCMD=/V/-Y SET TEMP=c:\windows\TEMP SET TMP=c:\windows\TEMP path=%PATH%;%CDROM% c:\windows\CTCM SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 GOTO END :: :END EXIT

Wrong. MS-DOS 7.10 is also 16-bit,just like MS-DOS 6.x,not 32-bit at all. BTW, FreeDOS 32 is a 32-bit DOS.

Wengier is correct. The windows gui is 32 bit, but not the dos it rides on.