I have a computer that I have set up to boot to MS-DOS 6.22(Win 3.1 also on the same partition), Windows 98SE, and Windows 2000 Pro. I am having trouble making the sound work in Win 3.1. I am sure I have the correct drivers for my sound card for Win 3.1. Somehow I think it is an IRQ problem. If I look using MSD, IRQ 5 shows LPT 2. IRQ 5 is supposed to be where my sound card is. My sound card does not show up anywhere else. Is it possible that Win 3.1 is mis-reading the device installed there? Is there anyway to fix this? I thought LPT was a parallel port? As far as I know, I only have one, and it is correctly placed at IRQ 7. I guess it really is no big deal, but I sure would like to get sound if I can. Thanks for any help on this.

just a though if you can Disable your paralell port in bios do it and then see if the sound drivers will work you maybe beable to change your parallel port irq without disabling it in bios

Im still having problems with this. I'm not sure if this will help, but it seems worth a shot. I am trying to find the file "VPD386.exe". From what I have read, I think it will install something on Win 3.1 to help in something called parallel device contention. It is(was) supposed to be available from Microsoft, but I can't find it. Anyone know where I can get this file?

In the BIOS you can assign IRQ's (and DMA's) to Legacy ISA or PnP/PCI. I guess if you change all to Legacy ISA your sound will work in DOS/Win3.1x, but maybe 98 will give problems now. Experiment with these settings until both Operating Systems work well. Good Luck