Im getting an old laptop im not sure what os im going to put on maybe Linux,Win 3.1 or 95A It dosnt have a built in sound card so I have been searching for a sound option first though was geting a pcmcia soundcard but I have seen the nowhere but Im almost sure they exist Im wondering if there`s any other way to get sound (excluding PC speaker because the sound through that is only just audible) Thanks

"I'm getting an old laptop im not sure what os im going to put on maybe Linux,Win 3.1 or 95A" How about multi-boot among DOS, Win3.1 GUI and Win95 GUI? An example: CONFIG.SYS: [MENU] MENUITEM=DOS, Start DOS MENUITEM=WIN31,Start Windows 3.1 GUI MENUITEM=WIN95,Start Windows 95 GUI [DOS] [WIN31] [WIN95] [COMMON] DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS DEVICEHIGH=SETVER.EXE DEVICEHIGH=IFSHLP.SYS DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO FILESHIGH=30 BUFFERSHIGH=20 LASTDRIVEHIGH=26 ... AUTOEXEC.BAT: @ECHO OFF LH DOSKEY ... GOTO %CONFIG% :WIN95 ECHO Now starting Windows 95 GUI... CD \WIN95 WIN GOTO DOS :WIN31 ECHO Now starting Windows 3.1 GUI... \WIN31\WIN GOTO DOS :DOS ECHO Now I'm in DOS prompt. ECHO ON

Thanks for the advice I think I will multiboot Dos 95A and 3.1 because they are all small and will sit on the same partition happly (with a few little patches) :-) as for the sound I think I may have to go with the MS PC speaker driver for 3.1 and 95

If you load MS-DOS followed by Windows 3.1 into a dirctory called say C:\WIN31 - When you load Windows 95 it will create the multi-boot menu for you.

Thanks for the help It arrived today but I cant install win 95 because the ram board (4MB) was DOA so its only got 4 total untill I can find a replacment (probably hard because its old) I was told that 95 will run on 4 mb but I realy do not want to try it :-) It already has Windows 3.1 I stuck calmira on it and its starting to look good it dose have alot of junk on the hard drive that I will have to manually remove but thats not a problem I was just wondering if anyone know`s where I can pickup the old microsoft PC speaker wave driver and the Micrsoft PC speaker midi driver ((recently microsoft classified 3.1 dead and I think they removed all 3.1 related items from there website)) If I find them first I will post back with URL`S Thanks

Found the wave driver midi seems a little harder to find http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/companies/800.htm

There is another way(except the pc speaker) to have sound on your old laptop,but you must build it yourself.The solution is the Covox DAC on the LPT port.With the drivers in http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/freew.html (lptdac.zip) you can have sound in win 3.1/3.11 and win 95.The sound is very good and you can even play mp3!In the zip file you can find the schematics to build the DAC.I have a 486DX/66 laptop and I have tested it!The only negative thing is that you can't play mid files.