This is a long shot, but Ill try anyways.. I am running Windows 3.1 as a Virtual Machine. I am trying to install my fairly new sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Z5), but it is not installing the drivers off my install CD. Is there any way I can get this sound card to work in Windows 3.1?

your install disk is not written for 16 bit applications.

Here is an old post about making the SBLive work with old Sound blaster DOS drivers. I never tried it. It won't hurt to try this method with the Audigy. http://www.computing.net/windows31/wwwboard/forum/11093.html I'd be curious to know how it works (or doesn't) with the Audigy.

Are you using Virtual PC? Virtual PC emulates a Sound Blaster 16 PnP card, so it doesn't matter what sound card you use. I don't know much about VMWare but I think it's the same thing there.

Hi. I posted this last year concerning getting sound in Windows ME with an Audigy card. Maybe it will work in your situation too. Hi. If you use Windows ME and a Soundblaster Audigy card, this does not support DOS sound. However, just recently I discovered a cure posted by Bryan Kraynack. In a nutshell, copy the folder called DOSDRV from the Audigy installation disk onto your hard drive. Open the DOSDRV folder and locate a file called OScheck.exe. Delete this file. Run Setup.exe from the DOSDRV folder. In my case the first time I ran Setup.exe I still got the warning window saying it would not work with ME and will exit. At first I thought Bryan?s cure wouldn?t work for me. I decided to click Setup.exe one more time and the 2nd time the DOS drivers were installed. I then rebooted. The first DOS game I tried was Wolfenstein3D. Success! Both music and sound FX worked. The next DOS game I tried was DOOM. Music but no sound FX. I figured it must be an IRQ or DMA problem. I ran the System Information applet to find out what IRQs and DMAs my SB emulation used. In my case, it is ? Address ? 220 - IRQ 7 and DMA 3. I ran Setup.exe within the DOOM folder and changed the IRQ and DMA settings then started the game. Music and sound FX worked. The same thing happened with Duke3D. After running Setup.exe from within the game folder and resetting my IRQ and DMA settings I had sound. Thank you Bryan. I looked for a year and a half for something that would get my DOS sound to work in ME with the Soundblaster Audigy card. Here is the URL where Bryan placed his instructions. http://www.aerowinx.de/forum.cgi/noframes/read/176 Take care, Linda