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sound card initialization problems outside of windows 98
Name: Jacob Date: January 8, 2001 at 14:25:50 Pacific
Comment:
I am having a problem using some of my older games on my windows 98 system. The games install ok, but when I try to run them in a window or from DOS, the sound card is recognized, but not initialized. Is there some kind of command that I can add to my autoexec.bat to initialize the sound blaster before windows is started or oustide of windows? Thank you
Name: Tom Fleeman Date: January 8, 2001 at 14:32:41 Pacific
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You will need to find the installation file to your sound card. You can find these at the cards website, and the file should be a full exe file that will intall the drivers for DOS and Windows. At the very least, it the site should have instructions on how to set the drivers or blaster environment to load in DOS. Your old games need a blaster driver to be running in the DOS environment to play sound. Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: hick Date: January 8, 2001 at 15:20:59 Pacific
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Yes there are commands to enter in autoexec.bat to initialize the card. They are different for the various cards so you will have to find some documentation and a driver for your card.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dave Date: January 8, 2001 at 22:24:06 Pacific
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See if this works:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1
More information at:
http://www.computer-aid-kent.co.uk/games.htm#What is the SET BLASTER command and why do I need it?
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Response Number 4
Name: fomoco Date: January 12, 2001 at 09:46:26 Pacific
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If this helps my SB512 needed emm386 to have sound in dos based games but it would load after the sound card inti so I changed the boot order so that emm386 was second in boot order, if you installed the sound card right the set blaster command line should be there already
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