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unable to initialize sound!! HELP PLEASE
peterpiper70:
Have got my machine working great except I still can`t get no sound.I have an onboard soundcard and have installed what I believe to be the drivers from the install cd! When I try to change the soundcard in arcadeos.cfg to any other than zero I get the message
`unable to initialize soundcard, will be set to zero`
I decided then that maybe the on board sound was no good so I purchased a cheap hi-live sound card which it says is soundblaster compatible. Alas I have the same problem with this also.
So how can I tell where my problem lies?
Is the soundcard being recognised in dos?
Or does the problem stem from mame config somewhere?
could it be a problem in my bios settings?
Is it possible to test the card/s out in a dos environment to see if they are being seen?
your help is appreciated
regards
pete
OSCAR:
In order for DOS to tell MAME that your soundcard is configured, you need a line like this in your autoexec.bat:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 (this is just an example, your card/onboard requirements may be different).
You will also need a line in your autoexec.bat that loads the driver. Another example:
c:\blaster\sbdos.exe /s
If you don't have a couple lines like the above in your autoexec, you will not get sound if you are booting into DOS.
radiator:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3 P330 H6 E620
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |_______ AWE 32 Only Parameter
| | | | | | | |__________ "High" DMA Channel
| | | | | | |_______________ MIDI Port
| | | | | |__________________ Type of Card
| | | | |_____________________ DMA Channel
| | | |________________________ Interrupt
| | |_____________________________ Port Address
| |___________________________________ Environment Variable
|________________________________________ DOS Command
but, you don't need to put all the settings in (you can get away with just the PORT, IRQ, and DMA)
SirPeale:
...and just what kind of motherboard do you have?
peterpiper70:
Thanks for replying guys. My m/b is a pc chips board with as I say,on board sound,video & lan.
My autoexec.bat has two mentions of setblaster in it
One has `rem` in front of it and the other has not.
How can I be sure that I have installed the correct dos drivers for the soundcard?
The pci card that I bought I have not been able to install any at all as the drivers on the cd that came with it tell me I can only install them from windows!!
Any way round this?
I am as lost as ever despite your great help guys
regards
pete