sound drivers for dos mame using spystyles boot cd Working now Thanks

[abispac]

just wondering if anyone knows how can i install an sb0240 audigy2 sb live card into my dos enviroment, i instaled with spystyles boot cd and the games start only if i use the -nosound option, at the installation pront i select the option 4 to install drivers for an audigy card but they dont seem to work, im working on a small project , a dedicated pacman and would like to use dos to have a faster boot . thanks for any help.

[BobA]

You will probably have to get an older card to find dos drivers.  My guess is that your sound card is too new to have dos drivers.

[tikbalang]

try these links:
http://easymamecab.mameworld.info/html/snddosdr.htm
http://easymamecab.mameworld.info/html/sndhelp.htm


also, at the bottom of this page, there is a patch for audigy2 cards so it can use audigy1 drivers.
http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay/

[abispac]

try these links:
http://easymamecab.mameworld.info/html/snddosdr.htm
http://easymamecab.mameworld.info/html/sndhelp.htm


also, at the bottom of this page, there is a patch for audigy2 cards so it can use audigy1 drivers.
http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay/

hope it works, thanks for the help

[abispac]

Thanks for the links, installed the audigy 1 drivers and patched with audigy 12 and i got the pc to detect the card and load drivers, even mame loads fine now, ecept for one problem, no sound comes out of the card, i got everything plug in correctly but still no luck, could it be a driver thing or do i have to modify something? thanks for any help

[tikbalang]

do you get the same behavior in other apps/games? you will have to experiment with the SB utilities yourself since i don't have much experience with SBPCI cards. search for my posts in this forum for general soundcard troubleshooting guide.

[esaelectrionics]

you may have to replace your motherboard to one that supports sound blaster PCI devices properly.
what motherboard are you using?, also The memory manager can sometimes cause conflicts.

[abispac]

I went to the flea market and bought a sb0200 sblive card, i tried the easymamecab drivers, and now i get a message that pci device not found here are my autoexec settings
SET BLASTER=A220 I10 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\DOSDRV
C:\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE
and the config
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
device=c:\DOS\himem.sys
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS NOVCPI
files=40
DOS=HIGH,UMB

And the motherboard Motherboard Name   Intel Maryville 2 D850EMV2
Im gettin guts with this dos project...

[tikbalang]

^^^^^

the troubleshooting steps with this new card would be more or less the same with the first one. maybe you don't need audigy12 with this one, but basically, both are in the SBLIVE series. i thought we were getting close with the sb0240? you only need to play with sbeset.exe and/or sbcfg.exe.

regarding your startup files, autoexec.bat looks ok as long as the BLASTER settings are matched with the hardware settings. use the SB utilities to find out. here's a short explanation on this:

http://www.rinkworks.com/apogee/s/6.4.2.shtml

config.sys looks fine too but i recommend taking out the SETVER line completely. in both files, make sure the files are present in their proper folders.


i googled your mobo and it looks like it has either one of these onboard soundchips:

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Creative SB PCI128 (Ensoniq ES5880) Sound Card
Intel 82801BA(M) ICH2 - AC'97 Audio Controller [B-4]

http://uploaded.fresh.co.il/2004/04/29/260202.txt

is onboard audio properly disabled in the BIOS? is PNP OS set to OFF in the BIOS?  if yours has the SBPCI128, why don't you use that instead?


here is a freeware info tool for DOS:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=78528.msg821401#msg821401

you can use that to probe your hardware.

[abispac]

everything looks fine ecept for the type of card i got t3 and should be t1 ,about the motherboard, it dosnt have onboard video or sound,im not at home at the moment by i recall the mb its a gateway pro 6000 or something like that, and about sbecfg, i realy dont know how to use that, i have use sbego and everything looks ok ecept that when i push play it looks like its playing but no sound comes out, the pc detects the card and it looks like its working but no sound comes out, i know the cables are ok and the sb02400 works since i start windows (i have 2 hds connected) and the sound starts right away, know if i fired sbeset it does nothing too. looks to me that may be something im missing, something small... ill kepp looking, thanks for the tips

[abispac]

working now, yeeeeeeea, it seem that i had some irqs issues and some autoexec problems ass well heres what worked for me
SET BLASTER=A220 I9 D1 H7 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=c:\sblive
c:\sblive\sbeinit.com
c:\sblive\audigy12.exe
Also i use the drivers for audigy 1 cards not the ones from easymamecab , the probably are the same but after i mess with the settings everything work ok, thanks alot for your help guys.