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No dos sound/music with SBLive 5.1! PLEASE HELP

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Seyba

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No matter what I've tried, I have never been able to get any sound out of my Soundblaster Live 5.1 card in DOS. My SB16 emulation drivers says it is installed fine, and there are no IRQ/blah conflicts.

I've tried moving it from PCI slot to PCI slot. Did nothing. I've tried automatic settings in System setup, nothing. Also have tried manually trying different IRQ, DMA settings. Nothing. When I am starting up DOS, I do see it run and there aren't any error messages. If I go into DOS, and run "sbego" (file that checks if it is running, in programfiles/creative/sblive/dosdrv) and gives an error message saying "Error: Is SB Emulation enabled ???"

I've tried so much stuff, and nothing has ever worked. I really want to be able to play old games with sound and music. I've tried asking everywhere (YES, including the 'helpful' Creative techs) and have gotton no where.

Please help me, anandtech is my only hope.
 
What I would do is test it out in another system. If it doesn't work there also, then you know its something weird with the card.

Since I do not own any creative labs products myself, this is all the insight I can give you...
 
Um.. everything. Warcraft2, Daggerfall, Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Nothing.

Sbego (creative's test program to see if it is working) gives an error.
 
Well, I've gotten Daggerfall and Arena (the earlier game) to work under Windows98 with my SBLive!Value. It took me, seriously, about 36 hours of work to do this. So... patience, grasshopper. Even if the board is OK, and you get sound, you'll need to deal with archaic conventional memory issues later.

First of all, how are going into DOS? Are you using a DOS window, or rebooting into it? I found the window method more effective in my case. Second, what does your autoexec.bat look like? This is the relevant part of mine:

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

The first line is probably the only one which would change for you. I don't remember all of the syntax anymore, but A is the memory address, D is the DMA channel, and I is the IRQ for the SB emulation. I also recall that the DOS driver, sbeinit.com and it's related files, didn't come with the recent driver package from Creative. I found them somewhere on the Net after Creative said they couldn't help me.

We'll start with that - tell me how it works.
 
I'm rebooting into DOS. Although I still get nothing in a windowed dos prompt, too.

I see that in my autoexec.bat, when I installed my drivers for my SB, there's a "DOS drivers" checkmark, so obviously it installs them. I think.

I'm also going to PM this to you, hope you don't mind. I don't want to miss this.
 
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