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DOS Soundcard Drivers for Presario 5360?
Hello,
If anyone can point me towards a way to run some kind of DOS drivers for my soundcard (I have just the on-board card which came with the Presario 5360). I have tried using generic Soundblaster drivers, but it says it cannot find the soundcard. I assume it is an ESS Solo 1938 like the website talks about. Is there a way to use the Windows 98 drivers directly in DOS? I have set up a DOS 6.22 drive and boot directly to it using System Commander. Everything works fine, but I cannot get the sound going. Any help would be appreciated... Tim |
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Tim ,
go to http://www.esstech.com/techsupp/drivers.shtm#pci under the heading audio isa audiodrive there is a dos installer for the audiodrive and the 1938 chipset . hope this helps , terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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Normally, the DOS game or app must supply the drivers. Do you have a SET
BLASTER line in your autoexec.bat file? You need one to tell the game/app the address and interrupt of the sound hardware for Soundblaster emulation in a pure DOS setting. If the line is not there, right-click on the autoexec.bat file in the C:\ directory and select EDIT from the menu. Add the following line anywhe SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 Then save the file, reboot and see if the sound hardware works in DOS. HH "Tim" wrote in message om... Hello, If anyone can point me towards a way to run some kind of DOS drivers for my soundcard (I have just the on-board card which came with the Presario 5360). I have tried using generic Soundblaster drivers, but it says it cannot find the soundcard. I assume it is an ESS Solo 1938 like the website talks about. Is there a way to use the Windows 98 drivers directly in DOS? I have set up a DOS 6.22 drive and boot directly to it using System Commander. Everything works fine, but I cannot get the sound going. Any help would be appreciated... Tim |
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Did you add the SET BLASTER line to your autoexec.bat file???
HH "Tim" wrote in message om... lid (terry_b17) wrote in message ... Tim , go to http://www.esstech.com/techsupp/drivers.shtm#pci under the heading audio isa audiodrive there is a dos installer for the audiodrive and the 1938 chipset . hope this helps , terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. Hello, I downloaded the file: ESS_DOS_config.zip and I ran the program ESSCFG, but it says that it did not detect a soundcard, so it did not go any further... Remember, I do have an on-board (on the motherboard) soundcard. Is this the right file I should have been shooting for? Tim |
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Yes I did in previous trials of everything that I did. For example:
AUTOEXEC.BAT SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 SET CTSYN=C:\DOSDRV C:\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM rem C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE CONFIG.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS NOVCPI DOS=HIGH,UMB And it says that it cannot find the PCI card. I don't actually have a PCI card, of course, though... However, when I ran the ESSCFG program below, it wouldn't even set up my autoexec or anything because it said it could not find the soundcard. Have you ever gotten this kind of thing to work? "HH" wrote in message ... Did you add the SET BLASTER line to your autoexec.bat file??? HH "Tim" wrote in message om... lid (terry_b17) wrote in message ... Tim , go to http://www.esstech.com/techsupp/drivers.shtm#pci under the heading audio isa audiodrive there is a dos installer for the audiodrive and the 1938 chipset . hope this helps , terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. Hello, I downloaded the file: ESS_DOS_config.zip and I ran the program ESSCFG, but it says that it did not detect a soundcard, so it did not go any further... Remember, I do have an on-board (on the motherboard) soundcard. Is this the right file I should have been shooting for? Tim |
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Granted, but the onboard ESS audio is accessed via the PCI bus/controller.
You might be better off buying a $10 PCI sound card that comes with DOS drivers. C-Media has several 8738 chip cards for around that price. Try he http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...roperty&DEPA=1 HH "Tim" wrote in message om... Yes I did in previous trials of everything that I did. For example: AUTOEXEC.BAT SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 SET CTSYN=C:\DOSDRV C:\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM rem C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE CONFIG.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS NOVCPI DOS=HIGH,UMB And it says that it cannot find the PCI card. I don't actually have a PCI card, of course, though... However, when I ran the ESSCFG program below, it wouldn't even set up my autoexec or anything because it said it could not find the soundcard. Have you ever gotten this kind of thing to work? "HH" wrote in message ... Did you add the SET BLASTER line to your autoexec.bat file??? HH "Tim" wrote in message om... lid (terry_b17) wrote in message ... Tim , go to http://www.esstech.com/techsupp/drivers.shtm#pci under the heading audio isa audiodrive there is a dos installer for the audiodrive and the 1938 chipset . hope this helps , terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. Hello, I downloaded the file: ESS_DOS_config.zip and I ran the program ESSCFG, but it says that it did not detect a soundcard, so it did not go any further... Remember, I do have an on-board (on the motherboard) soundcard. Is this the right file I should have been shooting for? Tim |
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