1. Introduction 2. System configuration tested 3. Contents of this ZIP file 4. Installation instructions 1. Introduction ------------------ This is a complete sample installation to get your SoundBlaster Live working in MSDOS 6.22. It includes all the DOS driver files needed, as well as a sample CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and some FAQs that I have collected during my search on the net. The DOS driver files are taken from the DOSDRV directory which is created by Windows 98 during the installation of the SBlive drivers. 2. System configuration tested ---------------------------------- My system configuration: - Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz running at 978MHz - Motherboard Asus A7V with Via KT133 chipset - 40GB IBM HD (Master) at Promise UDMA100 IDE controller (build onto Asus board) - Leadtek GeForce2 MX AGP graphics card - TV card Hauppauge WinTV with Brooktree controller - Actima DVD rom drive on IDE 0 (Master) - Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32 on IDE 1 (Master) - SoundBlaster Live! Valu (taken from Dell OEM PC system) As you can see, quite a lot of different stuff. 3. Contents of this ZIP file --------------------------------- You will find 3 directories in this ZIP-file: DOSDRV contains all DOS drivers and utilities, e.g. SBEINIT.COM, SBESET.EXE, SBECFG.EXE, SBEGO.EXE It also includes the file CTSYN.INI which usually resides in your Win98 folder and which is required by SBEINIT.com and the sample wavetable file DEFAULT.ECW which CTSYN.INI refers to. I have modified the INI-file to point to this directory DOSDRV for the wavetable. BOOTFILE contains a sample AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS which work with my system. Note that the environment variable CTSYN (see AUTOEXEC.BAT) is set to the directory DOSDRV which now holds CTSYN.INI (see description for DOSDRV above). HOWTO contains one textfile that is just a collection of different articles on this topic found in various discussion forums and message boards. Read this file with NotePad and word wrap switched on. There is also one good explanation on how to resolve interrupt conflicts by modifying your BIOS settings. This is an HTML file from the DELL support homepage. You can view it with any web browser. 4. Installation instructions -------------------------------- Now ... what do you have to do? Follow these 3 steps: a. Unpack this ZIP file into a new folder, e.g. C:\DRV\CREATIVE b. Modify your system files (config.sys, autoexec.bat) according to the samples from the directory BOOTFILE. The sample bootfiles use the drive and directory structure given in a. one step above. You need to modify them if you have unpacked to a different location. You also need to modify the path of the entry "waveset" in the file CTSYN.INI accordingly. Keep in mind that - You need the line DEVICE=EMS386... from the config.sys, i.e. you do need an expanded memory manager, and you need the original MicroSoft EMM386.EXE ! Qemm, 386Max or any other 3rd party manager will not work! - Above line may NOT contain the parameter NOEMS! EMS is needed by the SBlive driver! - All first 4 lines from the autoexec.bat sample have to be placed in that exact order at the beginning of your own autoexec.bat file! Load all other drivers (smartdrive, mouse, ...) AFTER these 4 lines! c. Reboot your machine and test your soundcard using SBEGO.EXE from the directory DOSDRV. If you experience any problems such as no sound, interrupt conflicts or else, try to modify the settings for your driver using SBESET.EXE, or modify your BIOS settings following the instructions given in the HTML file. Have fun!! magicpio 27. October 2002