Yes. My guess is that the ESS drivers are WDM or W9X drivers, not DOS / real-mode drivers. VDMSound or DOSBox is where I'd go to next to emulate the IRQ's, etc. of a real Sound Blaster. BTW, can you hear digital effects from Windows? Like the startup sound? or a random .wav file? If not, you've got …

Hello I recently bought a notebook Compaq Armada M300, and installed Windows98se, directX 8.1b and the latest driver from the Compaq website. It has one of these sound chip : ES1978, ES1920, ES1921, or ES978 AudioDrive (driver call it generally ESS M2E) --> i'll look this evening which one it is …