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Toshiba 440CDT - Setting Sound in DOS

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First post, by Niezgodka

Posted on 2015-10-09, 00:08

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According to manual specifications, I have ESS688 Sound card.
Some games recognize it when I put

1SET BLASTER=A220 D1 I5 T4

But some don't, some players freezes.
I found ESS688 in driver's section:
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=112

But when I run ESSCFG.EXE, it shows me

1Unable to find AudioDrive ES1868-Based chip

How to set-up music completely with midi on that caomputer?
I'm in DOS 7.1

Reply 1 of 5, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-10-09, 00:15

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You're running the wrong driver. That package has drivers for a bunch of different ESS chips, and you ran the ES1868 driver.

Reply 2 of 5, by Sutekh94

Posted on 2015-10-09, 01:29

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The 440CDT doesn't use an ESS sound chip at all (the older 400-430 series Satellites used the ESS688), it uses a Yamaha OPL3-SAx. You can download the right sound driver here:

http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome? … Text=1073769770

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Reply 3 of 5, by Niezgodka

Posted on 2015-10-09, 01:49

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I can't see Dos drivers there. There is 3.xx lowest 🙁

Reply 4 of 5, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-10-09, 02:53

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The DOS drivers are bundled with the Windows drivers. When you install them, they also install the DOS drivers and configure them.
Weird thing that some games do work with that card with just the BLASTER line, though. YMF-71x/OPL3-SAX is PnP, so unless the BIOS has some PnP support I can't see how this would happen.

Reply 5 of 5, by Niezgodka

Posted on 2015-10-09, 21:03

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Would you be able to post Autoexec and config files after instalation? I have no Windows on my CDT 🙁

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