First post, by K15
Hi,
I'm hoping someone here might be able to help.
I have a Pentium III PC I'm trying to turn into a higher end DOS machine.
It originally came with a SB PCI soundcard. It didn't really work with DOS games very well. I had an AWE32 ISA card in an older computer and I tried that which seemed to work fine. Since I want that AWE32 to stay with that other computer, I bought an AWE64 value ISA card (model CT4520) from amazon.
I have windows 98SE installed, and the card is fully functional in windows, except I get "sound blaster 16 PnP" twice in device manager. One has drivers installed, the other shows up with a yellow question mark. However in DOS, I can only get soundFX to work, no music in any games. I've done hours of googling on this, I've tried various autoexec and config settings, I've tried running CTCM multiple times. I've manually playing with the windows resource settings. No matter what I do, I cannot get AWEUTIL to run. It says "Err012 AWE32 initialization failed" despite the fact it's an AWE64. And I get no music in games.
I tried updating the CT4520 firmware. No change.
When I run diagnose.exe, I can only get 8 bit and 16 bit sound to work, no synthesized music. I even made a DOS 6.22 boot disk, with CTCM, CTCU, AWEUTIL and DIAGNOSE on a different floppy. Even with plain DOS 6.22 running, I cannot get AWEUTIL to run. It still gives me that error.
I read about the MFBEN jumper. It's installed.
I tried different ISA slots.
I tried BIOS PnP OS enabled and disabled.
At this point I'm wondering if the card itself is bad. In that case I find it strange that it works fine in windows. I was hoping someone here could point to some more troubleshooting steps I could do.