First post, by Ultrax
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I've got a Sound Blaster Vibra 16S in my Compaq Presario 425 AIO 486DX (Overdrive, for that 486DX2 50 MHZ POWER 😜 ) system running Windows 3.1/DOS 6.22.
I tried reinstalling the drivers, no change.
FM sound works flawlessly, however, digital sounds (like the CHIMES sound in 3.1, for example) do not work. When I enter the Sound menu in Control Panel, all the options are grayed out, and when I open a WAV file, it doesn't play (tells me something about a driver or sound card - need to attempt to open a wav file to see what the message says.)
However, digital sound works in DOS games, like DN3D (I know, more of a Pentium game, but runs acceptable on this DX2. I like cranking the 486 to the limit, 🤣) I can hear the voice samples and digital sound effects.
Previously, this computer had an Avance sound card in it, which had drivers, so I'm wondering if there's a driver conflict? I uninstalled the Avance Sound System driver, and that didn't do anything. I'll try uninstalling the Avance "OPL3" and other Avance drivers to see if that helps.
And one more interesting thing to note - upon startup of Win 3.1, it gives me crap in an error message saying:
"Sound Blaster 16 ERROR Incorrect MIDIPORT setting in system.ini file"
Could this have something to do with it too? Aside from this digital audio issue, the sound card behaves normally, so I wonder why it would bring that up.
If anyone has any ideas, that would be greatly appreciated! 😁
Ultrax
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