1. What brand/model motherboard are you using?

2. How are you trying to run DOS games? From within Windows 98 or booting directly to DOS or rebooting into DOS mode?

3. What drivers are you using? These should be the correct ones:
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … =49&menustate=0

This forum is for Windows games on modern systems as in the pinned message at the top of this forum:

This forum is for running old windows games on NEW (supported) versions of Windows

Ask old hardware and old OS questions here: Marvin, the Paranoid Android

Moved to Marvin -> Sound.

cyclone3d wrote:

1. What brand/model motherboard are you using?

Where can I find that information? The computer boots too quickly for me to see the opening bios screen.

cyclone3d wrote:

2. How are you trying to run DOS games? From within Windows 98 or booting directly to DOS or rebooting into DOS mode?

Any method is fine for me. I do have some older DOS games, like Mechwarrior 2, which can only be run from boot disks and DOS. It's for this reason that I'd like it to work with all methods.

cyclone3d wrote:

3. What drivers are you using? These should be the correct ones:
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … =49&menustate=0

Thankyou, I installed this. Using the game 'Heretic' as an example, the game sound began to work in DOS. Unfortunately the music was still the lower quality version and not MIDI. Still, good progress.
The default sound blaster settings in the 'setup' of Heretic is set as A220, IRQ 5, and DMA1. Seeming as the sound is working, I'm assuming this means they are correct values?
The music in that setup only asks for A, which I set as sound blaster 220. I'll mess around with it now and see what I can get working.
Any more advice would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Oh dear, the computer doesn't want to 'restart in DOS mode' anymore. It hangs on a black screen with a flashing white underscore.
And most of the games don't have sound when playing in Windows (even if they did before).

Bump, still need help. 🙁

Do you still hang when restarting in dos mode?
if you reset the computer will it then continue to go into dos or does it go back into windows?
when you are in dos if you type edit autoexe.bat you should see the line set blaster= This is what the sound card is set to use.
If they are work they are correct, but setup doesn't check if it conflicts with other hardware so defaults my not be ideal in your setup.

also Warcraft 2, even the shareware version is pretty good for testing sound as you can do it in the setup program, unlike heretic where you have to start the game to test