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First post, by JayAlien

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Hi, I have a 386 with a SB Pro 2.0 CT1600.
The volume on the card is very low when I boot the PC, however I can get to a normal volume by firing up \sbpro\sbp-mix.exe and setting all the sliders to max. However these settings are lost on reboot.

Is there a way to make these volume adjustments less volatile, or perhaps a way to set the volume during boot?
Thanks
J

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Reply 1 of 3, by wbahnassi

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Yes. If you install the SBPro disks, it will register also an SBP-MIX.EXE entry in AUTOEXEC.BAT to init the mixer to good values. You can also add it yourself. To figure out the switches I think you can run SBP-MIX /?
It will list all options and switches, including the "silent mode" switch (IIRC it was /S) which will set mixer values on the command line without the UI. Just gather all the settings and build the line to put it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Reply 2 of 3, by Gmlb256

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As the above post stated, a mixer executable should be registered in AUTOEXEC.BAT after installing the software that came with SBPro2 floppy disks. In my case it was SBP-SET.EXE and that one was entirely done with command line switches.

An example:

C:\SBPRO\SBP-SET.EXE /M:10 /VOC:15 /FM:15 /CD:0 /X:0 /LINE:0 /ANFI:OFF /DNFI:ON /Q

Should be put after setting the BLASTER and SOUND environment variables. The /Q command line switch is for silent or quiet mode.

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Reply 3 of 3, by JayAlien

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That did it, thanks both. Not sure how I installed the software but skipped this step.
I re-ran the installation.
It's all working great now!

386sx25 SBP2 2M
P75(486) SB16 8M
P133 S3 Vir DX A64g 32M
P233MMX R128Pro A64 64M
Pii400 TNT2 Live! 128M
P3-1G V5 M80 256M
P3-1.4G R8500 A1 256M
A3200 9700Pro A2 512M
X6800 X850XT A2ZS 1G
E8600 X1950XTX Xfi 2G
QX9650 3870 Xfi 2G
i7-975 GTX570 Xfi 3GB