First post, by insanitor
I’m trying to install and use my Yamaha/Labway model A151-A00 in MS-DOS.
Strange thing though:
The Unisound driver does work but when I run the Duke Nukem 3D sound test, it’s as if there is no separation between the left and right speakers. This problem occurs when the test of the sound goes to the left and right channels. When this happens the sound itself has slightly less volume. It’s as if it’s working in mono and not stereo. Maybe it’s using a special sound effect like reverb? If I go into Windows 2000, I tried playing a CD and using the volume control does work when shifting to the left and right speakers so the problem is somewhere else.
Here is the strange thing though:
I cannot get the original Yamaha sound card drivers installed and working no matter what I do. I always get an I/O error. If I do not get a WSS I/O error I’ll get a SB check failed error depending on what settings I try. The manual says to change the IRQ and DMA settings because they are incorrect but I’ve tried all the options and none work. I’ve tried disabling all devices in my BIOS and that doesn’t work. I tried IRQ and DMA forwarding and that won’t work either. I tried putting only the sound card in the ISA slot and no other card in my remaining ISA slot. I tried the latest driver and the one that comes on the original CD. There are so many options everywhere that I can’t be sure that I came close to the right combination. Or, if there is a right combination.
The only thing I have not tried is blowing up the card with a nuclear warhead but I don’t have one.
If I install my Sound Blaster CT1740 and use the Unisound driver it works fine.
If I cannot resolve this problem I’ll have no choice but to get a different sound card and try my luck that way.
UPDATE:
I forced installed the driver that comes on the installation CD.
When MS-DOS starts, it says this:
No configuration manager. Perform configuration manually using SETUPSA .
SAx Sound system is not found on CM
OPL3 – SA3C setup utility 2.09
WSS base: 0X530 IRQ:5 PDRQ:0 CDRQ:1
SB base: 0X220 IRQ:5 DMA:1
MPU base: 0X330 IRQ:5
ADLIB Base: 0X388 CTRL base: 0X370 Joystick Base 0X201.
Configuration is correctly finished!!
And after all of that, I still have the same speaker problem except the volume is so high my roof caved in on me. And if I run the setupsa program I get the “SB check failed” error message.
When I go, the smiles and the laughs go with me.
