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SB16 driver woes...

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First post, by commodorejohn

Posted on 2011-10-03, 03:17

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Okay, I've got a nice little 486DX/2-66 system that I was delighted to find came with a real, honest-to-God Sound Blaster 16! Not bad, considering the seller hadn't even advertised it as such. Problem now is, I don't have any of the software for it, and the question of Internet driver availability has somehow managed to get even worse than the last time I tried to find something. Pay sites and "driver assistant" spyware as far as the eye can see...

Does anybody know where I can get DOS drivers for the ISA SB16 (CT2230)? And while we're at it, anybody have any idea where to find drivers for the companion CR-563-B CD-ROM drive?

Reply 1 of 5, by MaxWar

Posted on 2011-10-03, 03:42

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The most extensive driver collection of the internet for creative cards is right here at vogons, enjoy :

Creative Labs Sound Blaster ISA Cards' Drivers Collection (Old Thread)

Reply 2 of 5, by commodorejohn

Posted on 2011-10-03, 03:55

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Much appreciated! I did find unformat information on the hard drive and managed to nab the existing drivers, but it's good to have a fresher source.

Reply 3 of 5, by dosquest

Posted on 2011-10-03, 04:15

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Oh, tell me about sb16 drivers, try getting them to work on a windows98se computer.

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Reply 4 of 5, by Jolaes76

Posted on 2011-10-03, 08:53

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Win98 should detect the SB16 on install. SB16 non-PnP cards which were added later must be re-detected in "Control Panel \ Add New Hardware Wizard". With non-PnP cards, you might face a resource conflict; in this case you must find free resources for the card.

I do not know if your card is truly PnP, from the schematics it seems you cannot assign a base IRQ by jumpers, though you can select I/O address and MPU address...

The latest Creative drivers are rev.16, you might want to install those instead of the Microsoft bundle if you want to use other Creative software.

If the card is PnP, you will need the CTCM utility (Creative Configuration Manager) in DOS. So you will have lines like this in the autoexec.bat:

SET SOUND=C:\SB16 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 SET CTCM=C:\CTCM C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q C:\CTCM\CTCU /S […]
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SET SOUND=C:\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTCM=C:\CTCM
C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S
C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q
C:\CTCM\CTCU /S

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Reply 5 of 5, by commodorejohn

Posted on 2011-10-03, 20:19

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Well, I've copied the install files to the install disk, but it's giving me a bunch of runaround about "remove disk from A: and insert it in B:" (there's only one floppy drive) and then complains "no suitable installation disk found." Any idea what the hey it's looking for?

Update: It just doesn't like FreeDOS but won't say as much, it installed fine from MS-DOS and the sound card now works just fine.

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