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First post, by Richy1985

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Greetings everyone.

I recently created a dual boot system consisting of Windows XP Professional & MS DOS 6.22 so that I could play old ms dos based pc games. I’ve managed to get everything working except for the sound. I have no ISA slots, only a PCI slot, and after conducting hours upon hours of research I’ve discovered that the Ensoniq ES1370 PCI or Creative AudioPCI ES1370 SB PCI 64/128 is apparently the best PCI card to use as it offers excellent sound support in real mode MS DOS.

I have installed a Creative Labs Ensoniq AudioPCI 3000 ES1370 Sound Card and have downloaded the DOS drivers from this site and have followed the instructions in the readme file to the letter, yet I still cannot get sound to work in DOS. I receive the following error: “PCI device detect failed; Device not found. PCI audio driver NOT loading.” I am at my wits end now, why can’t I get sound playback?

Thank you.

Reply 2 of 3, by gerwin

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Recent mainboards don't support the ISA-SBPro emulation which PCI cards like the Ensoniq AudioPCI use. That may be a cause. But the error message seems to indicate the card is not detected by the driver at all. Maybe the BIOS has put the card at odd resources (IRQ)?

BTW. AudioPCI is not 'the best', if only for the fact that it requires EMM386 for legacy emulation in DOS.

If you had a later 'Creative Labs' version of the AudioPCI, you could have tried MPXplay to directly interface with the soundcard in DOS.

--> ISA Soundcard Overview // Doom MBF 2.04 // SetMul

Reply 3 of 3, by Richy1985

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I'm not claiming that the AudioPCI is "the best" - I'm saying that some people have claimed it is the best PCI card to use for DOS.

Anyway, after more research I have added a few lines to my config.sys file
and have changed the IRQ to 10, and I now have working sound.

I won't use DOSBox because I'm sick & tired of the choppy performance.

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