First post, by blackmasked
- Rank
- Newbie
Hi there
I have a really annoying issue with my Sound Blaster 64AWE ISA (CT4390). It randomly freezes up my machine while running Creative Plug and Play Configuration Manager at startup.
It is so bad that all I can do is hard reset. The odd thing is that it seems to be completely random whether it will start up or not.
I've tried few different ISA and PCI sound cards and they work fine which makes me think that maybe my AWE64 is a bit sick. However when the drivers decide to load everything works just fine. I've run DIAGNOSE.EXE multiple times without any issues. No conflicts, etc.
My autoexec.bat and config.sys setting are as follows:
AUTOEXEC.BAT
[code]
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\DOS;C:\UTILS\NC
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
GOTO %config%
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET SOUND=C:\DRIVERS\AWE64\SB16
SET CTCM=C:\DRIVERS\AWE64\CTCM
C:\DRIVERS\AWE64\SB16\AWEUTIL.COM /S
C:\DRIVERS\AWE64\SB16\MIXERSET.EXE /P /Q
[/code]
CONFIG.SYS
[code]
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=40
BUFFERS=40
LASTDRIVE=H
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRIVERS\AWE64\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
[/code]
My hardware config is as follows:
Gigabyte GA-586T2
P200 MMX
64MB RAM
S3 Savage4 32MB PCI
Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (CT4390)
I am really running out of ideas.
DOS build: Gigabyte GA-586T2, P200 MMX, 64MB RAM, Tseng ET6000 4MB, Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold, Roland SC-55mkII, Yamaha MU-80
98SE build: MSI MS-6163 Pro, PIII 650MHz, 256MB RAM, Voodoo3 3000, Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum, Yamaha SW1000XG