First post, by GabrielKnight123
Hi all, I have two ESS AudioDrive sound cards that are working well except that when I change the volume it goes back to really loud no matter how many times I save the changes or redo im using the "speaker out" for head phones so not the line out and im using the sound cards in Dos 6.21 with the driver from the Vogons driver library "ES688 Audiodrive Full install for Dos", I tried many different drivers but they first off dont detect the card as the driver type. My cards have two ESS AudioDrive chips and the driver made a folder on C: called "ESSUTIL" but I installed the drivers from a directory I made called "688full" and both directories have these files:
ES968.COM
ESSCFG.EXE
ESSCFG.INI
ESSVOL.EXE
SETUP.EXE
SETVOL.EXE
Running one setvol.exe from either dir will update the Autoexec.bat with the new vol settings and rem the other out so I tried clearing the rem and had all the vol settings present and I get an error message:
"C:\>C:\ESSUTIL\SETVOL /XV:03 /XL:00 /XW:03 /XM:00 /XC:00 /XS:03 /XA:00
ES1688+968 PnP Sound Card not present or ES968.COM not installed"
C:\>C:\688full\setvol /XV:03 /XL:00 /XW:03 /XM:00 /XC:00 /XS:03 /XA:00
ES1688+968 PnP Sound Card not present or ES968.COM not installed
I have the file ES968.com but I dont know how to load it in either the autoexec.bat or the config.sys do I use "DEVICEHIGH=C:\688full\ES968.com" in autoexec.bat or something else? If this file ES968.COM does not fix the volume problem is there something else to try?