I'm trying to make use of the essinit.bat but it doesn't seem to do anything on my system. Pciset runs and seems to set the values, but when I check with essolo.com nothing has changed. I am using an SIS530 motherboard (a GA-5smm) which has the 1938s built in so I wondered if that was the problem, …

I have an SC-55mkII with a dead MIDI in port on the rear. The front port works. I ran the MIDI test as described in the service manual and get an NG for the 422 readout. The manual points to either the MIDI connector itself or one of two ICs to look at. Is there a resource which could help me …

I have a K6-2+ system using a Gigabyte GA-5smm board with a built in ESS 1938S PCI sound card and an SB16 CT2230. (Explanation of why is down at the bottom) . I currently have them both going with a Config.sys menu. One menu option loads the ESS DOS drivers at A220 I5 D1 and doesn't execute any SB16 …

Is this the single cycle DMA bug? https://youtu.be/gYHvWLrsF-4 I ask because though I assumed it is, various people here have said it isn't that bad or is preferable to X, y, or z, but this is clearly awful. This is a ct2230 btw. I can get this to work fine by using my on mobo ESS Solo card instead …

You mentioned other threads so you've probably seen this one: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=52551 That's more about quality than volume, which doesn't seem to be your issue. But there are some driver patches attached on the second page which might be worth trying. Failing that, maybe …

Testing out a few games today, I was getting some awful sounds out of my SB16. Epic Pinball - the shareware/Android only version - sounds bad, something I know others have dealt with in the past and there are a few threads on it. Then I found that Galactix was sounding bad, and then the Apogee …

I don't know to be honest. But maybe there's an IRQ conflict? IRQ 2/9 might be used by both ACPI and MPU-401. And EGA/VGA sometimes (retrace thing). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_request_(PC_architecture) MIDI port 330h might also conflict with ethernet cards? Edit: Maybe you can manually …

I am working with an integrated ESS1938 on a Gigabyte GA-5sMM board. I have the correct DOS drivers installed. I've actually tried different ones, both from Phil's Computer Lab and the Vogons library as well. I have a gameport->MIDI cable on the gameport and can get MIDI out to my Sound Canvas in …

I'm a new user of this very nice utility and I have a few questions I have been unable to get a good answer on by searching around the internet. I am running a K6-2+. Do I understand correctly that this CPU has an L1 and an L2 cache on-die, meaning that the motherboard cache functions as an L3? If …