Sound will not work until you run the installation program successfully. Try to find out why it is crashing. You could try a CVS build, maybe it is a bug in DOSBox that has already been fixed.

Moe you might do well to read his post thoroughly 😉 His whole computer no longer plays any sound.

Anyway, my two cents: DOSBOX doesn't alter Windows directly since it's not installed, no drivers, no change in the register, etc. so uninstalling or removing it will make absolutely no difference.

What might have happened, is that your soundcard drivers didn't like DOSBOX's sound emulation. I had DOSBOX mess up my sound once too, and a reboot solved it - but other than that, I've never had a single issue with DOSBOX so the problem is mostly likely with either WinXP or your soundcard (including drivers).

Thanks for the reply (and actually reading 😕 )

So... Any advice on how to fix this? or am I basically screwed?

Easy: reinstall Windows XP if nothing else works. It might be that there's some obscure setting that has gone corrupt and nothing short of a reinstall will sort this out if you don't know where to find it.

Ah... I was hoping you wouldn't say that. 🤣. I guess thats the only option, though, since I've tried everything else.

Well, you been very helpful! Thanks a bunch for taking the time to answer my questions.