Are you sure the card is functional? It should be detected by Windows 98 at startup, either as Multimedia Audio Device or Unknown device.
If that didn't happen, something is wrong with the card (didnt get intialised).

Try placing it in another PCI slot.

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If it is detected, try manual driver installation.
Select the card from device manager and import the INI file into windows.

Sound works fine in windows, but not in dos (be that boot straight to dos or while within windows.
Some dos games (such as doom) work fine in WinXP with sound (though music is only general midi and the music lags, soundfx are fine though).

It seems that you are missing either the Blaster environment variable or some ES1370 specific one in your Config.sys / Autoexec.bat .

The driver from the vogons driver page had an included autoexec, and I used that (adjusted for irq/dma, though I did test it before I changed as well).

Try to reinstall and go trough every step manually.

Yeah i've spent the better half of a day on this.
Re-installing everything, same output.

Was hoping that someone who had one of these knew a trick or something.
Ready to bin the pc now 🤣.

(I'm not actually going to do that 🤣)

Yeah I know how you feel 😁
But from my experience it was usually something very simple that I missed accidentally.

Just like the time i tried to set up that Terratec Maestro 3296, I thought it was possessed, but a simple -O command in the startup solved it (override settings).

Check your BIOS PNP settings. I remember having to turn PNP off to get this card to work properly in DOS.

PNP is off already (you do mean 'pnp os' right? then yes that option is off.

Try this driver: ftp://89.179.20.136/oldftp/DRV&BIOS/Sound/ENS … NIQ/ES1370/DOS/

Working for me with a Creative 5507 on an i875 based motherboard.

I did a write up on this card a few years ago, maybe it's helpful: Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

All the drivers are attached.

Thanks for the link. Found out the Creative 5507 stutter some times in DOS, so I desided to try one on my Audigy 2 ZS cards (using Audigy driver and patch) that use the same driver model. Found out that the MT-32 mapping utility from the Ensoniq driver works with the Audigy and the stuttering are also gone.

But the main problem here is that the DOS driver for the ES1371 and ES1373 won't work with the ES1370 (Creative 5507).

Kamerat wrote on 2015-02-10, 19:06:

Try this driver: ftp://89.179.20.136/oldftp/DRV&BIOS/Sound/ENS … NIQ/ES1370/DOS/

Working for me with a Creative 5507 on an i875 based motherboard.

Does anyone have a copy of this driver? I have found DOS drivers for 1371+ but not 1370 specifically.

Found it. Attaching it here.