It's not really like you got some weird or obscure components in your build, so I find it weird that you haven't been able to locate any working drivers for Windows 95. Anyways, for your build I'd recommend you getting a Sound Blaster 16 for sound. If you'd like to go really cheap though, you can get a C-Media CMI8738 card of some kind, which offers decent compatibility all around, but I'd really get a Sound Blaster 16, if I were you. For video I'm not sure what to recommend, but I do know for sure that the drivers for the S3 Trio64 are pretty easy to locate. 😀

Strahssis wrote:

It's not really like you got some weird or obscure components in your build, so I find it weird that you haven't been able to locate any working drivers for Windows 95. Anyways, for your build I'd recommend you getting a Sound Blaster 16 for sound. If you'd like to go really cheap though, you can get a C-Media CMI8738 card of some kind, which offers decent compatibility all around, but I'd really get a Sound Blaster 16, if I were you. For video I'm not sure what to recommend, but I do know for sure that the drivers for the S3 Trio64 are pretty easy to locate. 😀

Thank you for replying.
I think the video card and sound card previously belonged to an OEM computer, so they may need a specific driver to run them. I have tried all the drivers I can find online, but non of which worked.
Sound Blaster 16 is a good choice, and my friend suggested me today to go for a AWE64 Gold, not OEM edition, which one you think is better? I can find one around 40USD, is that a good price?

That explains the problem, I guess. For DOS and Windows 95 I'd recommend you to go for a SB16 instead of an AWE64, though I'm far from an expert on sound cards. You can get a SB16 CQM-variant for very little money, OPL3-variants on the other hand tend to be quiet a bit more expensive. I've heard an AWE32 is also fine for Windows 95, but I do not know much about those honestly. 😜

CQM-variants: https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ISA-CREATIVE … RHEiW:rk:1:pf:0
https://www.ebay.com/itm/CT4170-Sound-Blaster … ayjIG:rk:1:pf:0

OPL3-variants: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Sound-Blast … bMzf:rk:23:pf:0
https://www.ebay.com/itm/CT2800-CREATIVE-LABS … bp75w:rk:2:pf:0

You should probably so some research of your own about which model SB16 you want; they might all be a SB16, but all they sound pretty differently from each other. I ended up choosing the CT2800 myself. 😀

OK, I will look at the specs for the SB16s. I will be using MIDI for some of DOS games, I have Roland MT-32 and SC-88, do you know which variant of the SB16 does MIDI better?