First post, by bjwil1991
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I recently upgraded my Windows 98SE machine from the K6-2/300 setup to a Socket 370 setup since some of the games I have don't work nicely with the K6-2/300 system.
I installed the appropriate drivers, however, MS-DOS games don't work since I don't see the drivers for MS-DOS for the sound card. The sound card is a VIA AC'97 that has Sound Blaster capability within the BIOS and the games just don't seem to detect it (mainly because the TSR driver for the sound card isn't there, or I have to guess where the TSR programs are). I had my Sound Blaster Blaster 16 WavEffects CT4170 installed, but the IRQ was wrong, no DMA, and Windows games won't detect the sound card (Rollercoaster Tycoon). The sound card's chipset last 4 digits are 686B.
Where should I start?
Edit: found an FTP site that has the drivers.
If anyone needs drivers for the VIA VT82C686A/686B/VT8231 southbridge chips, here's the FTP site: VIA Audio drivers
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