Ahh, the joys of using "Plug and Pray" hardware in DOS, I remember those well from back in the day.

In the Award BIOS, there's usually a menu called "Integrated Peripherals". From there, you should be able to disable the onboard parallel and serial ports which will free up the relevant IRQ values, if that's what you're after.

As for the DMA conflict, if you have Windows 98 installed, you can check what's taking up DMA 5 using Start > Programs > Accessories > System Information > Hardware Resources > DMA. There is probably a way to check this in pure DOS as well, but I don't recall it off hand.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2020-02-05, 07:43:

Ahh, the joys of using "Plug and Pray" hardware in DOS, I remember those well from back in the day.

In the Award BIOS, there's usually a menu called "Integrated Peripherals". From there, you should be able to disable the onboard parallel and serial ports which will free up the relevant IRQ values, if that's what you're after.

As for the DMA conflict, if you have Windows 98 installed, you can check what's taking up DMA 5 using Start > Programs > Accessories > System Information > Hardware Resources > DMA. There is probably a way to check this in pure DOS as well, but I don't recall it off hand.

Thanks I will check integrated peripherals. Might help from there. Does setting "PnP OS" Enabled/Disabled do anything since I'm running true DOS 6.22?
Ik have no 98 or 95 installed... I want the true DOS experience 😀

Mentalbass wrote on 2020-02-05, 07:59:

Does setting "PnP OS" Enabled/Disabled do anything since I'm running true DOS 6.22?

IIRC, setting this to "No" will make the BIOS init the card and assign it the resources it deems to be free, instead of waiting for the OS to do it. Not sure how that interacts with CTCM and CTCU to be honest, since I use a non-PnP Opti card nowadays.

What I do know is that you want the following values for maximum compatibility, if the relevant resources are free of course:

1SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6

I'll let someone who actually has a SB16 chime in on how to set up CTCM/CTCU in order to make the card use those resources.

There's no conflict, it is by design. The Vibra16XV can not use 16-bit DMAs, so low and high DMA channels are the same (or at least either 1 or 3). BUILD engine games like Duke3D and Blood are known to not work with such a configuration and you have to select SB Pro mode in these games.

You can live with that constraint or replace the card.

^ oh that explains it!
thanks for the heads up

derSammler wrote on 2020-02-05, 08:55:

There's no conflict, it is by design. The Vibra16XV can not use 16-bit DMAs, so low and high DMA channels are the same (or at least either 1 or 3). BUILD engine games like Duke3D and Blood are known to not work with such a configuration and you have to select SB Pro mode in these games.

You can live with that constraint or replace the card.

Great ! That explains the D1 H1 setting
I really dont mind playing Duke/Redneck Rampage/Blood etc with Sb pro or SB 2.0 set. If it works it's good 😀
But how do I make Duke3d or Blood or any game that demands High DMA to work then. Because when in Setup choosing SB Pro or less still asks for a high DMA value.

If you choose SB pro or Soundblaster 2.0/compatible it still wants to know high DMA setting.
How did you "Bypassed" this for these sort games?

I'll let someone who actually has a SB16 chime in on how to set up CTCM/CTCU in order to make the card use those resources.

Thanks !!

Mentalbass wrote on 2020-02-05, 09:37:

But how do I make Duke3d or Blood or any game that demands High DMA to work then. Because when in Setup choosing SB Pro or less still asks for a high DMA value.

Yeah, the setup is a bit odd there. When you select Sound Blaster and continue with using the settings, it will ask you some more questions. Select "8-bit mixing" to make it not use the high DMA.

derSammler wrote on 2020-02-05, 10:01:

Mentalbass wrote on 2020-02-05, 09:37:

But how do I make Duke3d or Blood or any game that demands High DMA to work then. Because when in Setup choosing SB Pro or less still asks for a high DMA value.

Yeah, the setup is a bit odd there. When you select Sound Blaster and continue with using the settings, it will ask you some more questions. Select "8-bit mixing" to make it not use the high DMA.

I'm thankfull for knowledge in this forum!

Why didn't i think of that........

Thanks!