First post, by HellFire376
I'm working on a retro gaming pc from around late 99 and I'm have no problems getting everything working except for the sound card, a vortex 2. In Windows 98 SE, I got the sound card working once the other day so I can confirm it's functional, but since then I haven't gotten it to work. If I use the regular vortex 2041 drivers with no modifications, while booting into windows it will say this in a DOS screen for a few seconds until booting into windows with no sound at all. Even the audio drivers without the DOS mode support do not have any sound inside windows 98. I've also tried tweaking a few BIOS settings but no luck, partially because I think I have no idea what some of these settings do. (I haven't bothered to try Windows XP since I'm aware that the driver has only basic support) Any help would be greatly appreciated!
"C:\> SET BLASTER = A220 I5 D3 T4
C:\>LH C:\WINDOWS\AU30DOS.COM
VORTEX DOS AUDIO DRIVER (2.007) Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Aureal Semiconductor
PCI AUDIO PRO enabled at Ports 220-22Fh, Interrupt 5, DMA 3, Joystick 201h.
ERROR #11: CODEC failure. Driver not loaded"
If it helps here's the specs of the machine:
Motherboard - EPOX EP-7KXA with KX133 VIA based chipset
CPU - AMD Slot A K7
GPU - Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro (Geforce DDR) using Nvidia 21.83 Drivers for Win 9x
RAM - 256MB PC100
Sound Card - Aureal Vortex 2 (AU8830A2)
ofc some IDE drives and floppy drive
and eventually planning to add a Realtek 10/100 Ethernet card and an Ultra100 IDE PCI card
EDIT: I ended up fixing the issue, what I needed to do was reserve IRQ5 and DMA1 to Legacy ISA mode rather that PCI PnP