First post, by Syntho
When I boot into W95, then ‘restart’ in DOS mode from the Start menu, a typical setting of this:
Port: 220
IRQ: 5
DMA: 1
Is present and all my games work fine when launching from the DOS prompt. Or from within W95 too. BUT! When I boot directly into DOS 6.22 on the same machine, music works fine, but digital Sound FX won’t work. Curious, I went into the Descent game’s folder and ran its SETUP.EXE because it has a neat auto-detect sound card thing. When booting from DOS, it says:
Port:220
IRQ: 10
DMA: 0
I installed some SB driver packs in DOS and used the DIAGNOSE.EXE program to add a line to my AUTOEXEC.BAT file which now reads:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
But it hasn’t helped the problem.
I’m thinking there’s either manual jumpers on my card, or my BIOS has some setting somewhere that needs changing. I have Plug And Play Aware O/S turned off. There’s also PCI IRQ Priority Auto Setting set to Yes. If I switch that to No, I can alter 1st Available IRQ, 2nd Available IRQ, etc, but haven’t fooled with that yet.
What’s going on?
