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86Box Windows 98 Soundblaster 16 PnP Issues

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Hi,
I've installed Windows 98 quickinstall edition on 86Box using this tutorial https://catskull.net/use-86box-for-windows-98-gaming.html, but my audio isn't working. There's no audio device in my windows 98 taskbar, I can't play sample sounds, and if I run an application it doesn't play audio. Under 'device manager' it shows my SB16, but it says 'This device is causing a resource conflict (Code 15).' (image linked below). I've also installed the SB16 PnP drivers using the iso from vogonsdrivers (Sound_Blaster_16_Value_PnP) and restarted my system to no avail. This is the hardware I'm using:

[3dfx Voodoo3 3500 SI]
bilinear = 1
chromakey = 1
dithersub = 1
dacfilter = 0
render_threads = 2

[General]
emu_build_num = 7600
sound_gain = 4
vid_renderer = qt_software
video_filter_method = 0
video_fullscreen_scale = 3

[Machine]
cpu_family = pentium2_deschutes
cpu_multi = 3
cpu_speed = 200000000
cpu_use_dynarec = 1
fpu_type = internal
machine = prosignias31x_bx
mem_size = 131072

[Video]
gfxcard = voodoo3_3500_si_agp

[Input devices]
keyboard_type = keyboard_at
mouse_type = ps2

[Sound]
sndcard = sb16_pnp

[Network]
net_01_link = 0
net_02_link = 0
net_03_link = 0
net_04_link = 0

[Storage controllers]
fdc = none

[Hard disks]
hdd_01_fn = catskull.vhd
hdd_01_ide_channel = 0:0
hdd_01_parameters = 63, 16, 40634, 0, ide
hdd_01_speed = ramdisk
hdd_01_vhd_blocksize = 4096

[Floppy and CD-ROM drives]
cdrom_01_ide_channel = 0:1
cdrom_01_image_path =
cdrom_01_parameters = 1, atapi
cdrom_01_speed = 72
fdd_01_image_history_01 =
fdd_01_type = 35_2hd
fdd_02_type = none

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reply 1 of 3, by SA1988

Posted on Today, 12:51

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You can manually assign the I/O port, dma and irq in device properties of win98.

Reply 2 of 3, by akimmet

Posted on Today, 17:16

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86Box is faithfully emulating the behavior of the ISA bus and PNP.

This is how I normally handle this on both 86Box and real systems with Award BIOS;

In The BIOS, navigate to the "PNP/ISA CONFIGURATION" menu, and set the following:
"PNP OS Installed" to "Yes"
"Resources Controlled By" to "Manual"
"IRQ-5 Assigned to" to "Legacy ISA"
"DMA-1 Assigned to" to "Legacy ISA"
"DMA-5 Assigned to" to "Legacy ISA"

Boot into Windows and uninstall all sound card drivers.

Reboot.

Now you can try installing the drivers again.

If you still run into trouble, you can now attempt to manually assign resources to the sound card. This is found in the Resources tab for the sound card in device manager.

https://flaterco.com/kb/audio/ISA/index.html

Reply 3 of 3, by snowpo

Posted on Today, 18:10

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SA1988 wrote on Today, 12:51:

You can manually assign the I/O port, dma and irq in device properties of win98.

Hi SA1988,
I went to the Resources tab and changed the DMA from 07, which was being used by the printer port, to 05 and the audio started working. Thank you.

akimmet wrote on Today, 17:16:
86Box is faithfully emulating the behavior of the ISA bus and PNP. […]
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86Box is faithfully emulating the behavior of the ISA bus and PNP.

This is how I normally handle this on both 86Box and real systems with Award BIOS;

In The BIOS, navigate to the "PNP/ISA CONFIGURATION" menu, and set the following:
"PNP OS Installed" to "Yes"
"Resources Controlled By" to "Manual"
"IRQ-5 Assigned to" to "Legacy ISA"
"DMA-1 Assigned to" to "Legacy ISA"
"DMA-5 Assigned to" to "Legacy ISA"

Boot into Windows and uninstall all sound card drivers.

Reboot.
.
Now you can try installing the drivers again.

If you still run into trouble, you can now attempt to manually assign resources to the sound card. This is found in the Resources tab for the sound card in device manager.

https://flaterco.com/kb/audio/ISA/index.html

Hi akimnet,
I started your method, but got stuck on uninstalling drivers. After changing the bios settings, my audio didn't work. I found the drivers used by SB16, and deleted them, but Windows wouldn't allow me to delete three. I returned the successfully deleted files back, rebooted, and changed my bios settings back to normal. My audio was working, but my system was behaving choppy (the startup sound was choppy). Applications with sound behaved the same. Rebooting my host system mostly fixed this, but it's still a little choppy. Do you think uninstalling and reinstalling drivers would fix this performance issue? If so, how would I got about fully uninstalling the drivers? If not, are there ways to diagnose the choppy performance? Thank you for your help so far. I've linked my intial bios settings, and the files which didn't delete.

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