Can you tell us rest of the hardware you are using?

Kamerat wrote:

Can you tell us rest of the hardware you are using?

ASUS P5P800-VM
ATI Radeon 9600 PRO
512MB DDR 400
80GB Seagate PATA drive.
Latest bios flashed and parallel and serial ports, onboard video and onboard audio disabled for freeing up resources.

Thank you for your attention.

Maybe try to reserve IRQ 5 for legacy devices in your BIOS. Does you games give you any kind of error messages or are they just silent?

You likely will not get it to work on that 865 chipset. I played around with Dos audio on my P4P800 Dlx,
the only card that worked well was an Aureal Vortex 2.

Sblive dos emulation does not run without EMM386 which causes issues with games that don't like Emm386.

A 775 Mobo might not work well with SB16 emu is my guess. Or like Kamerat said maybe theres an IRQ setting in BIOS.

I will check it out, thank you all for the answers. 😀

EDIT:
I set the IRQ 5 to manually and after SBEINIT.COM was executed in startup of Dos Mode i run sbeset -? and here is the output

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10                              [ Windows Assigned ]                                
11                SBPort : 0220  IRQ : 05   LoDMA : 01  HiDMA : 05  
12                  MPUPort: 0330  JoyPort: 0200  OPLPort : 0388          
13                              SB Emulation: TRUE		 
14                              JoyEnable   : TRUE	

I don't think I've ever heard of a case where someone has gotten this to work just by reserving an IRQ in the BIOS. As noted above, SB16 emulation in MS-DOS mode requires specific chipset features that your motherboard probably lacks. You should still be able to get sound in DOS games while Windows 98 is running, however.

Imperious wrote:

Sblive dos emulation does not run without EMM386 which causes issues with games that don't like Emm386.

The only game that is really worth considering in that regard is Ultima 7.

Jorpho wrote:

I don't think I've ever heard of a case where someone has gotten this to work just by reserving an IRQ in the BIOS. As noted above, SB16 emulation in MS-DOS mode requires specific chipset features that your motherboard probably lacks. You should still be able to get sound in DOS games while Windows 98 is running, however.

Imperious wrote:

Sblive dos emulation does not run without EMM386 which causes issues with games that don't like Emm386.

The only game that is really worth considering in that regard is Ultima 7.

Even on windows i cannot have sound playing dos games.
I'm trying with Duke Nukem 3D, both Windows 98 and DOS mode i cannot have sound, note that the SB16 Emulation is shown on device manager and the resources are the same that sbeset has shown.

Imperious wrote:

You likely will not get it to work on that 865 chipset. I played around with Dos audio on my P4P800 Dlx,
the only card that worked well was an Aureal Vortex 2.

Sblive dos emulation does not run without EMM386 which causes issues with games that don't like Emm386.

I'm using a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS on my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe (i875, just a "turbo" version of the i865) with sound in real DOS. I noticed that the SBINIT detected an IRQ of 255 in some PCI slots, didn't test much as the AUDIGY12 patch (Audigy 2 doesn't have it's own DOS drivers) woldn't load then. With a PCI IRQ of 3 things are working. Maybe the thread starter should try the different sound outputs of the card if no error message shows up when the TSR or game loads.

Kamerat wrote:

Imperious wrote:

You likely will not get it to work on that 865 chipset. I played around with Dos audio on my P4P800 Dlx,
the only card that worked well was an Aureal Vortex 2.

Sblive dos emulation does not run without EMM386 which causes issues with games that don't like Emm386.

I'm using a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS on my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe (i875, just a "turbo" version of the i865) with sound in real DOS. I noticed that the SBINIT detected an IRQ of 255 in some PCI slots, didn't test much as the AUDIGY12 patch (Audigy 2 doesn't have it's own DOS drivers) woldn't load then. With a PCI IRQ of 3 things are working. Maybe the thread starter should try the different sound outputs of the card if no error message shows up when the TSR or game loads.

Duke3D setup says that the card isn't responding and tne settings on duke3d are the same that sbeset output.

.legaCy wrote:

Kamerat wrote:

Imperious wrote:

You likely will not get it to work on that 865 chipset. I played around with Dos audio on my P4P800 Dlx,
the only card that worked well was an Aureal Vortex 2.

Sblive dos emulation does not run without EMM386 which causes issues with games that don't like Emm386.

I'm using a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS on my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe (i875, just a "turbo" version of the i865) with sound in real DOS. I noticed that the SBINIT detected an IRQ of 255 in some PCI slots, didn't test much as the AUDIGY12 patch (Audigy 2 doesn't have it's own DOS drivers) woldn't load then. With a PCI IRQ of 3 things are working. Maybe the thread starter should try the different sound outputs of the card if no error message shows up when the TSR or game loads.

Duke3D setup says that the card isn't responding and tne settings on duke3d are the same that sbeset output.

Duke Nukem 3D a good indication of you sound card works in DOS or not. Have you tried the card in different PCI slots?

.legaCy wrote:

I'm trying with Duke Nukem 3D, both Windows 98 and DOS mode i cannot have sound, note that the SB16 Emulation is shown on device manager and the resources are the same that sbeset has shown.

Doesn't the setup utility for DN3D have some kind of sound test? Does it work there?

Try a simpler utility like SETBLAST.
Re: get no sound in MS-dos, but get it in win98SE

I should also probably point out that the Windows source ports for DN3D are probably the best way to play the game.

(By the way, SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS is very strange. You should probably change that to SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP.)

Jorpho wrote:

Doesn't the setup utility for DN3D have some kind of sound test? Does it work there? […]
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.legaCy wrote:

I'm trying with Duke Nukem 3D, both Windows 98 and DOS mode i cannot have sound, note that the SB16 Emulation is shown on device manager and the resources are the same that sbeset has shown.

Doesn't the setup utility for DN3D have some kind of sound test? Does it work there?

Try a simpler utility like SETBLAST.
Re: get no sound in MS-dos, but get it in win98SE

I should also probably point out that the Windows source ports for DN3D are probably the best way to play the game.

(By the way, SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS is very strange. You should probably change that to SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP.)

Yes its on dn3d setup utility that the error about the card not responding.
The audio on win98 games works flawless.
Its possible that some of the card components be damaged?

I will have less trouble by using one Creative Audigy 2 ZS on DOS compatibilty?

I was also setting up SB16 emulation this week and here's what worked for me.

Reserve IRQ5 for Legacy/ISA in the BIOS
PNP OS = NO in the BIOS (may not be necessary)
Disable all COM/LPT ports in the BIOS (may not be necessary)
Install SB Liveware 3.0 CD from Vogons (Several fellow Vogons recommended that driver for the best compatibility)

Everything worked for me beautifully. The only problem I'm having is with DOS emulation sounding a bit noisy/distorted, but it works. Win98 works perfect!