yeah provide your motherboard, whether or not you have PnP OS settings enabled in your BIOS, and provide the commands you are passing any setup utilities, port addresses you are choosing, etc

Yeah, what motherboard do you have? You may need a modified setupds to get it to work properly. If the chipset is too new, you may need to use DSDMA instead of DDMA.

It's a Gateway Tabor III OEM board, and since I've had it, I've had PnP and power management disbaled. I tried enabling PnP as a last ditch effort, which ended up making things worse, so I disabled it again. It's basically a generic i440BX chipset motherboard.

I'd be happy just to get the games working in Windows 98, rather than DOS mode, but for some reason it doesn't even work there anymore, which doesn't make sense because I reset the settings to how they were when I first installed the card.

In Windows, the first thing I would check is IRQ/DMA.

The Yamaha Legacy should be using 'something' like IRQ5 and DMA1 without conflicts. Look and see if any other devices in Device Manager have problems and see if they are trying to use the same resources.

Whatever the setting are write them down, like 220,5,1 you might need them. Windows might have it as something like 240,7,0 for all we know.

Meaning your card is initialized as 220,5,1 and SET BLASTER shows 220,5,1 but Windows is using 240,7,0. Fire up a game and no sound, lockup, whatever.

your SET BLASTER, SETUPDS and Windows need to use these same settings. I fought this for a bit on a SE440BX-2 until I understood what was going on.

Make sure in Pure DOS that SET BLASTER and SETUPDS /S have been to initialize sound card.

Does your motherboard have the SB-Link / PC-PCI header? If it does, or the spot for one, I would consider using it after modifying card/motherboard to use S-IRQ and PC-PCI. It works brilliantly.

The Yamaha Windows Sound should be using something like IRQ 10 or 11 without sharing, hopefully. Might need to change PCI slots.

This really is a great card. Let me know.

I removed an ethernet card that was installed, and it seems to like me now.

I'm content with running DOOM under Windows, as it works now, and I don't want to mess with it any more and risk developing new problems.

And it does have actual MIDI synthesis, which is what I wanted in the first place.

athlon-power wrote:

I removed an ethernet card that was installed, and it seems to like me now.
I'm content with running DOOM under Windows, as it works now, and I don't want to mess with it any more and risk developing new problems.

That once resolved my issue on my Pentium 4 machine as well. Sometimes it's very wise to just make some sacrifices and realize you just can't have it all. 😊