Yeah, you're trying Sound Blaster on "hard mode" with a Live! on DOS... The card itself can have an IRQ of 10 , 11 or 12. Leave the card pick whatever it wants! However, you need to make sure IRQs 5 or 7 are free for the SB16 emulation. Same goes for DMAs (1 and 5 usually). Reserving them (or setting them to ISA) in the BIOS like you did is the best approach...

Most importantly, please attach pictures to your message instead. This will help a lot! 😉

There is absolutely nothing, zero, nada for DMA settings in the BIOS. Shouldn't that be automatically allocated by the programs anyway? When SBECFG says DMA 1,5 allocated it should be allocated.
With the IRQ all the fiddling around what I can do is I put it in reserved or NOT in this BIOS (it's kind of new as this is already an ATOM CPU based system).

Anyway I can load the card with other IRQs after all if I put it into manual mode eg IRQ 11 worked but the port what it assigns is a weirdo, this DF00, that is on my other machine 0x300. Can't that be the issue?

Hey, you can attach images to the post as attachment.. Hosting on imgbb doesn't work good 🙁
All I can see in your post looks like this:

Gopher666 wrote on 2025-08-21, 07:55:

There is absolutely nothing, zero, nada for DMA settings in the BIOS. Shouldn't that be automatically allocated by the programs anyway? When SBECFG says DMA 1,5 allocated it should be allocated.
With the IRQ all the fiddling around what I can do is I put it in reserved or NOT in this BIOS (it's kind of new as this is already an ATOM CPU based system).

Anyway I can load the card with other IRQs after all if I put it into manual mode eg IRQ 11 worked but the port what it assigns is a weirdo, this DF00, that is on my other machine 0x300. Can't that be the issue?

what are your systems specs? (motherboard/chipset). also none of your pics are displaying, you mentioned an atom cpu , i have an early atom board with an intel 945 chipset which isnt compatible with sound in dos, even if you manage to install the card and it doesnt lock up the system you will have no sound, only option is to use SBEMU instead of soundblaster drivers, though you will lose general midi.

DudeFace wrote on 2025-08-21, 11:26:

(...) only option is to use SBEMU instead of soundblaster drivers, though you will lose general midi.

Not anymore: VSBHDASF: Fork of VSBHDA with Soundfont support

zyga64 wrote on 2025-08-21, 08:00:

Hey, you can attach images to the post as attachment.. Hosting on imgbb doesn't work good 🙁
All I can see in your post looks like this:

Nothing is user friendly these days 😁 Ok I modified it to show the links.