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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 22:46:18 -0000, Neil McDougall wrote:
>
>....It came with an internal sound system.
>
>The internal sound system (listed by Windows Device Manager as a CMI8330/C3D
>Audio Adapter, listed 4 times under 'Other Devices') is preventing DOS
>programs from detecting the SBLive's SB16 emulation, wether it be through
>plain DOS or through a DOS box in windows.  Every single DOS program refuses
>to detect the prescence of a soundcard at all, and there's nothing in the
>BIOS to disable this rogue sound system.  Jumpers there may be, but finding
>them is going to be difficult without a motherboard manual (see below)!

I once had (before I bought it recently) a board with a CMI8338 onboard
"card" (don't wanna call it card) too. You will need to run an install.exe
file from the disk (or CD). I just checked mine (forgot to give it to the
one who bought it, oops :) and found DOS programs to initiate the "card".
Check yours, since mine won't work with yours. You'll find them on your
mainboard CD, but I see below you have none. :-(

>Now, due to the somewhat rushed nature of the repair, as well as the cascade
>of failures (it was originally a HDD failure that sent it in for repairs,
>but then everything else mysteriously died), and the added fact of my
>employers pestering the shop, the shop didn't include a new motherboar
>manual or driver CD.  I can't disable the CMI audio adapter, there's no way
>to circumvent it, there's no way to change the way DOS programs behave, so
>I'm trying to use as many Windows programs as possible (but GP2 sucks
>without sound, and most Windows emulators are generally slower than their
>DOS equivalents).

If you can name your board you will find the drivers on the internet!

>MY REQUEST
>
>I'm looking for a Windows program (or whatever) that'll take sound from a
>program running in a DOS box and shunt the sound output to DirectSound,
>letting me hear what's going on with my DOS programs.  Most of the DOS stuff
>I have will barely stretch my CPU, so I should have more than enough CPU
>power to spare with something like this beavering away in the background.

I don't think this exists. In a DOS box you might use the Windows Sound
System by setting the environment variable (SET BLASTER=...) in your
autoexec.bat to the values you find in the system panel/device manager under
"Audio- video- gamecontroler", but I recomment the solution to get the DOS
drivers to have sound under plain DOS too. You only need the board's name,
see boot display (hit "pause" to write down) and search the manufacturer's
homepage.

Andreas

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