Hi Thomas,
it seems possible to get the thing working.
First I started to get the thing working in Win95... not easy and not
possible with the CD-ROM supplied with the soundcard.
The CD is "autorun" and stopped after concluding that my PC is not fast
enough.
Win95 could not handle the installation either... plug and pray @#$%$#@
However I managed to substract the installation and driver files from
the CD... after a lot of trial and error the card finaly worked well in
Win95. This means the card is OK.
Also on the CD was a directory DOS-drivers but packed in .cab files of
which I was not able to open them...
A friend of mine had a CD about one year older and there they were: the
driver and installation files... I copied them but still no luck.
One of the problems is that I don't know how to tell DOS the PCI-slot
portnumber and PCI-port IRQ... because I don't know the PCI-portadress
and the PCI IRQ.
At my friends home we managed to have the soundblastercard working in
DOS, just DOS, no Win95 installed... so it is possible!
I copied Sndscape.ini and went home this evening... no luck the PCI-port
numbers were for his ports... not mine.
At my PC the card is working when I first load Win95 (the SB-card is then
installed by win95, go back by the DOS-prompt ( the SB-card is still
installed) and now the SB-card is using the settings from win95.
So it seems possible to get the SB-card functioning in DOS. ;-> :-)
I tried to find the .ini details in win95, but no luck untill now and my
friend is going into hollydays... so perhaps you have to have a bit more
patience.
If, one day, I have the details I will give them to you plus the
neccessary drivers and thinks like that.
Does ANYONE on the list have ideas on "how to detect the PCIPort number
and IRQ of the used PCI-slot ????"
In the ini file my friend has:
PCIPort=d800 and PCIIRQ=9
Best Regards, Bastiaan
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:58:03 +0000, Thomas Tabler wrote:
> Dear Bastiann:
> Sorry to hear of your woes with Creative Labs equipment.
> The information you sent me on the Sound card sounded identical
> to my version, uninstalled yet. It is the Ensonique Audio PCI
> #046e371000-2. And I haven't looked into it online yet, either.
> Can you look at the PDF files using the DOS version of Adobe
> reader? I hope so, although sometime back I thought there was
> some dif with that and the Win 32 version of Adobe. Nevertheless,
> I could use the PDF.apm from Arachne, although it sort of chops
> off the end of the lines of text sometimes. Any ideas or comments
> would be most appreciated. If this is usable with my hardware
> and DOS, I will be grateful. The other option is almost to call
> long distance to find an older legacy ISA soundcard to use.
The PDF.apm does not function here but I view pdf in win95.
> Yours,
> Thomas Tabler
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