Want to talk about your hardware setup? Brag about your super-machine's layout? Pretend you know a lot about computers? You can do all that and more in this forum.
First of all, you should NEVER EVER format your HD, even if you need to. If you would do that again, it would damage your soundcard even furter and I would be P.O.ed! :Angry: So don't do it!
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Too bad everything cannot be DOS-operated.
Oh well.
Well, since that post, I formatted again 3 times. He he. Its a soundblaster 16 and AWE, but its supposed to have joystick compatibility, yet I cant use my joystick!
Well, since that post, I formatted again 3 times. He he. Its a soundblaster 16 and AWE, but its supposed to have joystick compatibility, yet I cant use my joystick!
Kazer0 wrote:Well, since that post, I formatted again 3 times. He he. Its a soundblaster 16 and AWE, but its supposed to have joystick compatibility, yet I cant use my joystick!
Didnt the AWE start with the SB32 model? So is it an AWE or a SB16?
Kazer0 wrote:No its SB16 with AWE. ill take a screen of the settings if I can find them and they set up right this time... nm I wont, no wher to host the picture.
I dint change any jumpers, so why wouldn't it work now?
The AWE32 is a soundblaster with wavetable built in. So windows shows it as a soundblaster 16 in the setup, plus the awe crap.
Open your computer, find the sound card, make a note its model number and if it has any jumpers (make a note of the pins that are shorted).
Goto the website of the maker and d/l the software for the OS your using, d/l the pdf manual if available (should be)
Make sure that the bios of your computer is setup to accept plug n play devices.
make a dir called c:\drivers\creative and dump your win9x drivers there and unzip them
In windows 9x remove all drivers for any sound card.
Reboot
Find your windows CD
When you boot it should ask you for drivers, direct it to the directory you made and it should load multiple drivers. One for sb16, one for AWE (wavetable), one for joystick port, probably loads a driver for IDE port also. it might need some windows files thats what the windows CD is for.
Make sure there are no conflicts in irq or ports (check the manual you downloaded and reference jumper settings you wrote down)
This will have setup your card for windows 9x
If your doing just dos , or dos and windows 3.x you should have installed the dos/win3x drivers (basically you unzip those to numerous disks and install manually at the dos prompt)
Normally the SB16 is on port 220 Irq 5 or 7 dma 1
Wavetable should be at port 330 or 300
Gameport maybe port 201
Problems can come up if you have the sb ports setup to some wierd port, most older games wont recognize the soundcard if your using anything above irq 9 , above dma 1, or some wierd port.
This is assuming you dont have a conflict in dma, irq, or port. Windows would tell you if you did. And should be corrected.
But im on windows XP now, there are no drivers on creatives wbsite, and I will not go inside my pc. last time i did that, I broke it. ill open all my computers but this one.
I tried installing gameport, but that didn't work.
Kazer0 wrote:But im on windows XP now, there are no drivers on creatives wbsite, and I will not go inside my pc. last time i did that, I broke it. ill open all my computers but this one.
I tried installing gameport, but that didn't work.
Go pay somebody who knows what they are doing to fix it since you dont take advice and cant open the case.
