Cant load Sound card Driver in Dos for CT4810

GKandRiven

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May 11, 2016
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Hi all I have a Pentium 3 at 1GHz running Windows 98 se that works well with my Creative Labs CT4810 sound card so sound is working good in windows with a Vibra 128 driver I downloaded from the net, the windows install for the sound card put a folder into c:\ called c:\SBPCI that I think are for the Dos drives, with all of these files:

clnutil.dll
clnutl16.dll
clnutl32.dll
iwlang.dll
MT32.exe
SBCFG.exe
SBinit.com
SBlegacy.exe
SBload.exe
SBmixer.exe
SBpci.bin
SBpci.ini
SBsetup.exe
SBtest.exe

but when I boot to Dos with a boot disk and try to run SBinit.com I get an error:

“Sound Blaster PCI Initialization Driver, Ver 5.14
Copyright 1998-1999, Creative Technology LTD, all rights reserved

error: PCI device detect failed; device not found.
PCI audio driver NOT loading”

I get errors very similar to all the exe files in this folder except SBsetup.exe it says “this program cannot be run in dos mode”. My config.sys file for my floppy has:

[menu]
menuitem=SETUP_CD, Start Windows 98 Setup from CD-ROM.
menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support.
menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support.
menudefault=SETUP_CD,30
menucolor=7,0

[SETUP_CD]
device=himem.sys /testmem: off
device=oakcdrom.sys /D: oemcd001
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D: oemcd001
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D: oemcd001

[CD]
device=himem.sys /testmem: off
device=oakcdrom.sys /D: oemcd001
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D: oemcd001
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D: oemcd001

[NOCD]
device=himem.sys /testmem: off

[COMMON]
files=60
buffers=20
device=emm386.exe
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
lastdrive=z

I added to [COMMON] the “device=emm386.exe” and copied EMM386.exe from my c:\windows folder from windows 98 and put it on my floppy root because without emm386 I get an error trying to run SBinit.com that says:

“Sound Blaster PCI Initialization Driver, Ver 5.14
Copyright 1998-1999, Creative Technology LTD, all rights reserved

error: memory manager not detected.
PCI audio driver requires EMM386 or similar
PCI audio driver NOT loading.”

This is my autoexec.bat file on my floppy:

@ECHO OFF
set EXPAND=YES
SET DIRCMD=/O:N
cls
set temp=c:\
set tmp=c:\
path=a:\

IF "%config%"=="NOCD" GOTO QUIT
LH MSCDEX.EXE /D: oemcd001 /L: D

echo.
IF "%config%"=="SETUP_CD" goto AUTOSETUP
GOTO QUIT

:AUTOSETUP
set CDROM=FOO23
FINDCD.EXE
if "%CDROM%"=="FOO23" goto NOCDROM
path=a:\;%CDROM%\
%CDROM%
cd \WIN98
echo.
OEMSETUP.EXE
goto QUIT

:NOCDROM
echo.
echo The Windows 98 Setup files were not found.
echo.

:QUIT

I have tried another driver that I installed in windows that has the same problem I just cant load the dos driver for this sound card, or to play games because when I run eg Gabriel Knight 1’s install program there are no options to use a sound blaster card or any card for sound and music. Is this just a config/autoexec setting or a dos driver needed other than the ones I have tried?

I had to put spaces where there was a ":" and "letter" because this site thought I was putting in an smillie of some sort