Stevenstone93
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I have a custom-made i486DX2/66 rig with a 540 MB Western Digital Caviar hard drive, Sound Blaster 16 (Card Model CT1750), running Windows 3.1.
The drivers appear to load properly and an audio CD plays just fine from both the audio-out in the rear of the card as well as the CD-ROM drive as well, with the Sound Blaster mixer program fully functional within the operating system. However, if I go to the Control Panel to test the operating system's sounds, I only hear a faint "thud", and no proper audio comes through my speakers. The only other program in the operating system that has sound, Tetris, also makes a garbled "thud" noise after clearing a row, instead of a proper chime. Trying to play a WAV file in Sound Blaster's "WAV Editor" comes up with an error message saying among the lines of "The audio driver is currently in use with another program", when no other application is running.
I'm not sure if this is a driver issue or not, but I'm hesitant to reinstall the SB16 drivers due to the Matsushita CD-ROM drive being reliant on the sound card itself to work. I can, however, post a photo of the Autoexec.bat entry for you all to look at. (One thing that confuses me is that the MIDI port is designated as 330 in the OS while it's designated as 220 in the Autoexec.bat file)
Many thanks for your time.
The drivers appear to load properly and an audio CD plays just fine from both the audio-out in the rear of the card as well as the CD-ROM drive as well, with the Sound Blaster mixer program fully functional within the operating system. However, if I go to the Control Panel to test the operating system's sounds, I only hear a faint "thud", and no proper audio comes through my speakers. The only other program in the operating system that has sound, Tetris, also makes a garbled "thud" noise after clearing a row, instead of a proper chime. Trying to play a WAV file in Sound Blaster's "WAV Editor" comes up with an error message saying among the lines of "The audio driver is currently in use with another program", when no other application is running.
I'm not sure if this is a driver issue or not, but I'm hesitant to reinstall the SB16 drivers due to the Matsushita CD-ROM drive being reliant on the sound card itself to work. I can, however, post a photo of the Autoexec.bat entry for you all to look at. (One thing that confuses me is that the MIDI port is designated as 330 in the OS while it's designated as 220 in the Autoexec.bat file)
Many thanks for your time.