Greetings and salutations! I do hope somebody will be able to help me out here.

Its been over 10 years since I played around in real dos, and recently aquired an acient laptop; a grand prize I assure you as I can play 90% of all my old abandonware (of which I legally a massive amount, going back to the early 80's o.o)

Anyway the nit and gritty is this. The laptop is an old AT&T Globalyst 250.

Only issue I'm having is it has a Crystal Media 4231 sound chip (which is sound blaster compatible in someway accourd to the windows I deleted off of it).

Now how the hell do I make dos reconize its existance? set blaster isn't seeming to cut the mustard at the moment.


Any ideas?

Moved to the right forum.

Okay... been a long time since I played with DOS myself, BUT... I do remember that without proper drivers you aren't going to get a squeak out of that soundcard. So get the proper dos drivers for the card and you are in for easy setup with sound. Mainly what happens is that Autoexec.bat and config.sys gets updated automatically once you run the driver setup.

Then if you need to know what IRQ and DMA to set your soundcard settings to then you go and check there and that's the basic of it.

If you do encounter problems with sound then your best bet is to check out the website for the soundcard to get help on what you should put to load the drivers.

Well im off to get some dinner, but the time i have been surfing the web i have maybe found this:

http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/66/66506.htm

or this:

http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/26/26881.htm

I dont know if this is the right link/sound drivers

Try this site:

www.driverguide.com

Lots of old drivers in there, but not all of them work.