One way to see the list of IRQs the BIOS assigns to cards, is to disable the 'fast' POST tests. Now I do not know which BIOS you are using so i cannot post specific instructions but it isn't that hard to find. After the POST screen, another screen will appear which lists all IRQs, Memory addresses and their assignments. You can get the information from there if you are fast enough. Sometimes you will need to use a PNP DOS Enumerator to assign resources to your card, but I believe setting 'Plug and Play OS' to 'NO' in your BIOS circumvents that. Yes indead, looking in the BIOS messages is a great tool for finding facts for the card.
Creative Labs driver. Creative Labs Sound Card Drivers. This site maintains listings of sound card drivers available on the web, organized by company. Includes links. 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. All of these can be achieved if you installed the proper sound card driver for your Vibra 128 CT4810. That loves old dos game. Driver Creative Labs CT4810.
Strangs thing is: the bios is giving the card IRQ. Now after installing some software from Creative for windows 95 (this has also a part for DOS) it put a line in my autoexec.bat giving yhe card irq 5. Programs like Kings Quest say the can't find my hardware and then giving me full throtle sound uncontrolled! No way to put the sound level low. Has no sound at all, if I install the SB.5 I have to click for IO port (220) and irq (5) is not possible. But windows says 'port not correct'.
Simpler would be DRIVERS:-) but that is utopie i think.. But you have drivers. I don't know the procedure for Ensoniq sound cards, but I believe it is the same as for the SBLi've! That essentially means, there was a secondary driver loaded into Windows for DOS gaming which was used as an emulator.
You could change the IRQs form there, but bare in mind the following:? The Li've!?required TWO IRQs for DOS support. One was the real IRQ which the card was actually using and the second was one kept for the software emulator:? This was either IRQ 5 or 7, because that is what DOS games supported. So the IRQ you are seeing is the real one, but not the one you should configure your DOS games to work with. There should be a way to change the 'fake' IRQ in Windows 95, to your desired setting.
It would then automatically change the options in Autoexec.bat and config.sys to reflect your new settings. Those are the settings that your games should be configuared to use. As fas as volume is concerned, there should be some mixer utilities for DOS in the folder your drivers are located, so you will have to run them and set your desired volume output from there.Message Edited by alexs3d2 on 03-7-200607:03 PM.