DOS sound issues

[EndlessNameless]

I have windows xp and windows 98 dual booting on a laptop that I have. windows xp and 98 both have sound. But when I shutdown into dos mode and try to configure some games, I have no sound. It says that I do not have a sound card or that the sound card is not responding on the ports that I have set. Any ideas? Do I need to load some different drivers for dos? Any ideas would be really appreciated. Thank you.

[Tokai]

Originally Posted by EndlessNameless

I have windows xp and windows 98 dual booting

When you say you boot to DOS - are you still in the Windows environment? i.e.- are you going into the command prompt from Windows 98?

To go into DOS mode proper you need to Shutdown Windows completely - you can shutdown and restart in DOS mode - and if this is what you want - you must load DOS drivers for everything you want to use in DOS. This means DOS drivers for your games etc - this includes mouse, joysticks. You will need an autoexec.bat and a config.sys to load these up.

If you have an autoexec.bat and a config.sys in the root of the Windows 98 partition - (you can read them with Notepad when Windows 98 is up and running) check that they contain instructions for loading your audio. If they do - then you should hear sound when you play the game from within Windows 98. Remember some early DOS games - while okay for Windows 95, required a certain amount of 'tweaking' and patching to run in Windows 98.

And of course some early DOS games will not run at all in XP.

[EndlessNameless]

Originally Posted by Tokai

When you say you boot to DOS - are you still in the Windows environment? i.e.- are you going into the command prompt from Windows 98?

To go into DOS mode proper you need to Shutdown Windows completely - you can shutdown and restart in DOS mode - and if this is what you want - you must load DOS drivers for everything you want to use in DOS. This means DOS drivers for your games etc - this includes mouse, joysticks. You will need an autoexec.bat and a config.sys to load these up.

If you have an autoexec.bat and a config.sys in the root of the Windows 98 partition - (you can read them with Notepad when Windows 98 is up and running) check that they contain instructions for loading your audio. If they do - then you should hear sound when you play the game from within Windows 98. Remember some early DOS games - while okay for Windows 95, required a certain amount of 'tweaking' and patching to run in Windows 98.

And of course some early DOS games will not run at all in XP.

-I do shutdown into dos mode before I run the programs. I did check the config.sys and the autoexec.bat and they were blank. I really am unsure of what to put in these files though. I check online for examples of both a config.sys and autoexec.bat to see what instructions they should contain. I realize that my equipment will differ from what stock files are out there. Any suggestions on what to put in these to make it work. Also I noticed that my mouse driver is not loading in dos. I checked around and it said I needed to put a command in the config.sys file for mouse.sys, but That file does not exist. Any tips would be really appreciated.

Thank you for the response.