Audio Plus 6400 Plug aNd Play V.3 Q&A
Audio Plus 6400 Plug aNd Play V.3 Q&A
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I have a Zoltrix Audio Plus 6400 PnP V.3 sound card which is causing conflicts with several other cards already installed in my desktop. How do I change the settings to values that will not conflict?
The Audio Plus 6400 PnP V.3 sound device is a fully Plug-N-Play device. Windows 95 can detect its available resources and allocate them on-the-fly in the installation sequence. In some rare cases, however, resource conflict could occur and it is flagged by the yellow exclamation mark shown at the Device Manager of the Windows 95.
To resolve the conflict, click on the SYSTEM icon in the Control Panel
folder and choose Device Manager. From Device Manager, double click the
"Sound, video and game controller" category and the list of installed devices
will be displayed. Double click on the device with yellow exclamation mark.
Choose Resources. Determine the conflict cause thru the hints shown in
the "Conflicting device lists". Uncheck the box label Use automatic
settings and then change the resource (e.g. I/O address, DMA, IRQ)
accordingly. The resource setting will be reconfigured.
How do I get sound to work in DOS games?
The audio device's configuration is valid in both Windows 95 and dos box. The majority of the audio applications should run fine in DOS box. It was found, however, that certain soundblaster games could launch from dos box but failed to produce digital sound or FM music. These games could not use the pre-assigned resources but intead expect the popular soundblaster settings,i.e., IRQ=5 DMA=1 I/O=220h. As a result, the resource mismatch causes the problem. To correct it, make sure the games' setting match the assignment shown at Device Manager. To find out what resources are currently assigned to the sound card, proceed to open the properties box associated with the "OPTi Plug-N-Play Sound System" (Control Panel / Device Manager, under "Sound, video and game controller" category) and select the Resource tab. The third I/O Address range in the Resources box is used for DOS games. The first Direct Memory Access is used for playback. We recommend you select the following resources: Input/Output Range: 220 Interrupt request: 5 or 7 Direct Memory Access: 0 or 1 Choose these resources as appropriate and select OK. The Device Manager will dynamically configure the hardware to use the resources you've selected. At this point, you may setup your DOS game with the settings which you have just chosen.
Some DOS games also require that the Set Blaster statement is added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT (AUTOEXEC.DOS).
Following is the syntax to the statement:
SET BLASTER=A2x0 Iy Dz T4
Example:
If your settings are address 220, IRQ 5, DMA 1, add the following to your AUTOEXEC.BAT (AUTOEXEC.DOS):
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
