help install dos drivers please

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April 28th, 2001, 11:05 AM
mrpotatoz

help install dos drivers please

i have an old packard bell PB 600 motherboard and the sound card that came with that system. i have downloaded the dos/win 3.1 driver as well as the win 95 driver. i have formatted the c drive and have loaded the necessary files onto a floppy to use as a boot disk. how do i configure/load the dos drivers for the sound card on boot up? please help. the zip files i downloaded do not have instructions, just file which i assume include the appropriate drivers. please keep in mind the PB system does not have windows, just dos (win 98 version). thank you!
April 28th, 2001, 09:24 PM
Lycia

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Originally posted by mrpotatoz:
i have an old packard bell PB 600 motherboard and the sound card that came with that system. i have downloaded the dos/win 3.1 driver as well as the win 95 driver. i have formatted the c drive and have loaded the necessary files onto a floppy to use as a boot disk. how do i configure/load the dos drivers for the sound card on boot up? please help. the zip files i downloaded do not have instructions, just file which i assume include the appropriate drivers. please keep in mind the PB system does not have windows, just dos (win 98 version). thank you!

Win98 version IS windows. Is the sound card installed under windows??
April 29th, 2001, 11:17 PM
tombum

Could you give us a list of the files contained in the downloaded ZIP?
April 30th, 2001, 07:38 AM
Platypus

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Originally posted by Lycia:
Win98 version IS windows. Is the sound card installed under windows??

I think mrpotatoz means the system has the DOS7 from a Win98 installation loaded. A copy of DOS 6x from somewhere would be better if you just want to use it as a DOS system, DOS7 is a bit of a memory hog.

What type of sound card is it, and what do you want to use it for?

For example, to just play some older DOS games, some will use a Sound Blaster compatible card directly, without any drivers loaded.

As asked above, have you unzipped the DOS/WIN 3.1 file? In it there should be an INSTALL.EXE or SETUP.EXE program to run which will set it all up, or maybe a batch file like INSTALL.BAT