I recently got hold of an old Pentium based machine (IBM 340) and started with a blank slate by formatting the disk. I also added a Soundblaster AWE32 which is a value model, specifically the CT3910.
I was having an issue where running Creative's DIAGNOSE.EXE would throw an error when trying to scan for the MIDI address, 0x330 (which is what's configured) and the other option (0x320?) would both fail and I'd get no further. If I ran DIAGNOSE.EXE with the switch /DPMU
which I think stands for Disable MPU then it'd work fine, and all the sound tests (samples & MIDI) would work. Following this I could play games with sound, but even when I let it modify the system startup files I'd have to run through the process again after rebooting.
Given that the MPU should be enabled according to the jumpers I removed and added the jumper again to test for a bad connection. Now DIAGNOSE.EXE no longer fails and doesn't need the /DMPU
switch, but I still don't get MIDI music in games until I run it.
I can only assume that the program is doing some initialisation on the card that's making it subsequently work; even with the correct settings and calls (including DIAGNOSE /S
) in my autoexec.bat I can't get music in games until I run the program manually and in full.
MIDI In Windows 3.1 does work without running it, and I believe this is because it's using Creative drivers. Does anyone know what I need to do to have this card initialised correctly on startup?