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General Troubleshooting. i.e. This is way too much information.
Config/Autoexec Lines	Port/IRQ/DMA Settings
Set-up	Volume Control
Card Specifications	Notes

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This page shows you the basic layout of each of the Sound Card FAQ pages and what each of them are for. Normally there would be some silly little disclaimer here that basically explains that the final word on how your sound card should be set-up is not ours. Your sound card manufacturer or computer manufacturer will have the best answers for exactly what you need. Oh yeah, the disclaimer ends with: Good Luck! --Origin CS Web Team

Config.sys

This section will have the lines you should put in the CONFIG.SYS file of your SHORTCUT or BOOTDISK. These lines should always be placed before your CD-ROM driver!

Unnecessary lines that appear frequently have been left in, but a side-note should tell you to remove them or leave them in if they will not hurt anything. Sometimes you'll see a phrase like:

"If you see this line rem it out."

What this means is that you should leave the line in your CONFIG.SYS, just place the letters REM at the beginning of the line.

EX:  device=c:\halsnd16\miltoniver.sys
        would become
           REM device=c:\halsnd16\miltoniver.sys

Autoexec.bat

Hi again! This section is alot like the one above, except these lines should be placed into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file of your SHORTCUT or BOOTDISK. Same deal applies about lines we tell you to REM out.

Port / IRQ / DMA Settings

This section should include ways to change IRQ, DMA, and PORT addresses if it is known. These are settings which set up how the card talks to your comptuer. The SET BLASTER line is the best example of this. The A220 is for the PORT address of the card, the I5 refers to the IRQ setting, and the D1 refers to the DMA. Sometimes our games hate certain IRQ settings. The best example of this is IRQ 10, a number of new sound cards (especially PlugnPlay sound cards) come set to IRQ 10. A few of our games will not work properly if the IRQ is set to this, so it comes in handy to know how to change these settings. PlugnPlay cards can usually have their settings changed within the DEVICE MANAGER. Our new (and under construction) section called TOTAL CONTROL will outline how to change your Sound Card's IRQ within Win 95.

If these things are changed by jumpers on the card itseld, we probably won't talk about it much since we can't recommend you change actual hardware settings by yourself if you feel uncomfortable. You should contact either a computer tech or your Sound card manufacturer for further info on this. This section does not include all optional settings for port addresses and the like as the list would have been exhaustive.

* - Note : Unless natively supported by the game, the best configuration should be the highest mode of Sound Blaster compatibility available to this card. This is why the Sound Blaster settings are usually detailed more than other settings that may be natively supported by the card. Sound Blaster is pretty much a standard for DOS games and Sound Blaster compatibility is usually the most stable way to go!

Defaults:
This sub-section should include the normal settings for the sound card, including factory defaults, if they were known. Some less important settings will not be included for the sake of clarity. Smack us if we try to sound too official, okay!
I/O (or PORT)
IRQ
DMA

Set-up

This section should give the optimal, general set-up for the card. Natively supported cards should be used when setting up the game, but non-native support is usually listed here. Obviously this section varies from game-to-game.

What you'll see is a list of the sound cards that you should select within the game's sound setup.

Volume

This section includes information on how to set the volume on certain sound cards. Many sound cards often have different ways of doing this. When possible, more than one solution was given.

Specifications

This section should include the modes available to the Sound Card. Pretty much, it is just a basic outline of what the card is capable of doing.As previously stated, much of the information we have about certain sound cards is second-hand. We aren't the God-Kings of Sound Card knowledge we just compile info on cards as we encounter them. If you know your sound card does something that we don't mention, let us know by e-mail!

Notes

Here you'll find any odd notes about the card that might be of importance. Mainly this is stuff we've encountered from helping customers like you and testing these products with our games. This is the best section for finding out any troubleshooting tips that we have run across in the past.

Questions

Normally you would find the most frequently asked questions that have to do with this sound card. As of right now, that usually has to do with DirectX; but as we figure out what we're leaving out, we'll add more!