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Understanding the Installation Program in Windows 95/98: Sound Blaster Live! Value
Sound Card User's Guide
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Understanding the Installation Program in Windows 95/98: Sound
Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide
Overview • The
AUTOEXEC.BAT File Settings • The CONFIG.SYS File
Settings
The installation program modifies your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
files.
The installation program adds the following statements to the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
The first two statements set up the environment variables for your
audio card. For an explanation of the variables, see "Understanding
the Environment Variables" in the section "Using the Sound Card".
The third statement runs the SBEINIT.COM driver. SBEINIT.COM is the
SB Live! MS-DOS driver. It is required for the SB Live! Value card to function properly
under MS-DOS mode. The syntax for the statement is as follows:
<SB Live! path>\SBEINIT.COM
SBEINIT.COM requires that the HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE files are
loaded. If needed, the installation program adds the necessary HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE
lines to your CONFIG.SYS file, creating the file if it is not present.
On the rare occasion a program does not work with expanded memory, simply add the NOEMS
parameter to your memory manager. For example:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
if C:\WINDOWS is your Windows directory.
You may load this driver into high memory in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file,
even though the default is not. For example:
LOADHIGH=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
Do not remove the memory manager altogether. Do not attempt to load
SBEINIT.COM into high memory when using the NOEMS option if SBEINIT.COM fails to run
SBELOAD.EXE or SBECFG.EXE.
In the rare case that an MS-DOS game will not work with a memory
manager, you will not be able to use the SB Live! Value card with the game.
The installation program adds the following statements to the
CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
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