No Sound in Windows 3.1 Guest

Bryan1998 · Post by **Bryan1998** » 25. Nov 2010, 06:08

Hi, there is no sound in my Windows 3.1 VM. I have the Soundblaster 16 selected, but nothing happens. I go to sound, test is grayed out.

Any help?

Post by **Perryg** » 25. Nov 2010, 15:33

Windows 3.1 is not an officially supported guest. That being said the SB16 is the only sound adapter that will work on 3.1
You probably do not have an sound driver installed in Windows and will need to find a DOS sound driver for soundblaster.

Bryan1998 · Post by **Bryan1998** » 25. Nov 2010, 17:59

When i install the drivers:

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Post by **Perryg** » 25. Nov 2010, 18:07

Yup that was a common problem back then.

You need to learn how to use google bryan. Put installing sb16 in windows 3.1 in a google search and look for your answer.

Bryan1998 · Post by **Bryan1998** » 25. Nov 2010, 18:22

Google came up with complete trash.

Any help?

P.S. I use Google all the time!

Post by **Perryg** » 25. Nov 2010, 18:45

Did you try this link http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.p ... 9aa8693e35 that was given?
Do you have the SB16 DOS drivers available?

Bryan1998 · Post by **Bryan1998** » 25. Nov 2010, 18:52

Perryg wrote:Did you try this link http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.p ... 9aa8693e35 that was given?
Do you have the SB16 DOS drivers available?

Yes i have sbbasic.exe and it came up with that error. Can't even install...

Post by **Perryg** » 25. Nov 2010, 18:59

OK I am not going to do a DOS tutorial but your problem stems from not having the memory setup properly. You need to edit the autoexec.bat and configure it to use upper memory and loadhi as much as you can. DOS had a real problem with memory allocation in Windows, Sometimes it was the mouse drivers that put it over the top and any TSR (terminate and stay ready) program used too much lower memory for there to be enough free to do normal installs.

Honestly this has nothing to do with VirtualBox. This is the way it was on metal way back when.

Bryan1998 · Post by **Bryan1998** » 25. Nov 2010, 19:04

How to do that? I run in standard mode. Dos 7.10 is not configured to use UMB or EMB.

Post by **Perryg** » 25. Nov 2010, 19:13

Google dos memory in autoexec.bat
Google dos memory in config.sys

Bryan1998 · Post by **Bryan1998** » 25. Nov 2010, 19:23

Now it won't let me run in standard. It also didn't help.

Thank you! *NOT

I had to restore my snapshot.

Post by **Perryg** » 25. Nov 2010, 19:29

OK I'm done. This has nothing to do with VirtualBox. You have to learn how to configure it if you want to use it.

Bryan1998 · Post by **Bryan1998** » 26. Nov 2010, 03:32

Perryg wrote:OK I'm done. This has nothing to do with VirtualBox. You have to learn how to configure it if you want to use it.

Umm...? Can anybody please help me?

Bryan1998 · Post by **Bryan1998** » 26. Nov 2010, 04:58

It does this in VPC '07 also (the memory error).

Post by **Perryg** » 26. Nov 2010, 05:21

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