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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?

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.

When i install the drivers:

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.

Google came up with complete trash.

Any help?

P.S. I use Google all the time!

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

Thank you! *NOT

I had to restore my snapshot.

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.

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?

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

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