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- Installing Sound Blaster Drivers for Windows NT 3.5
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- This readme file provides information on how to install the latest
- Sound Blaster drivers in the Windows NT 3.5 operating system.
-
- The revised drivers include .ACV and .CSP files, as well as CSPMANNT.DLL,
- CSPMANNT.SYS, SB16SND.DLL, SB16SND.SYS, SBAWE32.SYS and SBAWE32.DRV. The
- new wave drivers -- SB16SND.SYS and SBAWE32.SYS -- support Wave, Midi,
- FM, WSS and AUX files. However, the compression and decompression codes
- work only with SB16 cards that have on-board CSP chips.
-
- To install these drivers for different Sound Blaster cards, please read
- one of the the following sections carefully:
-
- (1) SB16 sound card only
- (2) AWE32 or SB32 sound card
- (3) SB16 sound card with Advanced Wave Table Upgrade card
- (4) Advanced Wave Table Upgrade card only
-
- To find out more about the PnP support offered by these drivers, read
- this section:
- (5) Support for Plug and Play cards
-
-
- (1) SB16 SOUND CARD ONLY
- --------------------
- To install the drivers for a SB16 sound card:
-
- 1. Open the Control Panel folder. Double-click the "Drivers" icon.
- Delete any previously installed Sound Blaster drivers.
-
- 2. Insert the diskette that contains the OEMSETUP.INF file into a
- floppy drive.
-
- 3. Choose the "Add" button in the "Drivers" dialog box to add the
- SB16 drivers. The installation program will also install the
- CSPMANNT drivers.
-
- 4. Select the "Unlisted or Updated Driver" option.
-
- 5. You will be prompted to specify the drive and directory where
- the OEMSETUP.INF file is. Type in the letter of the drive
- containing the diskette you inserted ("A:" or "B:") and press
- "ENTER".
-
- 6. Select "Creative Tech. Sound Blaster 16".
-
- 7. Click the "New" button.
-
- 8. At this point, you will be prompted to select the Sound Blaster
- hardware settings like base I/O address, DMA, IRQ and MPU-401 port
- settings. All the .SYS files will be copied into the
- C:\WINNT35\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS directory. The .ACV and .DLL files
- will go into the C:\WINNT35\SYSTEM32 directory.
-
- 9. At the end of the installation, you will be asked to reboot the
- system. Click the "Restart Now" button.
-
-
-
- (2) AWE32 OR SB32 SOUND CARD
- ------------------------
- To install the drivers for an AWE32 or SB32 sound card:
-
- 1. Open the Control Panel folder. Double-click the "Drivers" icon.
- Delete any previously installed Sound Blaster drivers.
-
- 2. Insert the diskette that contains the OEMSETUP.INF file into a
- floppy drive.
-
- 3. Choose the "Add" button in the "Drivers" dialog box to add the
- SB16 drivers. The installation program will also install the
- CSPMANNT drivers.
-
- 4. Select the "Unlisted or Updated Driver" option.
-
- 5. You will be prompted to specify the drive and directory where the
- OEMSETUP.INF file is. Type in the letter of the drive containing
- the diskette you inserted ("A:" or "B:") and press "ENTER".
-
- 6. Select "Creative Tech. Sound Blaster 16".
-
- 7. Click the "New" button.
-
- 8. At this point, you will be prompted to select the Sound Blaster
- hardware settings like base I/O address, DMA, IRQ and MPU-401 port
- settings. All the .SYS files will be copied into the
- C:\WINNT35\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS directory. The .ACV and .DLL files
- will go into the C:\WINNT35\SYSTEM32 directory.
-
- 9. At the end of the installation, you will be asked to reboot your
- system. CLICK THE "Dont' Restart Now" BUTTON AT THIS POINT.
-
- 10.Repeat steps 3 to 5 again.
-
- 11.This time, select the "Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 MIDI Synth"
- option.
-
- 12.At the end of the installation, you will be asked to reboot your
- system. Click the "Restart Now" button.
-
-
- (3) SB16 SOUND CARD WITH ADVANCED WAVE TABLE UPGRADE CARD
- -----------------------------------------------------
- To install the drivers if your system has a SB16 sound card and an
- Advanced Wave Table Upgrade card:
-
- 1. Follow the steps outlined in section (2).
-
-
- (4) ADVANCED WAVE TABLE UPGRADE CARD
- --------------------------------
- To install the drivers for an Advanced Wave Table Upgrade card:
-
- 1. Open the Control Panel folder. Double-click the "Drivers" icon.
- Delete any previously installed Sound Blaster drivers.
-
- 2. Insert the diskette that contains the OEMSETUP.INF file into a
- floppy drive.
-
- 3. Choose the "Add" button in the "Drivers" dialog box to add the
- SB16 drivers. The installation program will also install the
- CSPMANNT drivers.
-
- 4. Select the "Unlisted or Updated Driver" option.
-
- 5. You will be prompted to specify the drive and directory where the
- OEMSETUP.INF file is. Type in the letter of the drive containing
- the diskette you inserted ("A:" or "B:") and press "ENTER".
-
- 6. Select the "Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 MIDI Synth" option.
-
- 7. At the end of the installation, you will be asked to reboot your
- system. Click the "Restart Now" button.
-
-
- (5) SUPPORT FOR PLUG AND PLAY CARDS
- -------------------------------
- These latest drivers also support all Creative Plug and Play (PnP)
- cards, initializing the sound devices in the PnP cards during
- boot-up.
-
- The driver configuration dialog box has been changed to support
- Plug and Play. The dialog box now sports an extra control, Auto
- Configuration, at the bottom. If Auto Configuration is enabled,
- the driver will try to initialize the PnP hardware with the best
- possible configuration of all available choices.
-
- Note: When Auto Configuration is enabled, the Port, IRQ, DMA and
- MPU-401 controls are disabled. When Auto Configuration is
- disabled, these controls are enabled, letting you customize
- your own configuration.
-
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