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My machine: Lenovo Benyue 2000, the motherboard integrates sound card,
It seems to be VIA AC97 Audio Controller (WDM)

I can't find the driver installation under Dos, does anyone have it? Thank you...

In addition, many of the software here cannot be downloaded, "Open Attachment" just downloads a forum link.？？

Thank you!

It's not obvious here. VIA's AC97 seems to have many models, and it's not known whether the drivers are universal. It can be certain that there are DOS drivers, so don't worry. You can either take apart the machine to look at the chip or go to the VIA website to download and try.

http://www.via.com.tw

Downloaded several, but none worked. Is it because of "integrated on the motherboard"?

Did you download the wrong one? I helped you download it back, come and try it

Still no good, I'm desperate.

The chip detection is passed. The driver should definitely be installed successfully, right? Your problem might be that there's no sound.

Now motherboards don't have ISA anymore. Remember to select MANUAL in the PCI PNP setting menu in BIOS, and then change IRQ5 and 7 to ISA (although actually there are no ISAs on your motherboard at all). But the DOS driver seems to be virtualized as an ISA device. Note that your actual sound card's IRQ might not be 5 or 7. For example, it's very likely 10. This is not contradictory. When the sound card initializes, it will find your actual IRQ10 sound card, but it might need to map to IRQ5 or 7 to be compatible with DOS. So set IRQ5 and 7 in BIOS for ISA use to avoid being PNP to a certain PCI device. It might be effective. You can give it a try. I'm not sure either. I'm thinking that the DOS emulation driver of the PCI sound card needs the real ISA bus resources of the motherboard to support. That is, there must be both PCI + ISA slots on your motherboard to possibly have sound. All-PCI motherboards can't produce sound. In short, I've been struggling with no sound on my machine for several months.

Originally posted by baby15500 at 2005-12-19 06:00 AM:
... That is to say, your motherboard must have both PCI + ISA slots to possibly produce sound. Motherboards with only PCI slots cannot produce sound...

It doesn't seem to be the case. The motherboard of my new computer has no ISA slots at all, all are PCI slots (I originally had an extra ISA sound card, but unfortunately there are no ISA slots on this computer, so it cannot be used). But the PCI sound card above can produce sound through DOS drivers, automatically simulating SB16 sound card. Usually, there are music and sound effects. If there is no sound, check the sound card driver, BLASTER environment variable and whether the sound settings of the software are correct.

That is probably due to the chipset of my A7N8X motherboard? I'm not sure, it's an NFORCE2 chip.
Or I strongly suspect it's an issue with EMM386.

I used to use an SB128D PCI before. This is a 5.1 DIGITAL one, that is, a CT5880 chip. It has its own DOS driver. After installing the 98 driver, it will automatically install the SB16 EMU. But DOS software can't make sound. It's the same in Windows and DOS, can't make sound. Later, I changed to an AUDIGY2, and it's the same, can't make sound. The driver is correct, no problems at all. The environment is also set up automatically, no problems found. It prompts that the sound card driver is successfully loaded, and you can start MIXERSET to set the volume. But when using the DIAGNOSE detection program, it prompts that the sound card is not found. Of course, DOS software games can't detect the sound card either. The reason is unknown. I suspect it's the chipset because my motherboard can't install EMM386, it prompts that the address can't be paged, the installation fails, there are only dozens of KB of UMB, can't create EMS. And the DOS driver of Creative's PCI sound card must require you to have EMM386 to install, not necessarily need EMS. As long as you add the NOEMS parameter after EMM386.EXE, the startup no longer prompts the address paging error. Without EMS memory, the sound card driver can also be installed, as long as EMM386 is loaded. I strongly suspect the problem is here. Can't test anymore. And on my other motherboards that have ISA slots, the on-board PCI sound card can make sound.

Thanks to everyone upstairs!
It seems my machine can't make sound, so I need to get a sound card if I get the chance.

Isn't it on your motherboard driver disk?

I don't have a driver disk.