Onboard sound on MSI Pro2A board problem

Hello all~

I don't know what's up with this onboard sound. I upgraded from Celeron533 /w noname board(onboard sound,too) and I never had this problem before. Onboard sound works perfectly in Win98SE, but in DOS mode there is no sound. I setup all the parameter correctly: I turned Legacy sound & SB emulation in BIOS and had 'viasound.com' &'set blaster= blah' in autoexec. Funny thing is I got sound in first few days but not anymore after that!!! I haven't changed anything. I even changed all settting back to 'failsafe setting' in BIOS without any overclocking but sound is no more in DOS. In win98se it stil works fine. Anyone has similiar problem? I almost give up and looking for SB Live value http://dev.www.sharkyforums.forums.relay.cool/

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Cooking Tbird900@1030 at 35C very stable.
MSI K7T Pro2A
Maxtor 45G -5400rpm
Generic TNT2 M64
noname 2x64MB SDRAM
and hairdryer GlobalWin Fop38 at 6800rpm.

hmm.. I am downloading 686A southbridge sound driver from viatech.com. I know my board use 686B which support ATA100 but I assume that they use same audio codec(AC97). Anyone knows for sure?

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Cooking Tbird900@1030 at 35C very stable.
MSI K7T Pro2A
Maxtor 45G -5400rpm
Generic TNT2 M64
noname 2x64MB SDRAM
and hairdryer GlobalWin Fop38 at 6800rpm.

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[This message has been edited by dighn (edited December 20, 2000).]

Why would you use that cheap onboard sound anyway. A SB Live Value is only like $40 now-a-days. Trust me, you'll be much happier.

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~ParrotHead
"I'll take The Rapists for 800"
"Mr. Connery that is Therapists"
"Suck it Trebek"

........yeah, I guess you are right! I am getting SB512. Is this good? I don't know what's different from SB Live value. I hope there is no differences..

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Cooking Tbird900@1030 at 35C very stable.
MSI K7T Pro2A
Maxtor 45G -5400rpm
Generic TNT2 M64
noname 2x64MB SDRAM
and hairdryer GlobalWin Fop38 at 6800rpm.