SB Emulation in MS-DOS/Windows 98 SE B-10
Use the Save button to save the settings for the next session.
SBESET.EXE
Use SBESET.EXE to manually configure SB resources or disable SB Emulation. By
default, SB Emulation in DOS follows the Windows settings. For example, if you
disable SB Emulation in Windows, in the next boot to DOS, SB Emulation in DOS
disabled. Under rare circumstances you may need to manually reconfigure DOS SB
Emulation, for example, if there is conflict in DOS before it can boot to Windows.
SBESET.EXE is run from the command line.
To set SBESET values in the command line:
At the DOS prompt, type the
SBESET
command in a single line. Its syntax is
SBESET [-A
xxx
] [-I
x
] [-D
x
] [-H
x
] [-P
xxx
] [-d
x
] [-w
x
]
where square brackets [ ] denote optional parameters, and
This
Parameter
Specifies
-A
xxx
SB interface’s base I/O address.
-I
x
IRQ line used by the audio interface.
-D
x
First DMA channel used by the audio interface.
-H
x
Second DMA channel used by the audio interface.
-P
xxx
MPU-401 UART interface’s base I/O address.
-d
x
SB Emulation mode. For
x,
1 is Off, 0 is On.
-w
x
Set
x
to 1 to use the Windows-assigned resource configuration.
Set
x
to 0 to use (your) user-assigned resource configuration.
An example of an SBESET command is
SBESET -A240 -I5 -D3 -w0
which corresponds to “set the SB interface’s base I/O address to 240, the IRQ line
used by the audio interface to 5, the First DMA channel used by the audio interface
to 3, and use the Windows-assigned resource configuration”.
Settings” on page B-3 for a list
of the possible values.